Location, Location, Location

We've got the kick-ass script, the kick-ass actors, the crew, the makeup effects. We've got a plan, a vision, a mission. But there's one thing we don't seem to have right now, and that, my friends, is all the locations...

Finding locations in which to film your movie is turning out to be a not so easy process. And I don't mean finding "a" location. I mean "the" location. Because not just any location will do. It has to be believable for the scene and the actors, conducive to filming, and of course add something visually to the movie. It has to be an actor in its own right, the benevolent background if you will.

That's not to say we waited until now to find them (we're not THAT amateur). But yours truly has decided, in the 11th hour, to rethink some of these "actors" we've cast and go for more convenient, more spot on spots. Because I'm a perfectionist. And can't leave well enough alone. And seem determined to cause Jason a nervous breakdown.

And while making a slasher movie is a good first venture for a film maker in almost every regard, when it comes to location scouting, it becomes not so fun. Ask someone if they want their home featured in a movie and they'll jump at the chance. Ask someone if they want their home taken over by strangers for days at a time, the furniture rearranged and the wall hangings critiqued and they start getting that nervous look. Mention you want to splatter a little, oh, blood all over their nice white kitchen floor and they conveniently forget to call you back.

I'm confident we'll get there, but for the time being think of us the next time you're sitting on your couch and consider whether it might not make a very lovely movie set.

To all the location scouts out there: god love you and what you do. And if you're not doing anything over the next month maybe you can give me a call.

Sherrie