It's Character Building

Still trying to pin down the first draft of the script, getting there, but admittedly the progress has been a little bit slower lately. Patrick gave us some character questionaire sheets to help us to see 'test' the strengths of our characters. That was quite useful actually. Up until this point I've loosely had my characters in mind, but I knew I had a lot more work I would need to do on them. I actually ended up coming up with a few interesting elements that I think will help to solidify some of the themes I've been looking to incorporate. Sometimes it's difficult trying to judge how much character info needs to be appear specifically in the script, and how much needs to stay off-screen as background for the actors. But I guess that it's better to overwrite then pull things back later, than to underwrite.

The Wheels of Progress Are Turning

Having some time off over the last few weeks has been great - always good to recharge the batteries after a few months of solid work. It has also allowed me the space to ruminate on my short film idea for this semester. Because of that I've made a few positive changes. I've drawn up a step outline and I've been working on the script which I'm hoping to finish in the next few days. There are still some things I'm not certain about at the moment but I think I've made a good start. It will just be a case of chiseling away at it until it's ready. I'll be looking for feedback from various people to see what's working and what isn't.

There are quite a few themes i'm looking to explore in the film and I'm pretty happy with a lot of the ideas so far. I've got a few ideas on how the film should look and feel as well in terms of the colour palette, pacing and editing. If I had to make an analogy, I'd say that I'm happy with the raw materials, but I'm just figuring out how to fit them all together.

An important thing for me this year is making a polished product. Over the last few years I've made films which had some good things in them, but I know they weren't as good as they could have been, even if others found them entertaining enough. Might get into that in a bit more detail later. Anyway, I don't want to post anything too specific about my short film idea at the moment (especially not online), until I've got the script down. But progress is being made and that's the main thing.