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Last night (or I guess this morning) at around 2am we finished shooting (for the most part) our 10X10 film challenge project– and now I can say for the first time that I have shot my own film (we have done our own music videos, commercials and web videos– and have worked on other people’s films, but this is the first time that we have shot our own project– and a 10X10 at that!).  None of this would have been possible without Laura and Ted from Chick Flick productions, and cast and crew of many, including: Joey Sab, Emily Jones, Chris Uchman-Douglas, Ryan Nelson, Gary Nelson, Ryan Harbert, Daniel Martin and a whole host of others. 

Now a little less than 2 days to whip into an editing frenzy and come up with a finished project.  Good times!

Less than 6 days left for us to finish our short for the 10X10 Challenge.  We have what I feel is a pretty good script for having come up with it in 2 days, and a great cast and crew (none of this would be possible without the hard work and kindness of some very talented people).  We have a pretty hectic schedule planned, but at this point there is no looking back.  If we don’t finish, or come up with a subpar product, we waste the time and energy of a lot of really good people.  No doubts.  No excuses.

And speaking of waste.  A while back, I attended a pretty cool presentation (for my day job) by Scott Abel, on being more efficient with your time.  It was good because he gave lots of ideas on tools to use to be more efficient, most of them online and free. 

Two tools that seemed promising (but I haven’t got a chance try out– see!– guess I am wasting too much time) are “pipes” and iwantsandy.com, an online personal assitant. Don’t be like me–stop wasting time– see his slide show: here