BDM 311 Personal project.

With writing my script I had a few issues that needed to be cleared on behalf of the structure at the end. So with my general idea of having a hit man introduced in my early draft I have incorporated that character. Now with being so tired and writing the final draft for submission on Friday. I made the mistake of saving the script at an unwise hour in the morning. With opening it up I noticed I only saved 2 pages of it. This was due to my Final Draft program on my laptop that only lets me write 15 pages and I needed more than 15. So I had to save about 2 pages into another file. And did not save the 15 :( but still had the former draft so that was the one I submitted. In saying that I am still working on my other hit man draft.

Me and Don decided to bring the film students together on a joined Facebook page for support and the scheduling of the days also. There are about 9 film students in year 3 and everybody gets 4 days of filming so that is 36 days, a little bit over a moth. So we will all need to get organised and help each other out as much as we can.  

As I've mentioned before I have sourced a gym for one of my locations. But as a back up will visit another gym this week as I have not heard back from the former gym that I visited.

And I got a reply. I really like the former gym as a location but in the back of my mind I also want to be communicating with the people that run it as time is of the essence!

I took some photos and plan on sending them to that gym so the communication can, maybe, start again. I reckon it is not always a given for people to just accept film people to come in and say yeah we'll set the lights up here and the camera there. Might come over as overwhelming. And being on quit a few sets I know how a film crew can come over as intimidating.

Location, location. My idea was to use one of the empty rooms in our flat as a location for our short. But now that room has been taken by a new border and I'll have to look for a new location. Now Don has rented a room at the Living Space for a scene that he wants to shoot. I have talked to Don and we will both share the cost and I will film my scene in there also. The other good thing about the Living Space is it has a good view on the top of the building and it looks good at night so I want to incorporate that in my short also.

Now I also want to shoot a scene at the Invercargill airport and am in the process of sending them an e-mail.

I have also been working with my flatmate James Tobin on storyboards. Now these are his drawings but with my help. They will be very useful on set and during the blocking sessions and with my DOP !! Note these will not be the ones I will submit to my Directors manifesto as I have not done them myself but will be based on these ones, done by me.

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