When a Baby Step Feels Like a Giant Leap

October 2, 2007 by Dave.

I’ve made a couple of moves in the last week that are important for a project I’m working on as well as a career move. I got back a connection I had lost a while back with a local public access studio in Arlington. I saw them again at the town fair in Arlington and they let me know a few things. They used to be owned by Verizon but they aren’t anymore. I lost contact with them at about the time when the town was thinking of taking over the studio from Verizon. The studio is available for use by anyone in town who pays $20 yearly-fee and gets trained in their new HD cameras and computer editing software. While this was back in the beginning of September, this past week I had enough in savings to pay the 20 bucks to the studio. So what this does is now gives me access to production and post-production equipment and drops my production overhead down to nothing and I get a chance to shoot whatever I come up with. This is a huge step for me considering money is the usual problem for me with producing anything.

The second thing is simply something I always do for any writing project (at least the really good ones). I’m creating my biographies and backstories for characters for a web series I’m creating. I can’t get into details about it right now, but I’m planning a web-drama that should hopefully go about 18 episodes, once a month, about 10 minutes each episode with the pilot episode going about 20 minutes. There should also be a decent web presence for it as well, and I’m hoping to launch it in January. I’m really psyched about this idea and really want to get to it. Now that I have a studio to work from, it should be a lot easier.

Of course, it’s anxiety provoking to be this close to actually getting something off the ground. That’s usually what happens to me: I blow it or blow off the opportunity. It’s like I can have the dream but not able to achieve it. Part of it had to do with fear, I guess fear of success. If it’s just a dream, it’s not dangerous. I got to get over it if I want to be successful.

I might post some of my progress on the project. I’ll definitely announce when this thing gets launched.

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