So, we are almost completely finished filming Causality Scheme.  What a wild ride.  The first day of shooting we had technical difficulties (that’s just a good saying for I screwed up) and have to reshoot some of the scenes.  The second day of shooting went much better.  However the cameraman on Day 3 didn’t know I don’t label my miniDV tapes and popped in the tape that we had footage on!  Yep, have to reshoot that stuff too.  It’s no one’s fault, just a miscommunication.  Oh, by the way, I have started labeling my tapes now, and I also am turning on the little safety switch on the tapes too.  You live and you learn right?

Everyone is working very hard and dilligently towards making this film a reality, and boy what a reality it is!  The footage that we didn’t screw up looks absolutely beautiful.  Causality Scheme is going to be one heck of a movie!

As I was driving to work this morning I popped in my Glory soundtrack CD.  The moment it started playing this morning I was brought back to my 7th grade field trip where my schoolmates went to see Glory at the movie theatre.  What a movie!  I remember feeling all sorts of things when watching that movie, happiness, sadness, uneasyness, and I’m sure much more.

It wasn’t until my teacher, Mr. Schmidt whom we simply called “Schmidt”, was asking us “ok, yes it was a good movie, but why!?” and we all were answering out with “the action!” or “good acting!” and things such as that.  He then answered his question by saying “the music!!”  And boy was he right!  Without the music, Glory would still be good I’m sure, but nothing compared to what it is.

It was at that point in my life that I started thinking about movies as an art form and has thus led me to my new path of filmmaking.  Thank you James Horner for composing that beautiful score, thank you Glory, and thank you Mr. Schmidt!

So this is what happened.  I was working at Max & Erma’s and met a fellow employee named Dan Wagner.  We both really liked movies and found out about this school called Full Sail in Florida.  It was a film school and offered a $99 one day event which included airfare, transportation to and from the Florida airport, lunch, and dinner.  It was a tour of the school and we both were very impressed.  That was until I walked into the job placement session.  They said that after graduating and spending a ton of money on a degree, I’d most likely get a job as a gofer: a coffee getter.  I thought to myself “No way! I want to direct!!”  Ahh, the years went by and I lost my dream of making movies.  Until one day at Max & Erma’s I met Patrick Read Johnson.  He lives about 20 minutes away from me, and that inspired me to start up my dream of making movies.

I researched and read and researched and read even some more about how to make movies.  I bought a nice little camera, the Canon XL2, and picked up the Avid editor.  I asked my buddy Mike Paquette, “Mike, you wanna be in a movie?”  Mike replied “Sure.”  I hung up the phone, but then thought, “Oh shoot, I need one more person for my movie.” I called Mike back and said, “Hey, ask Joe [Mike's brother] if he wants to be in the movie too.”  I heard Mike shout, “Yo Joe, you wanna be in the movie too?”  I heard Joe say “yep” and I had my two star actors.  We made “So, A Guy Walks Into A Bar” and what a riot!  It was so much fun to do.  We had our premiere and showed the movie to all of our friends and family, and the film was a huge success (at least in our minds).  We couldn’t wait to make another one.  But that’s another story.