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Monday, October 5, 2009 - 3:40 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Tampa Bay Film Sites Placed On Standby
Effective immediately, all of the Tampa Bay Film sites have been placed on standby, with few content updates in the immediate future. Of the minor work that will be done, expect that work to be applied to setting up the "un launched" Tampa Bay Film sites with Super Raptor class formats and getting core content up. 95% of my web site and Internet work will be needed... elsewhere. At least for the rest of the year.
I really have no choice in the matter, and had to come to terms with some ongoing issues. Additionally, my P.R. people have asked me to refrain from posting too much on my assorted blogs, so expect those updates to be far less frequent, and far less lengthy. I'll post when I can, but with my photography business taking up a lot of my time, and more than one book project which have to be done soon, my time will be limited.
This said, Tampa Bay Film is still the voice of Tampa indie film, and the Tampa Bay Film sites will be the dominant Tampa indie film web sites. They already are dominant, and will continue to increase their lead in 2010. We are just taking a break, and will be back sometime in 2010. We have some very ambitious Tampa indie film projects, such as covering Tampa indie film news and producing a series of powerful film festivals. We simply want to take the time to set all of this up correctly, and to ensure that we have the resources that we will need to do regular and consistent work, work which will set new standards with quality. To set benchmarks and to revolutionize Tampa indie film is going to take quite the set up, and that's what we will be doing. Do you want me to start something that I will unable to finish, or do some cool film festival and not be able to keep it going consistently? The Tampa Film Showcase, for example, will be the "backbone" of all of the Tampa Bay Film film festival properties, and there are certain standards that we will have to maintain on a monthly basis. This will take steady resources, and I'm not hacking this together, nor will I put us in a position that we will have to scrounge around for things that we will need to keep it going. I am not doing another Tampa Film Review. If we can't do it better than the TFR each and every month, and the filmmaking scene does not benefit, then it will not be worth doing. I am an innovator. I am a professional. I'm not a "me too" person. I set my own standards, and sometimes, this takes work and time to set up properly. Patience, people, patience. It will happen, in due time.
For now, I've been instructed to fix the menus on the existing Tampa Bay Film Super Raptor class sites, convert Tampa Bay Film to a Super Raptor class site, refresh the pictures (thumbnail array) on Tampa Bay Film (mandatory because most of the other Tampa Bay Film sites will be using the Tampa Bay Film thumbnail array, and they will all link back to the portfolio on the main Tampa Bay Film site), and to get the other sites completely up by next month. This will take all of the little time that I will have left.
Other developments: The Halloween Drive-In underground film festival has been cancelled for this year (thank you for getting back to me, "you know who"), and the debut of the Tampa Bay Film Review underground film festival has been delayed until February 2010. Also, I wanted to film my first short indie film, friendship, in late November. That has now been rescheduled for January, 2010, a delay of more than eight weeks (The shooting schedule of Reverence and the other shorts should remain unaffected). I know, it seems that I am Mr. delay, delay, delay, and I'll never get certain ambitions done because I am sidetracked by too many other things going on, but this will eventually get done. I promise. I've been doing indie film for close to 16 years now (we were shooting short films in Tampa on 3/4 inch video tape back in 1993, and back then the Tampa indie film scene was populated by an entirely different group; a group, ironically, which I was popular with- maybe that's because most of them knew what they were doing, and weren't neurotic or insecure), and was initially trained to do film production work in 1993. For my films, I've been waiting to do my first "solo" indie film project for ten years now. A few more months won't matter much. Once I get started, however, I'll really get going. My indie films are going to change the face of Tampa indie film forever. Wait and see.
For now, the house lights come up, and the curtain lowers. You can hear the noise of construction happening backstage. Come back later. I promise that there will be a show well worth experiencing.
Oh, and if anyone out there has something to post, send it in. I'll post it when I can. It's just that I will not be able to write too much to post. Everyone else can continue to use the Tampa Film Blog.
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