This post is kind of like one of those lame year-end Christmas letters that people send out. So, if you’re into it, read it, otherwise skip it…
Rough cut is done. Everything came together really well. Now we are going to schedule a couple days of shooting for inserts/reshoots and the promotional photo shoot. I am going to burn a DVD of the rough cut for John S. today so he can start scoring.
In a few days this LiveJournal will phase out. The official Sex Machine site should be going up soon and will have links to all the articles appearing on Cinema Eye and elsewhere.
2004 was a pretty mind-blowing year. We ended 2003 wondering what the hell was going on with CLOUD SYMPHONY and whether we were going to be able to find any Japanese actors for the movie. Then as we finally cast it, the movie swelled into a huge shot-on-super16mm production complete with grip truck, professional crew and expensive transfer. Casting on SEX MACHINE occurred at the same time as CS was wrapping up production. We edited CS while in production on SM. CS premiered with a temp score at DeadCenter Spotlit and got a very good reception. Despite several setbacks we got SEX MACHINE in the can and now the rough cut is done.
In non-movie production stuff, Cinema Eye really exploded this year experiencing a 76% increase in readership over 2003. We scored a cool article with documentary filmmaker Roy Frumkes (Document of the Dead). This is one of the coolest things yet for me personally because Document of the Dead was one of the first filmmaking documentaries that really got me excited about the process.
Our advertising business has also done well, despite several months of incredible neglect. Thanks to all our clients who have been very understanding during the SEX MACHINE production.
2005 looks to be even busier.
I will definitely produce and direct one more feature. There is also a web series that I am pretty excited about that would allow other filmmakers to get involved in a collaborative capacity. I hope to convince as many of the SM cast and crew to go with me to a couple of the crazy film festivals we will be screening at. I plan to travel as much as humanly possible to make up for no travel in 2004. And I am definitely launching 2 more sites in the first quarter of 2005. These should both complement what we have going on with Cinema Eye, but require a little less day-to-day maintenance.
Anyway, thanks to everybody who has helped out with the projects in 2004. It’s been great getting to know a lot of new people who are just as passionate about art and filmmaking as I am. that’s really what it’s all about for me.
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