Thursday, January 7, 2010

Film Journal Jan. 7th, 2010

Today spent a great deal of time working on Shilas and the Tomb. Everything went smooth. This project is going to be great, because I get to work with a lot of new people.

This will work as a silent film, Chaplin-esque, but a humours narrator, would really make it come to life. Almost like a video game narrator who comments on everything the character is doing. Like the voice in Space Quest. Also a very heavy sound design and score would work nicely.

Spent the whole day trekking along working perfectly with this script, then went and had a very productive meeting regarding it...

The next step on this script is distrubuting a shooting script/directors script, in which I describe the action and, roughly the shots needed. We plan on shooting this film tight and static, with stylized cut-aways and close ups. Also trying to decide whether to use a dolly or a steady-cam. This film, could potentially be the first in a series of 'From Beyond the Grave' tales in which our main character, Shilas, keeps getting new jobs in which he short cuts and ultimately gets punished for his lazyness. Maybe need to introduce a love interest that is always waiting for him, but he keeps getting stuck.

Shallow Glen...

Didn't touch today....although feel good about where we are going. Tomorrow I will look at all the notes and begin to compile a few rough plot lines that we can use, but overall it is going to need a major re-write.

C