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Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 8:00 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
The Long Wait
Hopefully, by Monday, November 30, I'll finally have all eight Tampa Bay Film sites up-to-spec, and will be in the position to be able to put the Tampa Bay Film sites on standby, which was announced a while back. What should have taken me a week has taken me much longer.
I'll be focusing on my photography business, and the Tampa modeling industry, for a while after I put the Tampa Bay Film sites on standby. Although I will be doing routine maintenance on the sites, much of the work that I will do will be for the online film festival, with small updates such as adding films to the playlist, and maintaining the playlist. I will also invest time into SEO efforts for the Tampa Bay Films sites (if you plant seeds, you add fertilizer and water after they sprout, and then sit back and wait for the fruit). Expect the posts on this blog to slow down a lot, too.
I'll probably get back to Tampa indie film on the Tampa Bay Film sites in the spring of 2010. I will be shooting my first short indie film in February 2010, the Reverence short film in April 2010. Reverence may end up being one the of best horror films ever made in Florida, although it is primarily a psychological creeper piece, and even though it is a short film, it should blow large Tampa films such as Experiment 7, 100 Tears, and others out of the water. It needs to be great by default, since it "somehow" ties into a film festival. With a budget of under $1,000.00, and with minimal equipment, cast, and crew, Reverence should open some eyes to what is possible when it comes to making indie films in Tampa. Cast, crew, and equipment? Reverence will have a cast of 4, a crew of 3, and will use minimal equipment, such as a single DV camera (and I am building my own steadycam mount, crane, and boom for less than $100.00, with parts from the hardware store). It will be a case where talent more than makes up for a small production; the seven of us working with my script (which is awesome, and should prove to be controversial), and getting it shot in a weekend. Under $1,000.00? Surprise: Reverence may end up costing less than $500.00 to make, and if we pull it off like I expect to, it will make most of those large, bloated feature films look like poor investments, which is one of the points that I intend to make! I also expect post for Reverence to take a while, because we may have to loop the dialogue in a few ADR sessions. I have other film projects in the works for 2010. I will also start filming my Frontier View online "television" series, as my DJ Frontier alter-ego, in the spring of 2010. I won't have my cybersuit completely operational by then, so I'll simply fake it and use the equipment that I have (with lots of money coming in from my photography business, which should be setting records by January, I should have the suit done by the summer of 2010. This cybersuit technology will define a large part of my life for, perhaps, the rest of my life, and it ties in directly with my DJ career, and my career as an entertainment polymath). Oh, and I will be working on a lot of new DJ releases in 2010, too, as well as re-releasing much of my back catalog as digital MP3 releases in the spring of 2010. Also, all of my DJ production sessions will be videotaped, with the production of the DJ projects and Frontier View crossing a lot.
Keep in mind that the Tampa Bay Film sites will not be receiving a lot of articles and content for most of the first half of next year, because much of what will be written will have a hold on publication until the time is right, especially since I will be doing filmmaking work almost on a daily basis. I'll be working on films starting in February, and all of my indie films will be the most documented productions in Tampa Bay history, but none of that material will be published until well after the films are released. My short films will not be released until the fall of 2010, and when they are, they will be exclusively released at my array of film festival events and on my online film festival (I may allow a select few to see them early, to help build buzz). I have no short-term plans to sell any of my short films; They will be my portfolio, which I will need to land investors. I'll start making money as a filmmaker when I start doing the best Tampa feature films, and I have serious resources, equipment, and investors to do those. Estimated time for that? 2014. What if the Myan calendar is correct, and the world ends in 2012? Oh, well. At least I'll have some of the best short films and best film festivals in the history of Tampa to immortalize myself with.
See how the master plan is coming together? Great things take time to happen, but they eventually happen. By 2012, both CFB and TFF, which, in my opinion, are bad for Tampa indie film, will be history; retired and out of business (The TFR is already history, a noted failure as a film festival. TFF is already obsolete because of Tampa Bay Film, and CFB is on life support now, in my opinion, and they are exactly at a place where they deserve to be). By 2015, the Tampa indie film scene will be a lot different than it is now. I will be one of the top indie filmmakers, and will be a leader in the film scene. We'll finally have a professional Tampa film community, too, and some parties, such as the Tampa film commission, will be forced to respect us and the films that are being done in Tampa by Tampa filmmakers (this is not the case now, in my opinion).
Ah, and about the film festivals: The Reverence film festival (fall 2010), and the debut of the Tampa Film Showcase (January 2011), are still on schedule. I'll also be doing several underground film festivals throughout 2010. That's it for now. It's back to working on the last four Tampa Bay Film sites.
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