filmmaking
We had a meeting Sunday where I finally got to put actual real live faces to the characters' names in the script I've been living with for the past three months. Our producer made the exciting announcement that we're not stopping at the film festival circuit, but gunning for distribution. And with Entertainment Weekly's recent article on Manos: Hands of Fate, we've already gotten some free publicity.
I've been hard at work on my production illustrations. I met with my DP on Saturday to flesh out things like lighting and scene comps. We're shooting our B roll and establishing shots June 25th and then we plunge right in to our first chunk of filming. I'm so excited about this project, and I have every confidence it's going to go far. I've read crappy scripts before, and this ain't one of 'em.
I got to pick out my production assistant from a batch of student interns at George Mason University. I'm ecstatic to have my very own PA, but now I have to worry about giving her enough to do, I'm so used to doing everything on my own. Luckily, I have a property list so long it could black out the sun, so I think I will get her to focus on that while I get my PD notes together.
Our own producer has a meeting with Mark Gordon, II, (doesn't that make him a Jr.?) who produced Saving Private Ryan, Swing Kids, The Day After Tomorrow, The Patriot, Broken Arrow, Speed...to name a few, this week, to pick his brain and otherwise pitch the script. If I could be a fly on the wall at that meeting...!
This is just an absolutely phenomenal opportunity to have just fall into my lap like this, being asked to production design such a brilliant and dynamic independant script. The film itself is about parallels, and even more bizarre coincidences have been the case in my own life, congruent to the psychology of the film. For instance....last year I began research down in Savannah GA for a historic-fiction novel I wanted to write. The predominant imagery in the novel was the numeral 11, which is a predominant numeral in my own life. When I was first approached to read a script entitled, "11", at initially I sighed, Great.
Would it become a conflict of interest to design the production for a film entitled "11" when my own plot was saturated with the visual elements of the cardinal number? Would I end up stealing from myself to enhance this film?I told my friend Eric that I had begun working on a film called "11" and he laughed, "Boy, they have no idea, but they just hired the expert on 11!"
After reading the script, I was assured that my novel would make it out there someday unscathed. This film is based on IMDb's worst rated film of all time and the strange things that happened to the cast and crew afterward. It's a documentary of the worst film ever made and how it was made that narrates an even deeper set of plots. It's a film within a documentary within a film.......ayeee my brain is leaking out of my ear.....
Well, suffice to say, my novel about Cold War Germany is safe in my notebooks. Long enough journal entry? I'm just one excited little girlie, on the uphill battle to making her dreams come true!
I've been hard at work on my production illustrations. I met with my DP on Saturday to flesh out things like lighting and scene comps. We're shooting our B roll and establishing shots June 25th and then we plunge right in to our first chunk of filming. I'm so excited about this project, and I have every confidence it's going to go far. I've read crappy scripts before, and this ain't one of 'em.
I got to pick out my production assistant from a batch of student interns at George Mason University. I'm ecstatic to have my very own PA, but now I have to worry about giving her enough to do, I'm so used to doing everything on my own. Luckily, I have a property list so long it could black out the sun, so I think I will get her to focus on that while I get my PD notes together.
Our own producer has a meeting with Mark Gordon, II, (doesn't that make him a Jr.?) who produced Saving Private Ryan, Swing Kids, The Day After Tomorrow, The Patriot, Broken Arrow, Speed...to name a few, this week, to pick his brain and otherwise pitch the script. If I could be a fly on the wall at that meeting...!
This is just an absolutely phenomenal opportunity to have just fall into my lap like this, being asked to production design such a brilliant and dynamic independant script. The film itself is about parallels, and even more bizarre coincidences have been the case in my own life, congruent to the psychology of the film. For instance....last year I began research down in Savannah GA for a historic-fiction novel I wanted to write. The predominant imagery in the novel was the numeral 11, which is a predominant numeral in my own life. When I was first approached to read a script entitled, "11", at initially I sighed, Great.
Would it become a conflict of interest to design the production for a film entitled "11" when my own plot was saturated with the visual elements of the cardinal number? Would I end up stealing from myself to enhance this film?I told my friend Eric that I had begun working on a film called "11" and he laughed, "Boy, they have no idea, but they just hired the expert on 11!"
After reading the script, I was assured that my novel would make it out there someday unscathed. This film is based on IMDb's worst rated film of all time and the strange things that happened to the cast and crew afterward. It's a documentary of the worst film ever made and how it was made that narrates an even deeper set of plots. It's a film within a documentary within a film.......ayeee my brain is leaking out of my ear.....
Well, suffice to say, my novel about Cold War Germany is safe in my notebooks. Long enough journal entry? I'm just one excited little girlie, on the uphill battle to making her dreams come true!
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