We settled on a title!

As some of you may or may not know Bruised and Battered was really only a working title, something I needed to call this project for my own sanity. Jay and I were never really happy with “B&B” as it became known in some circles, and had always told ourselves one of these nights we’d get really really falling down dr*nk and come up with a better name. Well here it is about a month later, and we still haven’t found the time to have even a few beers and brainstorm.

My co-captain and I were able to find some time last week to do some brainstorming. Jay was busy gallivanting around Florida looking at girls and working on some other film project … stay tuned, there will be more chops bustin’ on Jay later. Dave and I needed to come up with something quick (we had an artwork deadline of last Friday, which would include this production’s title), and had only a few hours to settle on it. We used the same method that named the Loaded Crows: we IMed stupid things to each other for an hour or two until one of us said … “wow, that doesn’t sound half bad.”

The complete title is “Basic Painting: An Introduction to Scenario Paintball @ West Point’s 2009 Spring Combat Classic.” heheheh, Basic Painting will do just fine for our first project’s title.

I should mention that Jay did cut his business / mini vacation trip a little short. Jay worked Thursday through Sunday and was expected to take another few days to himself to recharge the batteries and get our from behind a monitor. While I have a day job to distract me from this documentary, if he isn’t filming he is editing. The “Birdman” wasn’t due back until this Wednesday. Apparently all Jay could think about was editing our documentary instead of concentrating on the women he was supposed to be oggling while on vacation. He emailed me a couple of hours ago and let me know he touched down late last night, woke up early and put many of his ideas into a new *rough* version of our sizzle reel. Basically this is a really long (currently about 13 minutes) trailer that we will use to court sponsorships. I just finished watching it, and I have to say – this is the 4th version I’ve seen far, and every one is at least twice as good as its predecessor.

Yes, I did just mention “our first project.” With the momentum this little documentary project has begun to pick up, it is now entirely possible we may do another, or even turn this into a series.

I do have *huge* news, which of course relates to the fore mentioned artwork deadline. I’ve been dying to tell the world about this for the last week and a half. Of course one can’t count one’s chickens before they’re hatched, and I’m waiting on just the last little tiniest bit of paperwork before making the official announcement. Trust me, it will be more than worth the wait. Hopefully I’ll get to make another post tomorrow detailing it. You’ll all just have to keep reading!