Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
In front of the camera
I haven’t done a Vlog (video blog) in a while.
Like…6 months. In fact I think THIS is the last one. There’s been a lot of shit flying around since then, and it’s also frustrating that I’m still where I was then. The treatment of the film. Ugh.
Axe and I have to fight a lot to not become depressed with our progress on the movie. The fact is that we’re not classically trained in screenwriting or script development…anything. We taught ourselves. So there tend to be a lot of pitfalls that somebody has already managed to fall into when they were back at Juilliard or whatever hell they attended.
As such we tend to run into walls, and then backtrack, all the while time keeps on ticking. Well…yesterday we realized we’d finally run over a huge hump. Axe recently did a new draft of our structure, and he took some long strides. His new structure pulled together some character arcs in a really tight package, and gave answers to a lot of our logic questions. They aren’t perfect answers, but they’re a good footing to launch from. And then I stepped up.
And crushed the bitch. After a little while with the new structure, I essentially pulled the rest of the story together, and last night when I explained it to Axe, he did some backflips. The rest of this week, our Production Hours will concentrate on Treating the new structure, and by the end of next week, it should be completed.
We’re close.
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