I KNOW WHAT YOU NEED (2005)
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      We got permission to shoot in numerous places including a restaurant called The Vista, a coffee shop called Cafe Plaid, an entertainment facility called Perfect Swing and numerous places at the University of Oklahoma. We found people who would let us use their homes for interior shooting. We also found numerous bands that would let us use their music. We were ready to go.

     I made a schedule that would encompass about 10 days of shooting and shot the movie in about two weeks, working Monday through Friday on it each week. We had problems, but all movies do. We had attitudes arise and certain players grew to greatly dislike each other as the production moved on. There are still actors who would not give each other the time of day if they saw each other on the street today. One actor completely disappeared and we had to rearrange script points to eliminate him from the script. The 12th Street Kids production team fell apart and I lost the people who was supposed to do our score. We faced great difficulties with a couple of attitudes on the set as well.

     Regardless, we trudged forward and finished the movie. I edited it together over the next few months. I then tried to figure out why it was not working. I realized that, despite all the additions to the script to make it move faster, there was still points of the movie where people were just sitting around talking. I thought about it and finally, in mid 2005, I decided to give the script a quick little re-write. The character we lost earlier was re-inserted into the narrative and cast with local film actor Colin Warde. We called back Kevin and shot a scene with them, which would replace a long scene of dialogue between Kevin and Megan. I then removed another long exposition between Kevin and Megan completely. I did some voice over work to add to a scene, but unfortunately it was not done as I would have liked it to be done, despite my urging, and I had to work with what I was given. Needless to say, despite the beautiful shooting by Boots, I was still held hostage by certain actors.

     After shooting Colin's two scenes and placing the voice over work in the movie, I realized it was the best it would be. And thanks to the pressure I put upon myself of making the best calling card movie I could, it turned out to be just another movie. Don't think I am not proud of it, because I put a lot of work, a lot of heart and a lot of sweat into making this movie. I just don't feel it is what I wanted when I originally said I wanted to make Stephen King proud.

     Well, the movie was shown in Bangor, Maine, the Netherlands, and Argentina at the Mar Del Plata International Film Festival. The one thing I heard the most was that the sound was off. I brought aboard a sound designer named Jesse Harlin who wrote a score for two of the scenes and then mastered the sound levels throughout the movie. I threw on a commentary track, put back in the deleted scenes as bonus features and sent it out again to be seen in the new format in the Netherlands again this year.

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