raloria

Been a while since I've put up this info.

Besides being here on LJ I'm also on Twitter. Look me up and follow if you like.
Keep in mind I tend to promptly block anyone who follows me with a name I don't recognize, so if you think this will be a problem, please leave a comment here to let me know, okay? Also, if I block you by mistake, please let me know & I'll fix it.

I'm raloria0613 on Twitter. :D

I also have a 2nd LJ for my filmmaking experiences & knowledge. I don't update it as often as I should, but I hope to post some cool stuff up there soon. That journal is completely F-locked.

My filmmaking journal is under the username scriptgoddess.
Add me and I'll add you back. :)

For those of you who are new to my flist, I also run the LJ community jensenhappiness.

For Email: raloria_spn at yahoo.com
I'm also raloria_spn on Yahoo Messenger. Feel free to add me for chatting. :)

It's a warm afternoon, I'm knee-deep in my SPN Locations list hunt, and I need some diversion.

As many of you know, I work in the independent film industry in the Seattle, WA area as a Script Supervisor. I have several films under my belt and I love filmmaking!

So I thought I'd open the floor to questions.

Ask me anything about filmmaking: technical stuff, my experiences, whatever you're curious about. :D

Saturday afternoon I went to the little premiere of the film I worked on last summer...now called "Of Yesterday And Tomorrow" (and formerly known to some of you as "Long Time Gone"). I had my uncle drop me off (driving our car with my mom & aunt along) outside the Central Cinema in Seattle. There were lots of people there, some I knew and some I didn't. We ended up waiting long past the scheduled start time because there were technical difficulties. They ended up playing the film through the editor's laptop onto the big screen, but in the end it worked fairly well.

Anyway, we did a lot of standing, first outside the theater and then a bit inside. Then I spotted some friends (crew members) from the film and went to talk to them. It helped pass the time, sharing stories about vacations and other work projects. I talked a lot with Jordan, who was our assistant cameraman. He's just a bundle of energy, this guy! He can totally talk your ear off! LOL So we hung out and once we got inside we decided to sit together, so it was nice to be with someone during the film.

Once inside and seated we had to wait again. This is a dinner theater and one waitress was going around taking people's orders (she never did get to our row, btw, but it was cool 'cause I didn't want anything anyway). So that took another half hour! The show was supposed to start at 3:00, but it didn't actually start until a little after 4.

The film though, looked great! It's so awesome to see something you helped create come together as a whole piece. The director/writer/producer, M. Korolenko, warned us ahead of time that it wasn't completely finished, but just about everything was done. Outside of one missing sound effect and a few awkward music cues, it looked great to me. It all worked, the story, the acting, all of it. And me being me, I was checking my own work as well, trying to see if I could find any continuity errors. I'm happy to say I didn't find any and if I couldn't spot them, I'm sure nobody else did either.

I found myself reminiscing as the film played. I could remember clearly certain days and moments, mostly revolving around how hot it was shooting certain scenes because we were either out in the hot summer sun, or inside a completely closed up house. But the audience laughed at the right times and you could feel the emotional moments hit them too. After the film, there was a brief Q & A with the director and the reactions were all positive. It made all of us who worked on the film feel very good!

Everyone slowly trickled out of the building, saying goodbye and I called for my relatives to come pick me up. Then I met with an old friend while I waited.

( The guy I didn't expect to see at all yesterday.... )

I thought I'd mention that I finally finished that film production Photo Project I've been working on for months.

I mailed the DVDs off yesterday! I'm free! I'm free!!!!!! *happy dances* :D

I'm all messed up. Working on organizing our massive DVD collection all Monday does that to me I guess. Then I watched my normal Monday night programs, Dancing With The Stars and the new series Castle. I'm now signed up to vote for DWTS after all these seasons of being just a passive viewer. I have no absolute favorite so far, it's too early. Meanwhile, I liked this episode of Castle even more than the Pilot, though I'm starting to feel as I saw mentioned somewhere that Susan Sullivan's character of his mother seems out of place and unneeded. The daughter's fine, but the mom has to go, I think.

stolenglimpse and I worked together to try and figure out the mystery and confusion surrounding screencaps, aspect ratios, and resolutions. It took some time, but I think we each found answers for our own individual cap problems. Now that's some awesome teamwork! *high fives* \0/ Long story short? I can see now that the resolution for all of my DA caps is off. Yikes. Fixing them isn't a huge deal, but re-posting the new ones is. This is now on my long-term To-Do list. Ugh. :(

Took my walk after 3 days of not walking, but got home & then forgot to post about it. Ooops. So I guess this is my post....after a fashion. Anyway, the weather cleared up long enough for me to take my walk and while it was still cold and a bit blustery, it wasn't too bad. I sure did feel tired once I came home though. I guess missing 3 days had a big effect!

Oh, and thanks to growyourwings's encouragement I added Jim Beaver as a friend on Facebook! And he added me back Monday afternoon! Woot! I went ahead and then added a few of my filmmmaking contacts in the area. I also started looking for other friends, past classmates, filmmaking buddies, etc. One friend led to another friend and so on. I only added a couple of people, but one of them already added me back. I even ended up on MySpace and toyed with joining up there, but I'm not quite ready yet, so I held back on that for now.

Man...I'm so tired right now. I didn't get back to replying to comments *iz bad LJ friend* and now it's time to scramble and get my icon & cap posts up before I rush off to bed. I hope the rest of my Tuesday is a little more...normal?

Somebody kill me now.

Sent an email to the director to let him know how the photo project was going. Asked him a question. He sends back an email which sounds like he no longer wants a list describing each photo....he wants a brief description in the filename for each photo. Gaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

And he didn't answer my question. *sigh*

I swear....he is so vague about what he wants. He'll give me these little hints. I want this and this. When he really should be giving me more detail about exactly what he wants me to do!



So I've just emailed him back trying to clear up this whole mess. I even took a screenshot showing some of the photos in a folder and then my text file list of descriptions. Before he told me he wanted scene numbers on everything, now he doesn't even mention that! Here I am, almost done with this thing and he throws another obstacle at me! Why? Why can't he just tell me exactly what he wants? Why does it have to be such a struggle to get this info. out of the guy???? I'm trying to do a good job, but he's making it soooo difficult! *pulls out hair*

I know the guy's busy and doesn't want to take a lot of time typing out an email, but would it kill him to simply take a moment and type more than 5 words as to what he wants???? I know it's sort of a male thing to be vague, but this is getting ridiculous.

I've noticed that for at least the last 2 episodes, the directors have been miss-labeled by various comms and websites. I don't know what's going on here, but people....please get it right.


4x11 "Family Remains" was directed by Phil Sgriccia NOT Kim Manners

4x12 "Criss Angel Is A Douche Bag" was directed by Robert Singer NOT Phil Sgriccia


I get my info. from the credits on the episode itself and not a website or comm, btw.

Sorry to sound bitchy, but I like info. to be correct and when I see people posting with the wrong info. it really bothers me. Chalk it up to a pet peeve of mine.

:: Zzzzzzzzz.....so sleepy today. I just wanna curl up in a toasty blanket and sleep until I can't stand it anymore. Bah. I hate being this groggy. I know I need to change my sleep habits, but it's soooooo hard to do. :(

:: Vancouver Con tickets are selling fast! Yikes. The latest news: "The Gold Weekend Packages for Vancouver are about 3/4 sold out as of the morning of January 14. Photo Ops with Jensen and Jared are about 50% sold out."

Damn. Looks like I'm going to have make my ultimate decision about going sooner rather than later. At least as far as the Photo Ops go. Been checking out cheaper hotels nearby & there are a couple of good possibilities. Now I just have to run some final numbers for expenses & prove to my mom that this is doable and that I'm determined to go.

:: I'm so behind in all the Jensen/MBV stuff that I want to post. I hate being behind. :(

:: I started thinking about my movie script today, which I haven't done for over a year, I think. Scenes were popping into my head. Guess my Crazy Muse is putting off writing those fanfic sequels again. :P

:: I've given a deadline to the movie director that I'll have my photos all listed & on DVD for him by the end of this month. Eeep. Would it be surprising to anyone that I still haven't started yet? *sigh* The task is so daunting that I'm avoiding it, but I can't do that forever. Maybe once I take a nap I'll be motivated to start today. Yep, classic procrastinator here. *raises hand*

:: I'm seriously considering making a big post today. I'll let you guess as to which one it is. Hee. ;)


I'm going to eat my late lunch, take a nap, and then see what mischief I can get myself into. Heh.

:: Been trying to put a new string of lights on our tree all evening. We bought some of those new LED lights after the string that came with the tree fitzed out on us. Now I know why my dad always swore so much while lighting our real trees all those years....it's a damned frustrating job! Doesn't help that they put the lights so close together. Grrrrrrrr.

:: Haven't even started on the Xmas letter or addressing cards to send out to relatives yet. *sigh*

:: Filming might be over, but I'm still working....with my photos. The director has me choosing pics from my collection for the film's website, making a list of all my photos, burning some DVDs for him with all my photos....gah!

:: We're supposed to get more snow starting tonight. Then it's supposed to snow all day tomorrow (Wed) into Thursday morning. Temps are staying in the 20s and getting into the teens at night - unusually cold for Western WA.

:: We're still the only house at this end of the street with any lights up outside (well, inside the windows, anyway). Bah. Not much Christmas spirit in the neighborhood this year, it seems. :(

:: I'm way behind in almost everything...real life stuff, LJ stuff, film work stuff, Christmas stuff. It's all ganging up on me, which might explain my gloominess the past few days, which has yet to really lift. :(