ROM - A film by Ben Sliker and Matthew Bumby

[Ben Sliker]

[Ben Sliker]

CLEAN SLATE PRODUCTIONS in association with INFINITE HOURGLASS presents

ROM - Read-Only Memory

STARRING
Tim Holt IMDB WEBSITE
Michael Thomas IMDB
and Tom Olson as 'The voice of OZ'

SHOT BY
Jason Fararooei IMDB WEBSITE

MUSIC BY
Chris Hurn WEBSITE IMDB

PRODUCED BY
Benjamin Sliker
Matthew Bumby

WRITTEN BY
Benjamin Sliker
Matthew Bumby

DIRECTED BY
Benjamin Sliker IMDB WEBSITE

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Matthew Bumby

DIALOGUE AND SOUND EDITING
Joe Johnson IMDB
Lana Bolin

BOOM OPERATOR
Tom Olson

GRIP
Kevin Anderson

CRAFT SERVICES
Jennifer Sliker
Marie Sliker

SPECIAL THANKS TO
Amanda Sliker
Simon and Lyn Thomas
Bradley Mate
Joe Saba

[Ben Sliker]

Daniel's Blog:

Day One:
i can't believe i'm doing this. No matter how much i write, nothing is going to bring him back. This morning brings the familiar ring ring. It's mom. Some overpaid psychologist told her to start a journal. Something something grieving process. The usual lines, she's worried so i should be worried. She wants me to write one. I tell her grieve her way i'll grieve mine. That comforts me but doesn't do much for her. So... I bite the bullet and my tongue to type you this.

I'm not sure what she expects me to write. Like words provide an answer, it's numbers for me now. The ones and the zeroes. They make sense, they're logical, i just can't keep them all in my head. I need somewhere to store them. Browse them. Reference them. Process them. I think if i did i could forget them. I could forget him. I could stop thinking about how Jason liked long baths.

Day 17:
I've run out of books to read and, more importantly for this exercise, words to write. Not that anything I've wrote hasn't felt like one big rambling mess. Most of the time I just keep asking myself 'Why bother?'

If I could sleep I would. I end up reading Shakespeare until i fall asleep and then wake back up in the morning, still sitting up against the headboard of my bed, no feeling in my legs from the weight of my Library Shakespeare pressing down on them all night. I don't know why I started reading it again anyway. Haven't picked up those plays since college. Not like you'd read King Lear to a six-year old anyway. I'd end up with Baum or Suess in my lap, they always had a way of making Jason smile. I assume it was the book, not the way I read it to him. No way to know cause I don't read out loud anymore. I used to. To myself. To Jason. It's different when there's no one there to listen.

SELECT BTS:

End of Day 1. Cleaning.

BATHROOM DAY 2 AFTER CLEANING AND PAINTING

NOTHING CAN BREAK JASON'S CONCENTRATION, NOT EVEN A SHINY MAC LAPTOP

ROCKING THE 70-200 ON A ZAZASLIDER PROTOTYPE

CHALKBOARD PAINT = INSTANT MISE EN SCENE

TIM LOVES TUBES

BEN WATCHES JASON ROCK THE FISHEYE ON THE SPIDERBRACE

[Ben Sliker]

GRABS!

[Ben Sliker]

script written. script refined. script scrapped. script written. script refined. script sent out for feedback. script scrapped. script written. script re-written 7 more times.

shooting Feb. 9th.

[RodThompson]

Damn it! Badassery inbound...

[Nemesis TS]

Well the poster has my interest for sure... Can't wait.

[ramsaur]

Title caught my attention. Sounds very interesting and looking much forward to it.

[jasonthewho]

Oh hi der!

[ZazaCast]

BooYah...Sliker in the house...take cover!