Today I worked out a long synopsis of our project Hot Properties. The completed screenplay is based on a play I directed sometiem ago in New York, as written by Richard Wolf; we share the screenplay rights. We did three staged readings to packed audiences, and got a standing ovation each time.
Joe and I have also been taking bids to have a budget prepared for MegaBalls. We're need to see how low the porject could be shot for (the minimum), and then to have 2nd budget for the $500k projection (the maximum). This will also gives us a shooting schedule and script breakdown, and be added to the development package to appeal for financing.
At the same time we're working on the details of a true MegaBalls 'teaser', and how to finance it(probably for about $5,000). Then we can hire a DP w/ camera and shoot one or two pieces of scenes that will give an idea of what the story is. The money will allow us to hire SAG actors for the teaser - hopefully the actors we'd like in the feature film. We'll add narrations about the back story, and edit the teaser to 3 minutes.
Thanks to Elizabeth Wentworth, we've connected to a producer/line producer in Florida, Elayne Schneiderman. She has great credits and was a pleasure to chat with - and she also knows our casting director, Ellen Jacoby. Elayne has asked to read the 3 synopsis - for "MegaBalls," "Love of a Lifetime," and "Hot Properties." I hope we'll be working with Elayne on the two Florida-based films, if we're lucky!
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