Letter to Crew and Cast

Hopefully everyone survived the downfall and subsequent re-rise of western civilization. I spent 48 hours without power, the first 20 forgetting that I had a propane bbq out back, hoping that I wasn't going to stave to death... It has made me think about how delicate the strings are the hold the world as we know it together. I imagined our movie being halfway through production and the the power goes out for good... Or even worse, being done and never having a way to watch it again. I do not believe that it is all about to fall right now, but there will be a day when DVD players don't work, our formats become antiquated, whatever we have done will float away into the ether. That saddened me. In a way, I think that if I don't have something to show for what I have done, then it didn't really happen. Maybe that is just a vestige of being a videographer, of being so attached to the camera, and letting the camera say the things that I cannot. Motion pictures and memory are tied in many ways, and the best thing about them is that they can be shared. There is immense power in that sharing, a kind of validation that doesn't happen anywhere else, and that seems to be something that draws me to the motion picture, and all forms of communication.
But something about this line of thinking does not seem right. Maybe this production and everything we have ever done, our lives, are more like zen gardens. Ephemeral, temporary, beautiful. Maybe the need to hold on to these things - or the symbols that represent them is a foolish and futile effort. We exist, we did things, we were great, or not great, and that's what we have...
But the real reason that I am writing this is to inform all of you of the good news. We have found a Production Manager / Assistant Director. Her name is Vinessa Knowles (that's Vinessa with an I) and I have worked with her before over the summer on a production where I was the DP, Brad was the Gaffer (they should really make a new position on film crews called Monkey - someone who knows a lot about everything and is around to assist at a high level whatever needs to be assisted, like a PA on steroids and crack - that would more accurately describe what he did) Geerah was the Art Director and Ashley was her assistant. The point being that I have worked with her and trust her. She was the most competent person at her job on the set, and she is the reason the movie got made despite the Director not having a really clear vision and my grandiose (nearly unattainable) vision of a near future dystopia. So she is the new point person for everything schedule, money, location, time, food, whatever, anything that is not intention, character, being in the moment, color, shape, line, you know, things like that...

Morgan writer/director