Film Project
Having to move houses and sort everything out for that has reaalllyyyy cut into my time to work on my major project. I might have mentioned before, that I'm making a trailer. Yes, there's that, but I also need to have a feature length story made for it. Mr Mime (Sorry, Patrick *smirks to self*) wants to see a structural overview, a beat sheet of that, and then bits of the story written up in an AV Script, by next Friday. As of 6:30pm Wednesday night, I've properly written up about 10% of the thing. Like, I know the story, I just have to have it written out. Ahhh. Hopefully I'll be fine. The final av script and everything isn't due until Friday the 14th (I think), which should be plenty of time for me, actually
"The saviour, the saviour, the saviour. He is not gone, he is not gone..."
Okay. Now it's Thursday night. I spent the day vacuuming carpet that's never been vacuumed/writing moar story. I've gotten up to the start of Ko's Journey to find Rotedodi. (The Robot/Teddy/Doll/Dinosaur thing, her favourite toy from childhood.) At this stage, she's met the witchy woo, and is now a kid. She's just run into her first character that her imagination is creating. He's kind of based on Skull Kid from Zelda, looks wise.
Anyway. He's going to lead her towards his "Saviour", which Ko thinks is Rotedodi, but is soooooo not. The strange Skull Kid like dude is a bad guy, and is leading her towards a .... terrible fate.... (I'M SO SORRY XD) But yeah. Leading her towards something bad because conflict yadda yadda yadda it makes story, and brings in the next event of Ko's imaginative journey to find Rotedodi.
I've also introduced Ko's brother Joe, and established how much he cares for his sister over his girlfriend.
Also also there is a character called "Brad", who briefly appears at the start, who is obsessed with apples. He eats 20 of them a day. Slightly based on a friend of mine. Who eats apples. Weeeee look at my terribly prose style of writing that I know I'm just going to transfer it to screenplay later on. So there's NO THINKING ALLOWED.
Ahhmmm. I'm procrastinating now. I just feel so tirreed. But I don't want to go hommmmeee. Because I have to drive and I hate driving when I'm tired. Ah. I just checked the time. Now I'm breaking curfew for my licence. Great. :I THANKS, INTERNET.
Photography
In photography we did more dark room stuff. I developed a contact sheet. Back in the classroom we all got given these fancy pencils that you use to mark the contact sheets, to help decide which photos to use. Nobody wanted to use the yellow ones. So we all used the red ones. It was a grand time.
Film Class
Film class this morning (friday now) we had table reads of our scripts. I shared the first 6 pages of my story, and got some pretty fantastic feedback. Oh my gosh, what did I even just hear? This is when my modesty starts to come through. I... don't even know how to feel right now.
The 6 pages of the story that got read, according to classmates and tutor, were compelling. It had an attention grabbing opening, and interesting characters. The little details and quirks scattered throughout were an amusing little addition. It was apparently like reading a storybook, which is brilliant, because that's what I am after. Ahm. The words "Auteur" in conjunction with "It felt like the writer is saying something" were mentioned. Ho-ly-shit.
Now. There is a lot of emotion in the story. And the class were worried that a trailer would not do the story justice, in terms of bringing out the emotion. The idea of making a teaser was suggested by Patrick. Instead of making a 2 minute trailer, I could make a 10 or so minute long teaser, finishing on a cliff hanger (which would be after Skull Kid up there leads her off to find his saviour.) This is the first time that the idea has crossed my mind. I still plan to write up the rest of the story, and turn that into screenplay, but instead of taking bits out of the story to make into a trailer, I'd only make the first few scenes. So. Basically my very own Beast of Fawkes project, aha. This means that the two Ko characters change priorities as to who gets the most screentime. Ahm. I might need an animators help with creating some of the fantastical elements, then. Floating orbs and what not. I need to find 7 actors. Ohhhhh god I hate casting. Wait a second. *sheepishly chuckles* Since Ko is based on me, and she needs to have longboarding skills, and three quarters of the same personality, and the fact that I am going nowhere near DoPing or Camera Opping my own film this year, can I just play Ko? Ahaa that makes things easier. Right. I just need to find a Brad, a Joe, a Shariah, a Liza, a kid Ko, aaaand a few extras that I just remembered now :I And Skull Kid. Oh god, I need to make his costume. Oh god, the time. ahhhh. I need to shoot in a forest, a restaurant, a street, and a lounge. My lounge is way too tiny. Ahhh no, location scouting D:
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Now it is Friday night. I've calmed down from the hype. I can think rationally. And I come backed up with reasons as to why I'm going to stick with the trailer.
1) I've spent the last several weeks in the mindset of the trailer. Everything I've done up to this point, has been intended to have a trailer come out of it.
2) My intended real world outcomes, as mentioned a couple of weeks ago in my pitch, is to be a screenwriter. Let me put this in a way that will probably shock all of you: I don't want to make films. Rather, I want to write films. 80% of the reason as to why I chose the trailer project is because I'd get to have a feature length film story made by the end of it.
3) I want to be able to spend the majority of my time working on creating a beautiful piece of literature art. If I have to make a teaser, well then, the script for that is already finished (15 pages, multiple locations, multiple scenes, a lot of actors, a lot of days shooting worth). If I create a trailer, I can dedicate more time to develop the story into something that is truly exceptional. Which is what I want to be doing, in order to help develop my skills. Patrick said at the beginning of the semester, to those of us who were thinking of making trailers - that he is not going to let us see the trailer as easy way out. He would not let us just dilly dally around while everyone else is working hard. - NAY. I do not intend to "dilly dally around". I intended to push myself to make this feature story. I need it to be fantastical, to be emotional, to be spectacle, to be wondrous, to be a story. I need to.
4) Because, simply put, there is so much negative aura in my brain this year that if I dedicate less time for any more things that I love (in this case, writing), I will simply not be able to cope. I need to look after myself, first.
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