The Projects have been chosen!
Final Major Project is well under way and the productions have been chosen. Five short films will be produced this year from our third years and we're all crewed up and heading for pre-production.
Chapter Five - It Was The Best of Times
The projects I have been chosen to work on for Final Major Project are The Cell and The Heist. I will be working as Writer and Editor on The Cell as well as assisting Drew with anything he needs throughout the production. I will be working only as Writer for The Heist. This means two of my scripts will be going into production and I will be producing the final edit for The Cell, which should be enough to get graded on. I am super excited and hopeful for working on The Cell. Everyone on the crew is highly experienced in their roles and I find them all to be reliable and friendly people to work with. The Cell should be a fun collaboration amongst us all and we're also the smallest crew out of the whole five productions, which means we should be a tight connected unit, making it more manageable and less to worry about.
The Heist I am still on the fence for, I'm slightly worried about the size of the production and the challenges that the crew might face going onwards. I feel like for the film to work correctly, the scale needs to be much larger than a student film can probably pull off. The cast for the film will be quite large and the locations may prove to be troublesome to lock down. This may lead to rewrites and redrafts changing the film to something that eventually won't even be the same. I really do hope that this production can pull it off and I'm willing to help out where I can, but I can't say I'm optimistic with the chances off pulling this off.
After speaking and working with Drew about The Cell and trying to figure out what this film will be, we've seemed to find each other coming up with similar ideas and working on the same wave length. We know we want this to be a manageable student film but for the concept and the story to make it so much more. Much of the film will take place in a cell limiting the location to one controllable area that we can work in and change as much as we need. Cast is also going to be quite limited, and mainly will be carried and performed by one actor. We're working on a real character piece which will hopefully create mystery around the story and keep the audience interested. We're aiming for a 10-15 minute short and have already begun on the story and close to a first draft.
The Heist is very much my own story so I am able to run wild with it here during the early days. I have spoken to Tori and we both found it best that I just crack on with the first draft of the script and from there on she can annotate and make changes that she finds necessary for the second draft and I find this to be beneficial to both of us, as well as beneficial to the story and creative process. As Christmas is round the corner, I will have three weeks away from uni where I can write and re-write drafts of scripts for both The Cell and The Heist, ready for when we get back in January. Hopefully this will speed pre-production up for both productions.
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