Contour At The Movies

Well, I guess my partner (Jeff Biederman) and I didn’t mess up season 2 too badly…we just heard last week that we got picked up for season 3.  Not sure when we go to camera yet; looks like it’ll be sometime in the late fall.

Season 2, frankly, looks great.  Some very funny stuff in there that we’re really proud of.  Now…if only the show would start airing already!   The schedule is still in September, 2009.

–Jeffrey Alan Schechter

With exactly…uh…ZERO SECONDS TO SPARE!  Wrapped on time.  WHEW!

Day three.  We’re running a little behind and there’s less than an hour to go on our shoot day.  I’m informed that we can’t do overtime.  If I wasn’t a professional I’d start to panic right about now.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I’m taking a LOT of grief over my mobile cart.  Maybe it’s the rabbit ears antenna array I use to get the video feed from the cameras (kinda visible in the photo to the right of my laptop.)  Or maybe I’m just a geek.

We started right on time and finished early.  Even got in a bonus shot!   Having fun, so far.  But of course, any script that features a meeting of the VSA (Viking Students Association) can’t go too far wrong.  

The script in question is a first script from a new writing team: Richard Rabkin and Matt Simmons.  Richard’s someone who was introduced to me a few years ago and has been impressing me his writing over that time, and Matt is a friend of Richard’s who blew me away with a feature script he had written.  I thought the two of them would make a good team and suggested that they pitch some ideas for OVERRULED.  They did, one of them clicked, and their script is now the lead-off script for season 2.

There is a lesson in there about networking, persistence, and looking for creative opportunities.  Will this lead to more writing for them?  Who knows.  I know I’d hire them again.

First take, day one.

Tomorrow’s the day! First day of shooting for season 2. I’m sure I’ll get lots of sleep tonight. NOT!

Yes, we really do line up ladders in size order for no reason…

For those keeping score, I haven’t been posting much lately.  There is a good reason; I’m going back into production on my series OVERRULED.

We wrapped season one last year and I’ve been chained to my desk in the production office as we gear up to shoot season two starting on March 9.  I’ll try to keep things moving along here, with the help of the lovely and talented (well, talented) Dan Pilditch.

So rest assured…I’m still around.  Just a little more sleep deprived than usual.