Jean, mission from God explained is making "Revivin' Romance" movie

Dear Jean,
you asked what is "mission from god?"

I'm 60. On bad days I feel like 42.My true religion is sailing.Every sailor's big dream is to sail into stars reflecting off mirror waters and make love with his beautiful first mate. Preferably on a cushioned deck.

The challenge is finding a beautiful first sailing mate. Beaches of the world are littered with beautiful women. But few want to get their pretty asses wet sailing.

So here is how I got the idea for my movie plot and why it is a "mission from god."

Actually, I won't tell you. Much. That's the movie. Just: three years ago, I had just broke up with this snobby, but skilled charmer, who went sailing with me on first date and then for three years would not, who critizied me for being a barbarian who spoke uneducated English, claimed the only thing I did right was make her deliriously happy SO I prayed for Divine Intervention for a woman who would sail and not critize my English. Next hour, I accitently researching St. George on internet met this PHD profesor, who jokingly invited me sailing on the Ob Sea: "Siberia bee must exotic fur Amerikan."
I went.
She could sail into the wind, it is called "beating," very tricky like very good editing, and she could play every wind shift, every wave slap -- my dream woman. "Tanya" thought I was a "primative," not rich, old, and a hell a lot of fun. Besides, as a "primative" building contractor I fixed up her condo and was "useful" and great with her kid.But: "you can good join bodies, but not join lives, not join dreams."

I returned to USA to plot.

The challenge was to get this beautiful natural sailor under life time contract. Tricky since she lived 11 time zones away...
Siberia and quite happy there with friends and family and skiing, and good career.And her kid she'd lose to her rich banker ex husband if she went to America.

Since my strength is story teller, Content Creator, I wrote her
scene by scene day by day, week by week, a story how this Sailor
like me returns to Siberia and shows this snobby professor like her that he has PhD in Love and knows how to keep Romance alive forever. So they marry. End of the fictional Act 2.

Real life Act 2 was I welcomed back to Siberia for "negoiations and examintions if professor award sailor candidate PhD in Love."

Too much, I bore you. Back to movie. A year later, I am in hosiptal in Detroit. Almost died from internal bleeding from Advil causing internal bleeding. I look out window. Snow coming down. I am broke. But confronting death make me think about legacy: great roofs,(by day I am very practical roofing contactor, not dreamer) my PhD. microbiology son researching AID vaccine --- no. I have insight on oldest human problem: worse than wars, disease --- it is how do men and women after initial thrill of sex ---keep romance alive?

Then my "little voice, my inner little voice of wisdom" tells me,
"That is your mission from God. Tell that story. Make that movie.
Call that Church you bid 6 months before, sell the roof. Buy a camera. Go to Wayne State University, smart up and make that movie."

I call, check out of hospital,write Church an inspired letter for their funding, and 5 hours later that same day I have $30,000 Contract.
Next day I register to go back to college after 30 years, cream my kid classmates, and reading a magazine at media department buy a JVC GYDV500 camera.

HD was not in magizines then.

Now reading Billips, I think he is right:4:1:1 is not for serious screen. Could make DVDs.

Writing this, I hear my little voice again chatting: "sell more
church roofs. Rewrite that script. Content is King. Be ready to
go to Siberia this winter. If you shot some scenes on JVC DV500 as trailers, you could get funding. Gmasonmd is right make movie now. You started 2 years ago. Quite wasting time. Hell, shoot Grosse Pointe scenes now. At least, start capuring images of flowers and trees budding as Spring time out takes."

But I lust for HD cam. Damn "little voice" is chatting again, "polish that script, and the camera will come."

Jean, are you not glad you asked?

Ed
PS see Shear email in next post. Thanks for your savy suggestions.Also CMOS info is there. Trying to connect dots I think that $15,000 CMOS HD cam is feasible.
thanksagain.