I was described today as "motoring on" with the project. I had to smile. Motor running a little slower at the moment after the strain of sorting out cashflow problems. All ended well but it's been a tough month. I'm a lot clearer now about what I want this business to be doing in five years time - still making revenue from Sanctuary. For that to happen, I'm going to making some changes to the way the project is run. More business and production support and personally, a greater focus on what's necessary to keep the funding and experience rolling in. There is no point in doing a half-baked job on the film and now the challenges is to complete things as soon as possible but not at the expense of MOD Films and its as-yet original idea.
To sort things out, this film-maker is contemplating going back to the project management drawing board. The biggest mistake to-date has to not lock down a realistic post budget for the film. Here we are in Aug and the film is still far from finished. This week I have to decide whether the best way forward is to take a job offer at the BBC Interative Drama dept, cutting overheads down further, while business planning and design continues. I'd been holding out for a part-time or consulting gig but one thing is for certain. We don't have the right team in place at the moment to move forward without further planning. We can't afford to lurch from one week to the next. The edit, sound, and motion graphics elements all require some further work before they can be simply handed over to a post house for finishing.
Putting some time in at the Beeb might also be an opportunity to get a feel for what other interactive crews are up to and make sure we're developing something that will be of use.
Posted by .M. at August 18, 2005 01:32 AM