Trying to Cut Down the Story

Supposedly this coming week our group is supposed to have some early footage to show on Thursday. I don't really see how that's happening, since we're still finalizing the script, and have only started thinking about casting. If we get any footage shot between now and then, it certainly won't be much.

We have a better picture now of where we want the script to go. We definitely don't want to go quite as abstract and short as our professor was suggesting, but we know we have to cut our story down a bit to keep it from running into feature-length! So now our focus is on finding places to combine different scenes/events into one, or eliminate minor characters, and so forth. Basically, anything we can to still get the whole tale across, but do it as simply as we can.

Casting presents its own problem. For the sequence depicting the story in the protagonist's op-ed, we need a mid-thirties black woman and a young white kid. The racial aspect is actually pretty significant in the article, so we can't really deviate from that. And neither part can be convincingly played by a college student. It might pass for the adult, if the student looks older, but for the kid we definitely need a kid, which presents a problem. Hopefully that'll work out.