Kick-Off Conference Call

Monday, May 5, 2008 | 9:09 AM

- Hello all, this is Stuart Chait, and I'm the writer of 'Pushing Twilight'. Steve (the director) has already updated you on how we heard the amazing news of being selected as the winners of this challenge, so now it falls on me to get to the business side of things. (All you writers out there, get used to this - the director always gets to have all the fun.)

Today we started the real work, bright and early at 9 AM, with our 'kick-off' conference call. We spoke with all the creative minds behind this 'After Hours' project - representatives from IFC, Red Bull, and Stun Creative, the production company who's going to help Steve and I bring this whole thing to fruition.

I have to admit, I started off pretty nervous, and let Steve do most of the talking. After all, he'd already been in contact with IFC, and I was hearing a lot of new voices for the first time. But slowly I think I started to get into things, as we both got to talk up our backgrounds and what we thought of winning this amazing opportunity (did I use that description already?...I may have to start using a thesaurus while writing these entries...)

Soon, we were launching into our proposed episode breakdown for the series, which Steve and I had gone over the previous night till around 1:30 AM (the first, I'm sure, of many long nights to come). I think I did most of the talking from here, probably in a rambling fashion. But everyone managed to stay awake (always a positive sign) and seemed happy with the breakdown, even if it was a little...let's say...'ambitious'.

We closed the call with how the process will work from here (all that logistical stuff about who calls who, etc.) There'll be notes on our breakdown coming soon, especially on how to shoot this thing on a realistic timeline and budget...but that's the fun part.

Right now, I'm still a little in awe...and I can't wait to get started.