Luke Pietnik - Once More Into the Breach!

Hello everybody. I'm being a bit cheecky by changing post titles so they don't have the date in them. They date automatically, and if you need to talk about something that happened a couple of days ago, just talk about it in the past tense. Anyway, I'm a bit of a busybody, and you will no doubt hate me for it. Moving on...

I managed to get everyone's segments of the script together and put together a final draft. Yipee! Now we can start storyboarding and planning locations and dates. There are one or two things that are subject to change once we start filming, namely the car that flies around a corner distracting Simon (the killer). It could just as easily be a bicycle or just a pedestrian running past. Anyway, we'll decide on that later. I know that Max also wanted to have the end scene run to the very end of the narrative that began the story. We could have a cut-down version of the scene, but a full one might be boring for the audience, and run over the alloted time we have. If we have room, we can tack it on the end in post.

regarding the meeting we had on thursday the 19th, We're thinking about using one of the university rooms as Simon's office, and shooting stuff that's set in the city first. Then I think, unless there's a change of plan, most of us will be travelling on the bus up towards Neepsend (did I spell that right?) to film a majority of the scenes near Amy's house. We might need a few days to get everything we need, but I think as long as we plan everying out properly, we shouldn't miss anythign important.

Additionally, Max and I wil be spending a good bit of next week in posession of a Marantz MP3 recorder, capturing ambiences and spot sound effects to various things in the script. We'll probably take a copy of the final draft with us, or knock up a reocrding list. It's important I think that we have a good variety of ambient sounds to create the right atmosphere for the film.

This is indeed an ambitious project. Chris and Malcolm's notes of caution at the pitching session are now coming back to haunt me. but I'm not worried, because we are a dedicated and depandable team, and I have every confidence that we have what it takes to produce a brilliant little thriller here.

Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more!