The countdown

Coming to the end. A little tightening up today and working on the promotional web site. The trailer is on youtube. We just now have to run it through post then TV here we come.
That will be a job of it's own. I fired a few emails out to participants who I have not communicated with in some time. I hope that they are happy, I am getting there.

End Game

The project is nearing completion. I have had edits critiques by CTV and am now having a going over by my colleague Gerri Excell along with her producer in the UK. Now in the third variation, it is now looking like something that will do the subject justice. I have recently had the pleasure of adding Audio Engineer Darren Hammett to the team. So many wonderful people who believe in this project, I can not begin to adequately thank them.

I am already researching my next project and my long suffering wife is checking my sanity. I will soon be putting up a web page to introduce the project. I will let all involved know when.

the URL will be:
thepartingstone.com

Commitment

Exams are over and a long talk with Gerri Excell has assured me the project is on the right track. All those who have volunteered content have delivered. I am now knee deep into putting it together. The one hour masterpiece is now looking like a 30 minute tightly scripted feature. I have been in touch with Shaw Cable and they are interested in running it when completed. I derive this from the fact that the fellow I spoke with four months ago remembered my name. I am hopeful, this is the season of hope, right?

The momentum Builds

The local turmoil over roadside memorials and it they should have a time limit, take down and replaced with some thing called a "Halo" seems to have fizzled out. The woman who initiated the firestorm with a letter to local council has withdrawn here letter and is contemplating legal actions against the City of Kelowna for having her letter altered the having it published.The issue is a sensitive one.

I managed to get a little more footage connected to the incident and well as a little publicity for the project. Steve McGinnis who will be providing some of the music for the soundtrack has told me that the disc is in the mail. I will be focusing on the editing of the project through the month of December and HOPE to have it in the can by the end of January. I will be shopping the finished product to a local cable company for getting it to air. My aspirations about a wider distribution got a dose of reality not too long ago. Guess I have to start modest and work from there. This topic is serious and needs discussion no matter what medium it takes. It is good to be back at it.

The last great act of deiance.

Personal issues have left my documentary in park at the moment but a move by our local government to take down the roadside memorials and replace them with a "halo" a metal band with the deceased's name and date of death has infuriated me so and has started the ball rolling again. These people just can not seem to accept that their idea of memorializing a loved one doesn't work for everyone. Some people can not bare to think that someone might think outside the box. No pun intended.

It will get done. Again as a result of a letter to our city council asking for these "Eye soars" to be removed, I find myself to have come off the fence and can not be objective in this film's message.

Initially my film was purely to examine the topic and issues around roadside memorials but now I have chosen to direct the film into a pro memorial stance. These are important messages which need to be heeded.

Society seems so afraid when we do something that does not conform and memorials are the most important act of non conformist behavior. The grief and the mourning is about the family, the loved ones and the friends.