Wow. The stuff's really looking good now. I really thought I was going to have a lot of problems editing my work because while we were on the set, I had no storyboards usually and had to just wing the day from memory. Hence, I drove a lot of crew members crazy when, just as we were about to leave a location, I’d suddenly remember one more shot we had to get to complete the scene. But I did forget some things and was worried because of it. But in editing, I see we usually have enough to get by just fine. Some things could be a little smoother here or there but not by much. It really looks good.
I think I have a lot of thanks to give to my parents camcorder. From the day they brought it home (I was about fourteen? Younger maybe? Eleven?), I was using it. The first night they got it I took it upstairs and made an animation with it using a clay Jabba the Hut I had made sometime before and my Star Wars figures. I had one of Jabba’s guards cut a clay E.T.’s head in two - ketchup blood spilling out everywhere. I still to this day make video-animations by pressing the record button on and off real fast for each frame of my movie. It’s a little choppy but people forgive it. But as I was saying, I made so many movies with that camcorder and always had to shoot in sequential order because I couldn’t edit my work film-style (where you just shoot out entire locations without concern to chronological order edit them together properly later). I had to do what is called "in-camera" editing. But doing that so often forced me to visualize an entire project before beginning it so I knew what had to come next to make the whole piece flow. Having that experience in my head helped me do that on the set of The Pig Farm and hence helped me to avoid missing anything in the helter-skelter-ness of my production.
I still need a New Jersey Bar though close to Manhattan. The New Jersey film commission sent me some faxes but I haven’t called them yet… and Thanksgiving is Thursday! I’m in trouble again as usual. I gotta make those calls tomorrow. And I need to fill out my corporate papers still! I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but I finally got incorporated. That means I got a black box with the name ANGRY HAM PICTURES INC. sent to me. But inside it are forms and words in a language that looks like english but doesn’t read like it. I gotta get my lawyer on the phone also. Plus finish adding up my receipts. All this while working all day and editing all night (not to mention the fact that besides all the work I’ve been doing, I really am a lazy bastard and lay around doing nothing any chance I can get).
Plus I got two actors who worked on the movie threatening my life if I don’t provide them tape for their reels soon and I’m still trying to get the movie just edited before I get kicked out of Dow Jones! Lots of fun. This would all make a great book someday if it wasn’t already offered here on the net for free. Who knows, maybe it still will. The scenes really are looking pretty. I’m starting to overcome the reality side of me that says this film will never see theatrical distribution just on odds alone… the goods are starting to shine through so powerfully, I think The Pig Farm may be one of those few break-out films. Time will tell I guess. Adios for now compadres.