What can't you do because of the virus?

All of my film and art plans have gone out the window.

My team and I talked all last year about how we would likely go into production for some shorts and a full-length dogma 95 inspired film by February or so, and then the pandemic came and swept all of that down the river. The main head of our group [R] was on a podcast talking about one of his previous works, our production company, and how we were planning on going into production on the dogma 95 project by June. That went about as well as you could imagine. We had a call maybe two weeks ago to discuss potentially meeting up to catch up (since we haven't seen each other all year) and where we're going to take things from here. We're more than likely not going to do anything until next year, but R gave us [me and another friend, M] some great news about opportunities that came up and is sure we can make something work before the December comes around. I want to be an optimist and believe we'll make something happen, but I think the most we're going to get is M doing an edit of one of R's old short films for one of said opportunities that came our way and a two-day shoot is out of the question. I don't know how much I can disclose about what's going on, but I'll know tomorrow if the meet up happens and I can still go.

Every year, life seems to punch me and my team down for one reason or another. But 2020 really hit us where it hurt, and that sucks. It's a real mixed bag for us if we have to wait until next year to get things rolling. On one hand, we'll probably be safer if the pandemic simmers down. On the other, depending on when we go into production, it's going to be hard or impossible for me to work since I'm slated to have major surgery in February and I'm going to be useless on the set if I'm not doing script supervising, maintenance, or other small potatoes bits. Thankfully everyone is understanding, but I'd rather not bog us down with not being able to do heavy lifting or having a major range of motion.