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Today, we marched in the 2012 San Francisco Pride Parade!

It was a long, beautifully sunny day, and we all had a great time. We were near very end of the parade, so we had a bit of a wait to even start, but we were entertained by the contingent from kink.com on the flatbed truck in front of us.

As we marched down Market Street we were between the Asexuals and people from a storage company wearing boxes (and their underwear) We passed out our entire stash of 2,400 buttons to the crowd, before we were halfway down the route!

Did you get a button today? Welcome!

Our goal in the parade today was to share our film with as many people as possible, so we can gauge the potential audience. Please share us with your friends and other fans of independent and queer film.

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We took a trip up to Guerneville and the Russian River, to scout locations. The area around there is beautiful, and we’ll be able to find everything we need.

ALL THE OTHERS WERE PRACTICE is a feature film set in San Francisco.

It’s about Jôrge.

It’s the post-gay romantic comedy of how Jôrge finds true love – how he learns that what you want from love and what you need from love, aren’t necessarily the same thing.

Filming begins in April 2013, bringing together some of the best Bay Area actors and artisans. The film celebrates the long cinematic history of San Francisco – creating beautiful images and compelling stories – on an independent budget.

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On Saturday August 20, we had a reading with the whole cast.

First, we read the script straight through, without stopping for questions. Hearing the characters come to life through these talented actors is a treat in itself. After a chat about questions that came up during the reading, we did a second reading, a bit in the style of a radio play.

We recorded the second reading, so that we could go back and hear the pacing of particular scenes.

The reading was tremendously helpful in refining the script, and seeing how the cast melds as a whole. Thank you to all of the actors who participated: Alex Moggridge, Chris Morrell, Kimberly MacLean, Bennie Bell, Chantelle Tibbs, Kathleen Antonia, Liam Vincent, Lawrence Radecker, Monterey Morrissey, Paris hunter Paul and Kathleen Park.

Read the Storyboards

Get a feel for how the film will look with these storyboards that illustrate the first four scenes from the film.
Storyboards are used in a lot of different ways in making a film. We are using storyboards to help reduce the cost of the production. The boards give us a chance to do a dry run of the entire film shoot, hopefully identifying any major obstacles while we still have a chance to figure them out.

By planning the entire film shot by shot, we can be very efficient on set. We will be able to shoot only what we need, and not waste time shooting footage that will never be used in the film. The storyboards give us a way to know exactly what needs to be shot every day of production, having this solid foundation allows us some freedom to experiment on set.

We hope you enjoy this visual reading of the film.

All the Others Were Practice is a movie about a queer guy, a gay guy. A homo-sexual. But he doesn’t wholly define himself as gay, or queer, or homosexual. He’s a guy. He works his job, hangs out with his friends, hopes to find love with the perfect guy.

In America, the word gay is associated with so many different people and groups that it has almost lost any concrete definition. Until about the ninteen-fifties gay meant really happy, unless you were a queer man in which case it was code for a queer man. In the sixties, the media replaced their term for a queer man, homosexual, with gay. It’s been used as a badge of honor and a term of derision to describe a vast array of people and behavior. To a lot of people today, gay just means not-cool.

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We were in the San Francisco Pride Parade!

It was perfect weather as we walked down Market passing out stickers, between peta and HomeDepot. Where else will HomeDepot and peta march together? It makes me think of what we’re trying to do with the characters in All the Others Were Practice. Queer people are everywhere, and we do everything.

Marching in the parade today, we weren’t able to watch any of it, but I was able to catch the sanitation dance crew rehearsing in the line-up, and they’re one of my favorite contingents.

Jôrge is happy. Yes, he’s alone, but he’s happy.
He has no problem getting dates, it’s relationships that confound him.
And he doesn’t want to complicate his life with a relationship.

He works in his cubicle, hangs out with his friends, sits around his apartment. He’s fine!

Then Jôrge gets set up with up with Larry. Larry is the quintessential gay – toned body, on-trend clothes, rich. He’s right off the magazine page. He seems perfect. The only problem is that he’s a bit shallow, and vain, and entitled.

When Jôrge accidently dumps Larry, he sets off a string of unlikely dates. Suddenly, every guy in town seems to notice Jôrge.

Terry, his long term crush, notices him. Ivan takes him dancing.
He meets George. George with the beautiful house, the cute smile, and what’s in that little box? Is that a wedding ring?
And what about Tony, where does he fit in?

With so many choices, how does Jôrge know true love from the practice rounds?

On Sunday February 27, we had a script reading with six very talented actors from the Bay Area reading all 34 roles.

The table reading was tremendously helpful, and the script received very well by the cast and small audience. The reading illuminated a few spurs in the story, and they have been smoothed out.

The script is ready to move into pre-production.