March 25, 1998
Two boxes full of HONEYMOON VHS tapes, each with a label and cardboard
cover and shrinkwrap, showed up in my office today. (Apologies to
the diary reader who wanted to help me by making VHS copies--a hard disk
crash wiped out your name and address....) At home, I looked one
of the tapes over: the little defects on the soundtrack seem weirdly and
unnervingly magnified by the VHS transfer. But there's nothing so
egregiously defective about the tape that I would go back and fight about
it. This marks the semiofficial end of postproduction, even though
I hope one day to redo the sound track to reel two. Now I have to
start thinking about getting the film out into the world. I'm going
to have to force myself to bring the same energy to that task that I was
able to bring to the filmmaking--a big part of me is ready to call it a
day....
Bill has decided to put his producer's cap back on and help Donna and
me organize a screening. I've been talking to David Schwartz about
arranging a date at AMMI--I'd been shooting for late April, but Bill and
Robin will be out of town then, so we're now looking at May.
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