Well, that may be overstating it a bit. As a writer, though, I figure I have carte blanche to over- under- miss- or re- state whenever the mood strikes. This blog is reality as I create it, after all, and divine re-creation is the highest human prerogative.
Here's what I can state, with a high degree of accuracy:
I spent most of yesterday (starting with a bracing 6:00 AM wakeup) in the East Bay on the set of the short film I'm one of the writers on. Small production, so far I'm a co-writer, assistant producer, script supervisor and manual laborer. And, as of yesterday, actor.
I hesitate to use the term "actor" since I have a total of eleven words of dialogue in two brief scenes that probably don't occupy a combined 20 seconds of screen time. I especially hesitate to use the term in comparison to Ryan Eggensperger, Aimee Miles, and Bonnie Jean Shelton, three really superb actors with the film who were on set yesterday.
Still and all, I got in to character (which mostly involved being a geek and lying around in bed- both of which were a total stretch), did my takes and took direction from (oddly enough) the director. It's such total joy to be hanging out with all the great people involved in making this film, and working on it is a concrete form of one of the three intentions I have for the New Year: putting my creativity out there in public more. Yaay!
The film will be screening at the Victoria Theatre toward the end of the month with a bunch of other shorts, I'll let you know when it's coming up…
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