Hello All
I actually started this Blog a few years ago when I was creating another project about ALL young caregivers, which is still going on.
However in the last year I have changed back to another idea I had about 3 years ago and that is to document young caregivers who have a parent with Early Onset Alzheimer’s. And as most of you who are reading this know that the project Much Too Young has begun.
This will be the first of many BLOGs about my journey making this film. The Blog will also be supported by monthly short web videos and of course twitter/facebook updates as well. But why would I document the journey of making this film, well it was a few months ago when my wife asked me how is making this project going to affect you? I really hadn’t thought about the fact that I am going to document families that are going thru what I went thru about 10 years ago. I have already done some filming and can see some similarity in each situation, but how will it affect me? I am not sure.
People often ask me if it is hard to watch the first film I made about my dad called Forgetful Not Forgotten, but my answer is alway the same. It doesn’t bother me to watch it as I look at in a different way. I look at it now as a film that has helped a lot of people. It is a film that is used by many different organizations as a training tool, and I am happy with that, and I have seen it so many times that it doesn’t affect me to watch it, but this is different.
This time I will actually be there witnessing each family go thru some of the same situations I went thru, so you will just have to stay tuned to see how and if this project affects me.
We are done preproduction and you can see the first short video I have put together about that on my Vimeo page, however you have to have a password to see this first video as it is one for people who donated to my campaign. I will post others that are public soon.
Production starts soon and this will also be a learning experience for me as I am working with a small crew and the process is a lot different from my dad’s film, but I am glad to get it off the ground.
Talk to you soon!
Chris
Vimeo
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Much-Too-Young/696273550442357