"Seeing Red" Updates!

Hello there Horror Fiends! I've been hard at work on the "Seeing Red" film. As you last heard I had cast the actors for the film, and since have unfortunately ran into a couple of issues that are currently holding us back momentarily. The problem is that literally as soon as I announced the cast, I lost a couple of locations for the film.

The film takes place at three main locations, a Liquor Store, an upscale upper-middle class house and a grungy warehouse or garage that serves as the "rape room" in the film. As far back as early January I had secured all of the locations, and they were PERFECT. I'm telling you, I couldn't have found better locations, but sadly I lost both the "rape room" and house locations at once. Since then, my DP Kevin Armstrong has found us another garage location to use, but I have been struggling to find a replacement for the house. Unfortunately as I am sure you all can imagine, it's tough when you working on a low/no budget film. I toured a couple potentials last week that weren't quite what I was looking for, but I also have a few more potentials I have yet to tour so I hope this issue will be remedied soon.

Despite this issue which has brought the production to a temporary halt at the moment, I have been working diligently to get the rest of the production in place. I have all the props secured, got a talented artist to finish the fake police composite sketch that will be used in the film, shot the fake photos which will be used around the set and even have gotten a little bit of footage in the can yesterday! The scene I shot is a faux news segment that I singlehandedly Directed/Shot/Edited and Composited, so I feel pretty good about it, especially since it came out far better than I expected it would with no assistance. So hey, we have shots in the can, that's an accomplishment in itself!

It really is becoming harder and harder to make my films everyday. I lost my full-time job at the State Attorney's Office back in 2009 and was unemployed for almost a year before I picked up a part-time gig at ABC News here in Tampa, and that gig just isn't cutting it. Money is tight and each production of mine seems to become increasingly complicated (Since I am hopefully progressing as an artist I assume they should I guess) and that means each project is more expensive. So far all of my films have been funded out of my own pocket, but I know soon I will have to start looking for other avenues to raise funding. I must also humbly ask that if any of you out there reading this enjoy my films, and would like to see us continue to make films then feel free to make a donation! Whether it's $50 or $500, we will out it to good use and give you a credit on out film (Specials thanks or Executive Producer respectively).

Anyhow that's it for now, Things we have ran into a few issues but that's not going to stop this production. I really feel that this is going to be out best films yet, it's a bit different than my past films in that it doesn't have some big philosophical or moral message behind it, rather it's a straight up, blood splattered horror flick. I think you all are going to enjoy it! Until then I wanted to post a few pics from the "Faux News Segment" shot the other day to show you all how that is progressing!

UPDATE 3-14-2011:

Great News! After posting this original post I quickly received calls from four local home owners who are interested in letting us use their homes to shoot the film! I am blown away by some of the choices I have been given and it's actually going to be hard to make a decision on which one to use since they are all so great! With this new development we should be back on track and I am planning for an early April shoot!