Bought a lottery ticket today. Lucky 13? No, of course not. It's stupid isn't it? You don't believe in 13 being an unlucky number, because it's all about Judas being the thirteenth apostle, and Friday the 13th is also supposed to be unlucky - god knows why - so you don't believe that... so why am I buying a ticket believing that because I don't believe it that somehow this will be my lucky day? People are very strange and myself doubly so.

Final day of prep for the video project. All four teams now have stories to write, have chosen two tunes from the CD I made, and are all primed and ready to be fired off into a life of misery wanting to make films for the rest of their lives. Well some of them I hope.

I found out that a few well known production companies accept pitches from first time producers, and I'm thinking it would be worth a punt to send the synopsis of "The Sacrament" to a few of them to see if we can get development money. Getting the actors to come back to film the rest of the movie will be hard enough so hopefully some money might make it easier.... wait, did I talk about this yet?

Okay, plan B is in action now. I'm going to film the opening sequence and as much of the rest of it as we can afford to get in the can in Easter break, then the rest of it in the first few weeks of Summer vacation. I can use the opening sequence as a marketing and money gather tool. Plus it might persuade the actors to return. I'm hoping that people having done some will want to finish it and come back for more.

I really hope they like the story and believe in the project, but it's hard to take on other people's passions, I know. Plus it'sjust occuring to me I have a real problem on my hands as most of the actors I'm using will be graduating and going off into the real world come the beginning of the summer, getting agents, getting real movie work. I might lose out or at the least have to wait a long while to get my people back. It's a tricky manouver.

Anyway, I'm going to write to everyone I can think of to get money to make the film. I even thought about writing to Madonna. Well she only lives a few miles away over in Wiltshire. She might be interested in funding a local film or at least helping get money for it. I mean she's married to a filmmaker so she must know how hard it is to get money to make films if you are not already in the business.

Suffice to say I will leave no stone unturned to make this film. I have to do it this year because too many years have gone by and I've not done it. I have my production designer and I'm really hoping to persuade a friend of mine to do the storyboard, but he's a busy bloke and I don't want to eat into his time. Let's see if we can get some production money then I'll be able to pay him and it won't be so much of an issue. I'm looking for a really hot 3D artist too, because although I could do all the backgrounds myself, producing and directing and writing are enough of a full time job as it is. Well see. It all hinges on the money to hire the camera and monitor. Get that and we got ourselves a movie.