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The teaser! The title! The awkward silence!

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 by Andrew

You know that movie that I directed this sum­mer? The one that most of you were involved with in some way? The one you thought was called Political Justice? That’s not what it’s called. It’s called Discouraging Words, and here’s a teaser trailer:

For more view­ing options (includ­ing 1080p, for the videophiles!), check out dis​cour​ag​ing​words​.com.

About a week into pro­duc­tion I made the laugh­able claim that we would have a teaser by the end of week 2. Obviously, that didn’t happen—although in my defense, it wasn’t for lack of mate­r­ial. We could have cut a teaser from only the footage we got in the first week, but by ‘we’ I mean ‘some­body who isn’t me,’ and… well… that per­son didn’t exist. But the past is behind us, that that is a pretty awe­some teaser, if I do say so myself.

Still hav­ing trou­ble adjust­ing to that title? Discouraging Words? Say it to your­self. Discouraging Words. Let it roll around your mouth. It wasn’t my idea, but it is the per­fect title, and I’ll tell you how I arrived there. (more…)

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Artifact from production: Wiley Jerris with Bush Sr.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 by Andrew

This pho­to­graph of Wyoming Republican Party chair­man Wiley Jerris (Gregory Stuart) pos­ing with for­mer President George H. W. Bush, was sit­u­ated on Jerris’s desk for a recent shoot:

Wiley Jerris and George H. W. Bush

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This is not a production update

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 by Andrew

Hello dear friends,

I know, it’s been over a month since my last post. I’ve been a neglect­ful blog­ger, and for that I apol­o­gize. Now, zoom­ing down Interstate 25 at just slightly over the posted speed limit of 75 miles per hour (but not dri­ving while typ­ing, don’t worry), I am sud­denly pre­sented with about two hours of unsched­uled free time. Let me tell you a lit­tle about what I’ve been doing lately.

Nathan Bock as Terry and Nicole Gawronski as Margot

(more…)

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The cost of a terabyte

Thursday, June 11th, 2009 by Andrew

Today I got my brand-new 1-terabyte (1,000 giga­byte) exter­nal hard drive in the mail—bought in order to store and edit the Political Justice footage. I paid about $110 for it, includ­ing ship­ping. I remem­ber a few years ago when I was intern­ing at Channel 10 and they got their first ter­abyte drive, my boss looked up how much a ter­abyte would have cost in years gone by. I couldn’t remem­ber those num­bers, so out of curios­ity, I did a lit­tle research and cal­cu­lated the cost of a ter­abyte in years past (via Cost of Hard Drive Space):

2004: $1,000
1999: $27,400
1989: $12 mil­lion
1984: $80 mil­lion
1956: $10 billion

Granted, the very idea of a ter­abyte would have been ludi­crous in 1956, when only one mag­netic hard disk existed, with a stor­age capac­ity of 5 megabytes and a pro­duc­tion cost of $10,000 (in 1956 dol­lars). Still, hypo­thet­i­cally, a ter­abyte would have cost $10 bil­lion 53 years ago. Inflation-adjusted, that’s $78.4 trillion—enough to pay for the fed­eral bailout more than six times over.

And now I’ve got two of ‘em in my liv­ing room.

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Last chance to audition: Political Justice

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 by Andrew

If you want to try out for Political Justice, you’ll want to stop in for the last day of gen­eral audi­tions today (Wednesday, June 10). You can come to Bas Bleu Theatre, 401 Pine Street, from 1:30–5:00 PM, or the Poudre River Arts Center, 406 North College Ave. (Northeast cor­ner of Willow & N. College) from 7:00–10:00 PM.  Use the east side exte­rior stairs and come up to the sec­ond level. Our cast­ing direc­tor will be out of the coun­try, so don’t pester her. You can drop me a line say­ing you’re com­ing, or you can just walk in.

Casting for Political Justice

Casting has gone swim­mingly so far and we’ve had a lot of smart, tal­ented peo­ple come in and read silly things off of pieces of paper. Someday I will tell you more but now, I sleep.

 

Sincerely,

Andrew Gingerich

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OPEN CASTING CALL: Political Justice

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 by Andrew

This is a film school senior the­sis project for Andrew Gingerich, a senior at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, for­merly of Fort Collins.  I’ve worked with him on three films and find him to be intel­li­gent, orga­nized, and pro­fes­sional beyond his years, so I highly encour­age you all to audi­tion, even though there will be no pay.

Auditions con­sist­ing of cold read­ings and polit­i­cal ban­ter will be held Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, June 8–10

Evening audi­tions will be held each day from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. at the Poudre River Arts Center, 406 North College Ave., Fort Collins, CO (Northeast cor­ner of Willow & N. College).  Use the east side exte­rior stairs and come up to the sec­ond level.

Daytime audi­tions will held Wednesday only at Bas Bleu Theatre, 401 Pine Street — Fort Collins, CO from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.

Appointments are pre­ferred but not nec­es­sary.  To make an appoint­ment, call Gale McGaha Miller at 970–402-9140 or email her.

Working title: Political Justice

Projected run­time: 120 minutes

Synopsis: Gas sta­tion atten­dant Dale Roper is a polit­i­cal junkie and part-time speech­writer for a man he hates: Wyoming state sen­a­tor Wilt Sturgeon (“Like the fish!” say all his cam­paign signs). When events con­spire to launch Sturgeon as a can­di­date for Wyoming’s only Congressional seat, Dale winds up work­ing both for and against Sturgeon in an attempt to save the nation from Wilt the Fish’s influ­ence. As the elec­tion draws near and Dale is faced with cyn­i­cism and cor­rup­tion on both sides, he is forced to decide which side he’s on—with poten­tially dire consequences.

Schedule:
May-June: Script revi­sions, cast­ing, loca­tion scout­ing, rehearsals
July 5–6: Crew ori­en­ta­tion, equip­ment check
July 7: Start of prin­ci­pal pho­tog­ra­phy
August 5: Principal pho­tog­ra­phy wraps

Featured cast break­down is as fol­lows.  Many roles are gen­der neu­tral and could go either way. (more…)

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Frantic scribbles

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 by Andrew

So I’ve started doing some pre­lim­i­nary revi­sions to the script. Not a full draft yet, just some quick fixes. Going through my cur­rent draft and read­ing the notes, I found this nota­tion in the mar­gin of page 86:

TOO MUCH WORDS! HEAD HURTS!

…so I’m work­ing on that.

On a some­what related topic, I will be back in Fort Collins TOMORROW! I will be mak­ing phone calls and hope to be receiv­ing them as well because that is the point of what phones do: some­times you dial them, and some­times they just ring on their own. It’s sort of poetic, in a not-so-poetic sort of way.

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