End of “Week One”

It has been a productive week in terms of forming anything decent for this production. I started the week by creating a work schedule for the next two weeks and meeting with Tony Grace about getting a 3rd Year crew. Luckily; the guys from M for Movies agreed to help me by filming the thing for me. Yey, I think, because I am grade A shite at technical stuff. Justification for this? Too busy writing my dissertation to learn how to do it and I would rather trust a boy with a camera than to pretend I knew what I was doing. In the past; I pretend I know what I’m doing and a microphone somehow -randomly – gets into the frame. I don’t know how the hell that happens because I am truely excellent and it is never my fault, ever.

See my point?

So – I enlisted a production assistant by the name of Ceylan. A friend of my sister; who isn’t doing very much at the moment and agreed to help. I’ve always wanted to employ somebody to follow me around with a black notebook transcribing my inner monologe. Ceylan fits nicely. she will come in handy during the actual filming dates. Mainly for my black coffee and taking pictures of the hot actor I am going to hire. I jest.

I had a meeting with Jason Robertson today. He suggests I rewrite my script. So I am going to re-write my script. When I have re-written my script (time-lined it for next friday); I will need to draw a storyboard (jesus-f-ing-christ) and plan a shot list to give to my boys by the following Friday. I aim to start filming this bad boy on the week commencing the 12th of March.

Originally I was going to have it filmed in Glasgow; however, it looks to me it might be easier to do it in Ayr. Oh marvellous. Jason suggested that I paint my flat a disgusting colour to symbolise rot and decay for my main scenes; however I live in a shiny, spangly new build yuppie condo with a large balcony and a shrine to Simon le Bon in my living room. I don’t want to make it look like a domestic hell-hole. Apparently scarifices must be made for the sake of art. We’ll see.

So; apart from that, that is everything from the realms of genericstudentfilms aka my brainhole. Until next Friday where I will invite you taste the flavour of my new script and to master at the skillz I developed as a young, budding graphic design student at Ayr College back in 2001. That is the longer version of saying that I am going to scan in a copy of my stick men storyboard.