“I have hunted you for a long time.”

Today is the first day of production on Spectre. It feels strange to be marking this post in the “production” category. This is both the first of that section, and the last of the pre-production one.

In a few hours, the cast and crew will show up at my house and we have an entire day of dress rehearsal, make-up tests, camera tests, discussion, food prep, prop creation, etc. There are SO many things to do! It’s both exhilarating and nauseating. How strange that after 15 years of imagining, 3 years of writing, and 1 year of active development… I’m still not as ready as I could be. We’ve done a WHOLE lot, and accomplished a great deal, but… wow.

So today Garin and Spectre will truly come to life for the first time. Like any babe in this world, they will come kicking and screaming and yucky all over. But the cast and crew are ready, and we’ll nurture this one to life. I trust in ourselves enough to know that it will grow into something we’re all proud of.

I’ll try to post as much as I can during the actual shoot. I set myself a goal of doing a daily End-of-the-Day post, but I don’t know if that’s realistic. Certainly not while we are camping early next week.

Let’s hunt.