Day 19: A Good Day to Shoot

January 14, 2010

Last night a bunch of friends came over to my house and we shot a short trailer for a movie we are going to be making later in the year. The movie is going to be a documentary style film about this fantasy league we are all involved in. It is called the "Fantasy Fantasy League" and it is basically a Fantasy Football league for fictional characters. There is a website you can go to and check it out, it is www.fantasyfantasyleague.blogspot.com. I write for this blog/website as well, so there should be a link to it through my profile page.

Anyways, the movie is going to be about the 'Watchers' that write the matches. There are now five full time 'Watchers' on the site. This is my first year as an actual 'Watcher', as I used to only do consolation matches and stuff of that nature. The creators of the league have been full time since the beginning. The job of the 'Watcher' is to write the match how they see it. Which basically means that we take the two teams and match the characters up to each other, then after some research, try to figure out who's team would most likely be victorious. It is obviously not an exact science, as personal preferences towards certain characters can come into play. Overall though, I think we do a pretty good job of keeping it fair.

The trailer that we shot last night did not take very long to shoot, but I do think that it is going to look great. Having everyone there at the same time working on it made it go quite smoothly. Though there were times last night where I really did feel outmatched by some of these guys. Creatively, I felt like I was a step behind in everything. Not that this bothers me in that capacity, I mean the footage looks great and everything went perfectly. It is just that I hope they will continue to want to have me back. I am still good for the shooting luckily, as that is what I have always been the best at. One of the reason's I could be lacking is because it has been a while since I have done anything like this. I suppose it takes some time to knock some of the rust off.

If I sound like I am complaining, I'm only really complaining because this is a really good group of guys that I am working with. I just don't want them to think I am of no help. I love working with them and doing projects like this is all I have ever really wanted to do. With that being said, I cannot wait to see how the finished product looks and to start shooting the movie itself.

Sorry again for not finishing the music list. I will try to close it up by this weekend. Until then, have a good day.