Post Script

- Finch

I apologize in advance for any hiatus which will follow this weekend.

It's my first weekend on set with Hard to Be Me.

The five week long shoot won't go the whole time, but work around people's schedules and shoot here and there where it can. I can guarantee you at least a little bit of Twitter magic on set. So you can either follow along with that in the right column of this blog, or just follow me if you have a twitter account. It'll be my first time on set with Twitter and I'm looking forward to using it to give people a glimpse into the shoot from the director's chair.

No doubt you'll be getting such gems as my morning whine session from today:

has started to have difficulty sleeping. The production jitters are setting in. June will be a very long month.

I don't think I get performance anxiety (or whatever the directorial equivalent is); or I'm too manly from my youth being raised on a potato farm in Wisconsin to admit it. But I usually do find it impossible to sleep during production. Usually "production" has been a stretch of five days or two sets of weekends. Even during these shorter times, I remember getting insanely sick on the set of The Devil's Dictionary and pounding down DayQuil.

Hard to Be Me is four times as long as my longest short.

So for my body as well as my girlfriend I hope I can find some sleep at some point during production. Aside from the sleep thing, I generally forget to eat and then am insanely hungry at like 1:00 AM when the crew is striking for the day. Even when I do have time to eat, I sometimes pass so I'm ready to go again the moment the crew is. I don't want any time to be wasted on my watch. If you've ever been on a set you'll know the biggest enemy is time.

But we've got big plans for giving you behind the scenes access to a lot of the product before you even see the front side, so I will definitely blog about all that. Stay tuned.