Online Smackdown!

I shaved my beard. Why? For the ladies? Yes. And no. Ultimately so my snorkeling mask will fit tighter in the mustache area. Now what pray tell does this have to do with Relapse? I’m glad you asked. My work ethic has shot up exponentially since I had this simple shave and hair cut. I am totally making the myspace site look way more awesome, as well as my self confidence is through the roof!..uh…anyway…so back the behind the scenes stuff. Right now I am just trying to get all the social networking websites all ready to be launched to the masses, the internet blitz. The myspace is giving me some trouble, it won’t let some media widgets and such work on the left column, so I’m going to re-arrange everything. Again. I’m also trying to make a instructional guide to all the html aspects of our social networking websites so if someone else needs to take over that stuff sometime they won’t have to go through the brain shattering torture that I endured. (my evil plan to make them dumber)

ave

The scout

Ok here’s the story. Willy and I take off yesterday around noon to location scout for our upcoming production of “Relapse,” the greatest thriller ever to be made. In Kona. Anyways, we’re driving south of town, where the vegetation is more lush, up and down narrow streets, peaking around every coffee tree and overgrown driveway looking for the perfect “drug house” which is featured in this film. We’re not having much luck. We grab a few double cheeseburgers ($4 total, the only meal our budget can afford), and head back towards Kona a little disappointed. As an after thought We decide to head up Old Poi Factory Road. Although Willy had been up it before and hadn’t found anything, it goes by a lot of coffee farms so we decide to give it another chance.
Bada Bing! We pull up to a weed infested dirt driveway that winds through overwhelming vegetation on either side concealing what lies at the other end. It looks awesome! We park the car at the road and cautiously walk down the driveway. As soon as a dilapidated red house on stilts comes into view, a vicious K9 the size of a woman’s purse comes barreling towards us barking loudly as well. It’s stops about 20 feet short of us but the barking doesn’t relent. A woman suddenly emerges about 40 feet away, up on the front Lanai and leans over the railing to get a good look at us. “hello” she says questioningly. After we state our reason for being there over the obnoxious yapping, she finally puts away her proverbial shotgun and comes down to meet us.
We finally get a good look at this place and we both look at each other realizing how perfect it is. It looks like a dump. The woman looks Hawaiian with long black hair and wearing a mumu and she turns out to be very nice. We talk with her for a few minutes telling her about ourselves and our project and how her property would be perfect for our film (of course without telling her exactly why). At this moment I notice the hindquarters of the little yappy dog and that he’s got gonads the size of a large papaya. They’re literally dragging. This has nothing to do with the story, I just thought it was worthy to note.
She tells us how this is the oldest coffee farm in the area and says she’ll check with the co-owner, her brother, and see if we can shoot there.
If we get this location we’ll still need an interior but we’d be halfway there! The saga continues so stay tuned…

Love, Andrew

Top Ten

Ok, here they are: The Top Ten Reasons You Should Donate Towards Making Relapse

10. So we can afford beginning and ending credits.
9. We’d like to use locations other than the guy’s apartment.
8. Joel might have to be the lead Actor—please help us pay for a real one.
7. So our soundtrack can feature actual instruments.
6. Everybody’s doing it….if you know what i mean
5. We don’t want to go dumpster diving for ALL of our props…or food
4. Because the house has a past; their future depends on finding it, and were still trying to find the house! but they’re not free!
3. If you donate the right price, you can meet the writers of this top ten list
2. When you give you’re part of making a movie—that’s one step closer to being famous…kinda.
1. “I don’t know, I thought I was buying meth.”

Drum roll please….

Greetings everyone! This is the first post! We’re running an applied filmmaking course for film school graduates. The curriculum is to make a feature film. But not just any film, one that we believe has a powerful message. The students will arrive this week, one of whom will be our story board artist. Also Magnus, one of our graphic designers had to go back to the mainland a few days ago with his family. We’ll miss him. He did a terrific job with logo’s and wallpapers, and one of the teasers. Last week Hiroko, Josh M, John and Joel went hunting for some props – in dumpsters! Check out the video below.

ave