... To The Wall?

I've been putting off all of the interviews until the summer, so all I really have to film right now is VINES getting ready for this growing season. Am I missing stuff? Am I just waiting? Sometimes I feel as though the exact mindset I am advocating against with this documentary has been creeping into my own lifestyle, especially lately, with so many things wrapped up, so little happening, I need to be giving myself work, but I seem to just be waiting for work to come to me.
Is this similar to writer's block? when it feels like another creative idea will never come out of your head and that your creative drive has been lost somewhere far away.
Strangely enough, it's times like these when the most people prod me about progress, asking how my film is doing.. why is that?
There is this idea shaking around in my skull that once I have interviews I can make a skeleton and install the footage around that. Is this me being practical or lazy?

Sometimes I fear a loss of drive, taking it as a sign of a lost future, but somehow that isn't enough motivation to get my ass in gear.

-Kevin

Rocketing Through Time

    
         I know it's a cliché, but time really does fly. If you took this day one year ago, I was riding a bus back and forth from the West Side to Johnson City to SUNY BU, all of my free daylight hours being spend in a dilapidated studio space, working on my first ever art installation, and the first project I really put 100% into. I would have worked at night too, but my studio space had no lights, but hey, I was allowed to work there for free.
       The point I'm trying to make with this story, though, is that I hadn't even begun drafting up the fundraising campaign that took every bit of motivation and drive I had for most of the summer. At this time last year I had absolutely no concept of how hard I would be working on this project, and I thought my installation project was the most intensely creative event I would be involved in for a whole.
                               MIND BLOWN.

        So yeah, a lot has been happening since I last posted. Restaurant Week was extremely busy for me, I didn't get all the footage I wanted to get, because I was too busy filming restaurants themselves, and delegating didn't work out too well, so that was frustration, and on top of all that I was very sick.
        Since then I have finished a rough edit of the major Restaurant Week scene, and sent it to Christine for musical brainstorming. She has been sending me a lot of samples and they're honestly impressive, can't wait to hear the finished soundtrack.
        I'm about half way done with some rough edits of minor scenes revolving around the renovation of Zona, so that's good.

        Now that Spring has sprung I will be busy documenting the VINES planting and growing season, their youth employment program, and all of the awesome warm-weather events hosted in this city. I'll be busy busy busy, but I'm still on tract to be done shooting and editing in the Fall.

        I hadn't quite realized how the winter was weighing on me until spring showed up, but my hope and creativity has been revitalized.


"Hobey Ho, Let's Go!"
                    -Kevin

Forced Delegation

As you probably have realized, I'm bad at delegation when it comes to creative stuff. However, this week is Restaurant week, probably the busiest week of filming I have or will have during this project.
It is also the week my body decided to have cold sweats, wracking coughs, and acompletely congested face. I Should Not Be Near Food.
 So... I'm being forced to delegate. I don't care if it's iPhone footage or dslr stuff, I don't care if it's shot by film people or just somebody, but I've put out some requests for people to go to Restaurants and film stuff for me. (I think multiple styles and qualities, and first-person experiences would actually end up being pretty cool).
Anyway, that's what I'm doing this week. Later today, like not during lunch or dinner time, I need to call a bunch of the restaurant owners and get permission to film in their establishments.

That's all for now.

-Kevin

Reworking

So in light of recent information and realizations, I have decided I need to rework the whole structure of my documentary.

This is how I work

Is this a good idea or a bad idea at this point in production? I want to say it's good that I am able to stray from my oricinal structure based on what I think is best for the final product.

For the next 7 days I have at least two things written down on my calendar (each day).. Why does everything always happen at the same time?


Alright, well this was a really short post, gtg back to these post-it notes.

-Kevin

Ps.

What I ended up with