My Cousin's Husband

For those of you who know my cousin, Jen, you are blessed. For those of you who don't, trust me when I tell you she is just wonderful! I had fun when I was in college getting to stay at her house, and I really enjoyed the time she and her sister, Jill, came to Provo to stay with me. We don't get to see each other often enough, and especially now that Jen lives in Australia with her husband, Darran. He sent me this e-mail today and I want to pass it on. He is a movie maker and is working on a new project with great Christian values called The Playbook. I invite everyone to check it out. Project Update #3: We are truly blessed.

Posted by Darran Scott

As the days count down, we've been blessed with several more backers. We feel so blessed and grateful for the kind generosity shown by you all. And with only 7 days to go, we're now at 79% funded!!! Woohooo. To give you all an update on where things are at, we've been securing some wonderful locations and continue to tweek the script. We've attached some fine young (and not so young) actors which includes a beautiful 'animal' actor. 'Ella' is a 2 year old Golden Labrador who will feature as the family dog. She is well trained and is currently undergoing further training to teach her some behaviours that we will require of her from the script. One of the adorable things that Ella can do is 'say her prayers'. Whereby she places her paws up on a table or chair and drops her head between them. So cute! You can see pictures of Ella on our facebook page. If you haven't yet joined and liked our facebook page, we invite you to do so by visiting this link.http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/The-Playbook/268174842817 We've been very grateful in securing the support of the Inverloch Tourism Association. They've offered us so much in the way of help and suppport from accomodation for cast and crew, to catering, to securing sponsors and locations. For our American and other overseas friends, Inverloch is a beautiful little seaside town in the Bass Coast, Victoria, Australia. Set on a large inlet, it is regarded as a summer holiday town. A polished jewel in the glory box that is Bass Coast. This is where our film will be predominantly shot. We ask that you to please continue to get the word out about our film. We are setting for ourselves a goal of '100K x 2'. That is we are aiming to have a minimum of 100,000 people see the film at the cinemas and then sell a 'minimum' of 100,000 DVD units upon release. If we can do this we will have a very successful film on our hands and it will be because of YOU, our backers and supporters. Word of mouth is so important to our project. For those interested, our time line is the following. June 2011 - Continue development, financing, casting and locations. Negoiating sales leads July 2011 - Development Complete, begin contracting cast and crew. Continue with financing. Script workshops. Sales leads continue. August 2011 - Commence set building. Locations, cast and crew all locked in. Begin formal pre production. September 2011 - Begin rehearsals, finalise sets, wardrobe etc. First lot of incentives for backers sent out. 23rd Sep 2011 - Filming begins. 26th October 2011 - Filming concludes. 29th October 2011 - Post Production commences. (Editing, sound mix etc) January 2012 - First rough cut complete. Meetings with distributors. March/April - Intended release date. (TBC) Sincerely Darran Scott