Cough! Cough! Ever been not really sick enough to spend the day in bed? I’m coughing my heart out. Day after day I say, I’m getting better. But no – it drags on.
Where was I?
Oh, last time I left you was Plan B. My friend Rod was here from London and we had dinner Chez Nicola.
Was that this month? Even this year? Wow…
Next day Rod showed me his cut of our 90 minute Pinot film. His is 52 minutes! He was quite right, I couldn’t do it myself. Out went the proposal, out the night harvest, out the wine bar in New York. Crikey!
I can see his plan – keep it to Jamie. Forget the stockbroker to winemaker story. Gosh.
Well I wanna sell it. Rod is ultra smart and he might be right. So why did we fly to New York?
Excuse me. Another coughing fit!
Where was I?
The next day, Rod and I flew to Vegas for the NAB Conference. I have my way of doing things – Rod has his. We’ll take a taxi – No the shuttle is better (my way). Rod wins. The taxi line goes up and down and up. Three quarters of an hour of shuffling my three bags. I get to Circus Circus $34 a night – Rod is off to the Sahara.
I promised DV Mag I’d shoot a video blog. Stupid!
I’ve shot leaving home – now to shoot the hotel room and the journey to the LV Conference Center. Yikes. What a mistake. It’s not as though I’m climbing Mt. Everest. And it’s a HUGE effort. I’m in the hotel room after midnight editing and trying to upload to YouTube,
Still you’ve got to do these things once to realize how really stupid a clever person (me) can be.
The next day, Monday – I’m still shooting anything that moves. Crazy. Tuesday, I filmed Adam Wilt, and might put that here on 2-59. Tuesday night, I shoot the SuperMeet.
Wednesday – only shot the Panasonic 3-D $21,000 camera and the amazing new Aäton. Just two. Way to go. Those stories out real soon on DV.com. Maybe. Still I had fun.
Thursday – I can’t take anymore. First plane outa here.
Rod flies off to LA. Me I’m back to Home Sweet Home, Oakland.
Next day, I collect Tricia from Larkspur (I was on the way to SFO when her plane from Australia came in ONE HOUR early). That afternoon I go to a Sonoma Film Fest party. Come back home. Collect T and go to yet another Sonoma Film Fest party. Ouch! Good – I wasn’t coughing then.
Saturday and Sunday were all Sonoma Film Fest. parties and the big premiere of Pinot: Sonoma Dreams.
The screening went well. I had seen my film here on a bright HD screen with saturated colors. So it was a shock to see it not so bright, not so sharp and with regular color. No one else seemed to mind and compared to the home screening in LA last year, yuk, it was terrific.
All our Audience Votes went to another film! Eating Alaska! Foul!!! Foul!!!
OK Now someone buy it! Once I clean up Rod’s 52 min. version I’ll start marketing again. This is a buyers market and there doesn’t seem to be a real demand, You never know. I keep selling “von Bülow” year after year. Jeffery Dahmer sells well on DVD at Amazon. It’s good to own intellectual property. It won’t date. I think I’ll make it an even 50 minutes – like Planet Earth,
Kristen snaps director (me) and star (Jamie) relaxing after the screening.
DV Mag has been running my SuperMeet blogas their main feature article for well over a week. It was only meant for their ephemeral “Almost Live from NAB Blog.” I wrote it all at the Las Vegas airport’s Burger King place right next to the boarding gate. Stopped writing when I had to board. I left a speaker out. He was only talking about film apps. on iPhones. Yawn.
I think (for me) if you write very fast the truth comes out better. So I thought he shot with a RED One – wrong -I should have written Sony F800 (a $42,000 camera) it didn’t really spoil my story which was my impressions of the night. My impression was a RED camera. Same concept – I thought mixing a $42,000 with a $2,000 camera for a multi-cam shoot was just nuts. Whether it was a RED or a Sony makes no difference.
The Monday after the screening T & I were wiped out. Then we both went down with it. Cough. Cough.
I finish two more pieces for DV mag. make DVDs for various clients – post & deliver.I’ll send Jamie, Chris & Karen, John Palmer some copies of the Sonoma version.
Yesterday and today, the mammoth task of moving 12 web sites from one server to a bigger, faster one. A truly scary moment to remote switch the old server off. Just a mouse click and that’s it – gone! Hey I got $42 back and have four times more memory.
T has been flat out completing Rough Linen orders. Last ones today. I will post them now.
Puff, puff – just back from the PO & bank. Just one clerk at the PO office – an unhappy place in contrast to Chase Bank with four tellers all smiling. Two hours of my life just wasted, I need a drink.
Tomorrow Peter Pan – stay tuned!
