Ok, right now i'm supposed to be meeting the others and discussing script changes but instead I'm at home cluthing a hot water bottle. They said they'd keep me posted but I always feel guilty when something like this happens. I guess I can't really help being ill at the worst possible time and I did at least try. I made it all the way to the bus stop.
I've spoken to my flat mates and they're fine with us filming here so it's not all doom and gloom today. And although I haven't told the others yet (was supposed to today, of course) but I've found a potential voice for the phone operator. My boyfriend wants to be a voice actor and something to start off his portfolio, even this small, would help him a lot. He seems very excited about the idea despite it only being a few lines so now I really hope the others will agree. He lives in Finland so I hope there's no problem with him sending sound files. He's sent some to me before.
Well the pain's starting to go now so I'll do something constructive with my time and work on the step outline.
Oh yeah, in my last post for some reason I said that Genie is the director. She's not, she's the producer. I hope I get it together at some point...
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Week 3- Riding into battle
Whew, it's been a hectic few days. And it can only get more hectic from here. But for sanity's sake let's not think about that now.
Last Wednesday I took the Z1 camera training and on Sunday me, Genie and Khyan did a 15 shot exercise which went very well, even if it was very spontanious.
I'll go over today's production meeting based on my very haphazard notes.
We've been put in touch with some potential actors to play Tom and Lucy so we've sent them an e-mail asking them when they are free for an 'audition.' We plan to meet them first individually and then get whoever we choose for Tom and Lucy together so we can see how they interact. But if they're drama students they should be pretty used to acting with others.
Next step was the arrangements for the re-write. Apart from the ending, there's very little that really needs changing (thank you Steve!). Up until now we've been saying 'it would be good if we did this' but we've realised we now need to be more certain about what we're going to do. So this Thursday we'll all be meeting up to discuss script changes.
Everyone in the team now has their official roles. Khyan was selected as director as he showed a lot of potential during the 15 shot exercise. Genie is director since she is more practically minded. So I'm filling the dual roles of director of photography and stage manager (I get the clapper board! Yay!) To be honest, I would have liked to direct but I'm very reserved and don't feel I'm quite ready for it yet. But hopefully some day in the future I'll get a chance to direct something.
There were a few other small things we brought up like where are we going to get a fruits basket and what costumes will we use.
So now we all have tasks to do by next week. Genie is writing up the re-drafted script after the meeting on Thursday, Khyan is doing character profiles and I'm doing a more detailed step outline, based on the basic one I've already written, which will be used for the storyboard.
Ok then, from here it's onwards and upwards and straight to the moon!!
Last Wednesday I took the Z1 camera training and on Sunday me, Genie and Khyan did a 15 shot exercise which went very well, even if it was very spontanious.
I'll go over today's production meeting based on my very haphazard notes.
We've been put in touch with some potential actors to play Tom and Lucy so we've sent them an e-mail asking them when they are free for an 'audition.' We plan to meet them first individually and then get whoever we choose for Tom and Lucy together so we can see how they interact. But if they're drama students they should be pretty used to acting with others.
Next step was the arrangements for the re-write. Apart from the ending, there's very little that really needs changing (thank you Steve!). Up until now we've been saying 'it would be good if we did this' but we've realised we now need to be more certain about what we're going to do. So this Thursday we'll all be meeting up to discuss script changes.
Everyone in the team now has their official roles. Khyan was selected as director as he showed a lot of potential during the 15 shot exercise. Genie is director since she is more practically minded. So I'm filling the dual roles of director of photography and stage manager (I get the clapper board! Yay!) To be honest, I would have liked to direct but I'm very reserved and don't feel I'm quite ready for it yet. But hopefully some day in the future I'll get a chance to direct something.
There were a few other small things we brought up like where are we going to get a fruits basket and what costumes will we use.
So now we all have tasks to do by next week. Genie is writing up the re-drafted script after the meeting on Thursday, Khyan is doing character profiles and I'm doing a more detailed step outline, based on the basic one I've already written, which will be used for the storyboard.
Ok then, from here it's onwards and upwards and straight to the moon!!
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Week 2
Hello and welcome to Jessica's blog for the Making a Film module! Here I'll be recording all that happens during the film making process. The title says week 2 not week 1 because there wasn't that much to write about last week.
The script I'll be working on is called Hold and was written by Steven Sutton. It's a very basic plot about a man, Tom Vale, being put on hold for a long time while trying to pay his gas bill and coming up with stranger and stranger things to entertain himself. I remember talking to Steven about it last semester and he said it's based on an actual incident that happened to him. I think that's what makes the story so great even though it's so simple. It's a situation that almost everyone has been in and the humour and race against time element makes it interesting and hopefully it should be fun to watch too.
Although it seems like an easy film to shoot (one of the reasons I wanted to work on it, but don't tell anyone!) we found a few problems in the first team meeting today.
We seem a little unsure about the ending. In Steven's script Tom makes a long line of dominos that is knocked down when he finally gets through to the operator on the phone. An alternative is the dominos knocking the phone cord out the socket just as he reaches his deadline. The prospect of setting up and filming lines of dominos seems very daunting. Giant Jenga was another idea but we found out it costs about £60. Another option would be giant dominos that are about 10cm tall.
This week all 3 of us will be working on the treatment so by next week it'll be solved.
Also, I should say that there probably won't be any pictures on here for a while because I can't find my camera's usb cable.
The script I'll be working on is called Hold and was written by Steven Sutton. It's a very basic plot about a man, Tom Vale, being put on hold for a long time while trying to pay his gas bill and coming up with stranger and stranger things to entertain himself. I remember talking to Steven about it last semester and he said it's based on an actual incident that happened to him. I think that's what makes the story so great even though it's so simple. It's a situation that almost everyone has been in and the humour and race against time element makes it interesting and hopefully it should be fun to watch too.
Although it seems like an easy film to shoot (one of the reasons I wanted to work on it, but don't tell anyone!) we found a few problems in the first team meeting today.
We seem a little unsure about the ending. In Steven's script Tom makes a long line of dominos that is knocked down when he finally gets through to the operator on the phone. An alternative is the dominos knocking the phone cord out the socket just as he reaches his deadline. The prospect of setting up and filming lines of dominos seems very daunting. Giant Jenga was another idea but we found out it costs about £60. Another option would be giant dominos that are about 10cm tall.
This week all 3 of us will be working on the treatment so by next week it'll be solved.
Also, I should say that there probably won't be any pictures on here for a while because I can't find my camera's usb cable.
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