While I was working at the aforementioned department store, I decided to adapt three scenes from my first screenplay, "castles" and produce, direct and edit it as a promo in order to sell the feature film version. I auditioned actors from "Dramalogue", rehearsed them, designed the sets, and later shot the ten minute production in one day, spending all of two hundred dollars. It was also Carl's debut as a videographer. Unfortunately, except for a few accidental good minutes of footage, the rest of it was shot with very low audio (the sound man claimed he was getting radio interference). I was thoroughly disappointed, mainly because I couldn't give the hardworking actors a perfect copy for their actor's reel. Years later, Hollywood being the small town that it is, it was rumored that the sound man, also an aspiring director at the time, had deliberately sabotaged my little production because he was jealous of my talent and had a crush on my male co-producer who I had a close, but platonic, friendship with.
