Primed…

Time is really starting to escape me.  I am not sure why it feels I have no free time, as I think I have to much of it.  What have I been doing lately?  I need to take a minute here to reflect on a bunch of stuff.  I have gotten a lot of emails asking me what happened to “Asphyxiate the Witness”.  It is over.  The people who listened to the music did not understand the point we were trying to make, so fuck them.  Thats done.  If you like it then thats good for you, the music is still out there, but I am not longer affiliated with it.

I have been writing a lot.  My new script entitled “Visionaries” is coming along nicely.  I am not going to say what its about because if people tell me its a bad idea then I will lose confidence.  I know your not supposed to say things like that, but I am because its the truth.  Im only human, and people can fuck with head a plenty.

I have also had a rigorous reading schedule, not to mention film watching schedule.  There are a lot of really bad excuses for art out there, and I think I have seen enough of them to be able to never watch another one again.  A couple quick recommendations.  On the film front check out the 1979 movie “The Tin Drum”.  If you want surrealism and social commentary mixed into the form of a fairy tale then you will love it.  Books, I don’t know.  I read “Under the Dome” by Stephen king and it was cool, but long and nothing more than mindless entertainment.  If I am going to read something over a thousand pages, I would like it to teach me something about our despicable race.  I am no reading “The Botany of Desire”, and its really good.  Follow me on goodreads at goodreads.com/bryanbaca.

Speaking of despicable race, that brings me to the next item that has been sucking up my time.  Work.  Working in retail, especially around this time of year is terrible.  People just buy shit with no repent, and once you put on that shirt that earns you minimum wage; you are an idiot.  Even if you are smarter than them, they wont believe it.  They just want to buy their screaming kids presents then go home and fuck their fat spouses.

This brings me to my final time sponge.  This is the reason I feel I am entitled to be smarter that the people who buy shit constantly.  College.  The semester has ended and I am in the middle of four weeks off.  I want to go back though.  I feel like I am wasting away.  I just want to get educated and force myself to live a better life than the people I briefly encounter on a daily basis.

Be back soon with my top films of 2009.

Obsessively Compulsively Writing About the Future…

With everything that I have been doing lately, including working and school, I have not had a lot of time to write on here.  But now since my life has leveled out I think I have found the time to revisit this seemingly desolate blog.  As you all know, I filmed my first feature over the summer, which can be found online (look in the post privy to this one), but I have talked way to much about that.  The film was a learning experience, and taught me a lot about the craft, along with stress management.

Now that I feel I have come one step closer to my goal, both mentally and physically, I have looked ahead to the future.  Right now, I work a part-time job and go to school at community college.  I am beginning to wrap up the latter, and look to transfer to a University and major in film.  I cannot wait for this to happen.  I feel that I am being educated in general ed, but it is reiterating all of the same shit that happened in high school, and I look forward to being further educated int he craft of filmmaking.  I plan to transfer in a year or so, but have not decided on a university, but I promise myself that it will be one with a decent film program.

I have also started on a new screenplay simply titled Three Acts of Misfortune, which is I promise you, much less whiney, and much more dedicated to story telling than the personal rant that was May 17th.  I am taking this screenplay slow, and plan to have it done so that right when I get out of film school, I can go and get it the fuck made.

Pretty much to sum it up, my life is a boring strain of monotony right now, but I have high hopes for the future.  I am hoping that is the boring, slow phase of my life that is needed in order to prepare my psyche for a non-stop full rush adult life.  I gain experience every single day, and I can’t wait to see what coming events hold.

P.S. I am sure none of you care one bit about what I just said.

My First Film…

I dont know how many of you have seen this yet, but I figured since I have been writing about this film on here, I might as well make it available here for you.  It is my first feature, and it was a learning experience like no other.  The sound mix is a little sketchy, so I would highly recommend  headphones…

Part 1.

Part 2:

Good Afternoon

A Look Back on the Recent

By: Bryan Baca

As you may know if you read this sporatically updated site at all I am in the process of making my firest feature film.  If this is your first time reading this site, then well, I am making my first feature film.  I am, and will be for a while editing this thing.  For all of you who care, I am almost done with first cut and when that is done, I will straight fucking cum.  I am very proud of the film, and of the people who helped me to make it what it is, you know who you are.

But, that is not what this post is about.  This is not about me giving you boring as details of a little ass film your probably don’t give a fuck about.  This is about me and my misanthropy, and how making this film may of cured it.

All the people I made this film with will tell you that it was a smooth easy ride.  It was for the most part.  Shooting went off without a hitch, and we even got done a little early.  My cast was great, and my crew equal.  Let me just say one thing…even having the smoothest of experiences, I am still popping zits from the stress, and yes, I am still young enough to have to deal with that shit.

At the beggining everything did go smooth, and I said to myself, this is easy, why does everyone complain? Then it all started happening slowly, starting with the flaking of a piece of shit actor (no names named, even though if you look at the blog history you can figure it out).  What I may of said in those entry’s is honestly, a complete lie.  There was no respectful parting of ways.  What really happened was I tried to call this piece of shit over, and over again to talk about stuff (this is about 3 weeks before shooting), and he does not pick up.  After about 2 days of this, I realized that this mother fucker had flaked on me.  Not even a word, just fucking flaked.  I have not spoken to him since.  I don’t even know what happened.

Now you know they real story about that.  I was going to keep it hidden at first, then I realized I don’t give a fuck about what that guy thinks.  Robert stepped in and did a great fucking job.  Ryan as well.  I am really happy with both of them for working that out on such short notice.

After we finished shooting, there was a series of shitty events, which ended up with me starting my first cut about 3 weeks late.  I would like to thank my good friend Sean for pretty much coming through and saving my white ass.

The theme of this poorly structured rant is that this has been the greatest learning experience of my life.  I have overcome problems I never knew I would face, and it has showed me that there are good people in the world willing to help you when you need it, and they counter act the shitty ones.  I have learned to respect filmmakers even more, and now I can watch any film and even if I do not like it, I can respect it.  I hope I am making something cool/smart/funny that all of you can enjoy.  Just wait a little longer, and hopefully you will all get to see it.

“May 17th” Production Blog…

What is up.  It has been a long time since I have posted on here, and for that I apologize, but it has been a busy few weeks.  In case anyone is wandering, we finished shooting and it went of without a hitch.  I could not be happier with any of the footage that we got, and I am very confident in every frame.  Now I will stop sounding like a pompous asshole and I will actually give you the update as to where we are.

Post-production has been going slow as I hit a small speed bump, and wanted to take an extra week or show to get the footage up in the best possible quality that I could.  A cut is in the making though and you will soon see some evidence of that.  The official site (may17movie.com), will have screen shots soon, and if all goes well a trailer will be going up in the next month.  I plan to hit the festival circuit hard, and I hope that everyone who reads this site gets to see the film as soon as possible.

Once again I apologize for the delay but I am going to do my best to make it worth the wait.

Bryan.

May 17th Production Vlog 2

It is July 16th.

It is July 16th and we shoot in just three short days. Everything is finally together. The actors will be coming into town in just a couple days, then we start shooting. Pre-production has been a hard road, and if you have been following then you know that we had some casting difficulties among other things, but now that is all behind. Now all I have to worry about is actually shooting and cutting a good film. We will be shooting all outdoors in the hot Northern California heat, which as of now is about 103 degrees outside, and shows no signs of letting up by the time we film.

During shooting I will try to keep you as updated as possible.  I will be doing video blogs, and hopefully each day I will have something for you to see, so definitely keep looking at this page right here.

Here we go.

Casting Change for “May 17th”

 

 There were some complications with Anthony Trombetta, and those were him avoiding us and pretty much flaking on the entire thing.  It pissed me off at first, but then I realized I would rather just get an actor who actually cared about the project, instead of keep trying to get Anthony to show some enthusiasm.  In the end I found a new actor who I feel will play the part in which he is cast very well, and his name is Robert Shiple.  The site and everything will be updated soon, and that is really all that has happened since my last post.   So I welcome Robert aboard, and we all hope for the best.

In other news it is now July, and at the end of this month we will begin filming.  I am extremely stoked to get this thing going, and even more stoked for all of you to see it.  It is getting more and more hectic, and I think there is going to be more to write about soon, so get ready for more video blogs and such.  Also there will soon be some changes to the may 17th site which can be viewed at may17movie.com, so check that out as well.

Cheers.

“May 17th” Vlog #1