More Progress With Cancer On My Mind

After a few weeks of planning from Jesse and I, a video shooting crew of five, gathered our talents and equipment and shot the beginning scene of my music on the beautiful coast of Mt. Tam, overlooking the shimmering Stinson Beach. We were patient with the thin clouds on the breathtaking coastline, and waited for a sunny clearing to shoot scenes of Christina, as she posed, smiled, drank wine and ate a sandwich, as my girlfriend. I manned the circular reflector, under Jesse's direction, on Christina's face to fill in the unlit side of her face. Jesse is an amazingly creative cameraman and saw many beautiful moments to direct Christina in scenes involving the stunning Stinson Beach background, an epiphany of Christina blowing a lady bug off her hand, toasting wine glasses, and enjoying the sunny day and coastal view. The day's shoot was filmed from my POV (point of view), an amazing video concept that Jesse came up with.

I checked my email upon arriving home at 10 pm, and was happily surprised to find a re-written draft of a screenplay from Allen Amundsen in my email in box. It is awesome and creative!

Major Progress on Cancer On My Mind

Since my last blog entry on January 15, 2010, a lot has happen with the book and video project:

-the song music is almost completed, but all the vocal and instrument parts must be painstakingly re-aligned by Jesse; the book cover was shot by with Steve last week and we chose the four pictures we want to use to PhotoShop a book cover
- the back cover will include a head shot photo and four positive book comments
-the video is 75% shot, but must be creatively edited together by Jesse into a highly creative video to post on YouTube
-a web site needs to be constructed
-i located a POD site to print and sell my book from called Booklocker