Updates and New Layout and Logo

Here’s the new layout for this blog, featuring a logo we’ll be using until a) somebody (not me) draws something better or b) I get some production photos that will work better. Anyone receiving a prospectus will recognize the logo from the cover page. Also, it will be featured on the still-somber-looking website shortly to lighten up the mood over there.

A few updates on how pre-production is going:

• I finished Draft 7 (read: Draft 20-something) of the script and cut out several locations that would have driven the costs way up (lighting an entire hallway is just painful). One of my favorite characters just barely escaped being removed for budgetary reasons… I spared her only after being reminded by a friend that I wrote the script for these characters in the first place.
• Location scouting will begin as soon as I get back into New York later this week. Since I cut out a few places, I’m hoping I can find all the locations I need in one building! (If you know a hospital or clinic with an unused wing in the NYC area, leave a comment or e-mail me at talia.mazzarella@nyu.edu).
• The website will have a new layout later this week with a lighter, friendly feel.
• Prospectuses are being mailed daily to reach out to people that might not know about the production or how they can help. Of course, anybody reading this already knows they can make a tax-deductible donation over on our website, right?

I’m also starting to do more concept drawings, sketch some rough storyboards, and will be meeting with my lovely producer Amanda to get the ball rolling on several other pre-production projects.

If you’re looking for me, I’ll probably be one of those jerks at the Astor Place Starbucks who is hunched over a screenplay or doodling camera moves on napkins.

At least I’m not one of those pretentious ones at Think Cafe. (Ok, I do go there for my lit. papers… which might be worse.)