Ok, so no motto but we'll get there eventually. Today's meeting was really productive. I'm becoming more and more confident in my group's creative abilities as well as the prospect of us all having to go through this birthing process for our film over the next 8 weeks. The act of making a film is a daunting enough task in itself without you having to worry about whether or not your crew can perform as well.
Today was all about Megan's script and going through every paragraph, sentence and word to make sure we fully understood the script inside out. The aim was to leave the meeting that day having visualised every aspect of the script and having made sure we had covered all the holes we had found during our first team meeting. These were mainly the fact that the script was only 3 pages long, thus equating to 3 minutes, and a few minor details but having spoken to Robin at the lecture on Tuesday, I assured my group that this was actually a way for us to get more creative with our camera work rather than our writing skills so that was the attitude we took today.
In a bizarre twist, we ended up working from the middle of the script storyboarding and analysing every excrutiating action of our characters to ensure that they were in fact plausible and effective, all the way till the end of the script. We deliberated a while over whether we should change it and decided that it did require a little altering just to pump up the black comedy style we were going for in the middle. From there, we worked our way back to the beginning again, resorting to shot lists as we'd run out of spare paper, and writing down every shot type, angle, camera movement and action we could think of to enhance Megan's script. Along the way, we semi-acted out the dialogue pieces and also changed those as we thought that some lines just didn't really make sense when read aloud.
Finally, having done all that, we got down to business. We worked out we had 2 weeks to find actors and a location, extra crew members and to book everything we need for the shoot, which we are aiming to do around the 15th of May. Knowing this I think has really put us all into gear as we now only have 4 weeks to get everything absolutely organised. And as it turns out, we made need a second unit set up to film part of the script (this is still under consideration). At the end of the meeting, it was decided I would send out a casting call for actors on the AT2 website as well as sending them out to various agencies across Melbourne as well as start on the storyboard; Roland would scout out the locations he had seen on his way home the other day; and Louise would focus on revising all the info she'd need to remember for recording with the sound equipment. Unfortunately, due to disorganisation, Deanna couldn't find our meeting place and so missed out on most of the planning work but we showed her what we did in class and she was really happy with it which was awesome. I'm not really looking forward to sending out the casting calls just because we are dealing with slightly older actors who have probably experienced way more professional crews but I'm going to have to swallow that if we're going to make this film a success.
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