Day 8 & 9: Trading Spaces

Monday morning found us once again in Grammy's house. So we spent the day planning and budgeting and off loading the hours of footage we've taken from around Nova Scotia. The plan was to meet with PJ that night when we made the journey to Myles' mom's house in Lower Sackville, very close to Halifax. So we worked on our proposal for getting short term funding from PJ to get us to the end of the month, because going home on Wednesday as planned is out of the question. We're not going anywhere, not if we can help it.

I did research on James Mood and the 1688, to provide more information to us when we go back and interview him personally. It's always a good idea to do some back to someone after reading up on their history, and James Mood's 1688 has quite a history to say the least.

After out proposal was done we headed to Lower Sackville, but on the road got a call from PJ saying that the next morning would be a better time to meet, we were pretty ok with this as we had wanted to see the new James Bond movie for a while and this would give us some free time to do so. Before we went to the theatre though we stopped by a grocery store in Halifax to meet Myles' 17 year old sister, Marissa. We introduced ourselves and then headed to the theatre, killing time before the show with some arcade games. Skyfall wasn't bad, Brad hated it. We then got to Myles' mom's house and hung out in the basement before going to bed.

The next morning we headed out, (after some confusion as to when we were supposed to) to PJ's house in Halifax and met with him and his marketing guy Harm Geurs. Together we worked out a plan for going forward. That plan is to spend this week editing some promotional video, a trailer and crafting proposals to go after funding, because we're going to need a pretty hefty bunch of cash to go after this story for real, and you can't get money without doing some serious leg work. That's what our next week is focused on, business. We're probably going to form an actual production company as well to handle any incoming revenue anyway.

We're looking at apartments.

I think I'm going to end up moving out here.

I'd be pretty ok with that, it's a heck of a place, and I could definitely see my self living out here, the ocean always just minutes away, the people are nice, I found a comic book store, pretty much everything one could want.

After the meeting with PJ we picked up an extra Macbook from an electronics store to edit on this week  (we already have 2 but this one allows all three of us to be working at the same time) the plan is to take it back to the store in less than 30 days and get our money back, so that we can buy a computer with the funds we're hoping to get, which means we can get a better computer. We need this third one only temporarily is what I'm getting at I guess.

The inside jokes that have formed between the three of us are getting ridiculous, we don't even have to say punchlines anymore, the set up alone is funny.... it's a dangerous comedy game, because now everyone else thinks we're crazy because we die laughing every time one of us says something as simple as "listen....listen...listen..." What does that even mean? Why is that funny? What's going on?


After the laptop "purchase" we organized a corner of the basement into an office sort of space, and it actually looks pretty cool and as it turns out, quite practical. So that's where I am now, typing on our borrowed computer, trying to get my iTunes to work, and downloading editing software. We're going to be editing all week, so there may be fewer crazy adventures for a little while, but when you're around  the people I am, there's never not going to be anything to talk about.

Take 'er easy, take 'er often.

-Matt