Forging Ahead

Supposedly this week we're supposed to have a "rough assembly" of our movie done. The professor said to at least have some edited footage, even if it was just a scene. Yeah... that's not going to happen. Last class we were again given a long list of things that we need to change, often in fairly radical ways. With so much writing still in flux, there's not much we could confidently shoot, let alone edit.

The constant tearing apart of our scripts and whatnot wouldn't be so bad ordinarily. If we really loved the project, we could just decide "they're wrong" and defiantly do things our way. Unfortunately for us, most of the time the class raises good points. Makes it a little harder to snobbishly stick to the "integrity if your art."

However, we do still think our story, at its core, is a good one, and deserves to be told. After conferring with Todd, the grad student edit-suite overseer-turned TA for our class, we have a fairly good sense of direction for the project, and from here on out, we plan to stick to our story, and not let the professor scare us into totally changing it around to make it about something it's not.

We're currently each doing storyboards of different sections of the movie. We intend to scan these into a computer, and put them in a PowerPoint presentation to show in class on Thursday. That will be our "edited" thing to show, and we'll accept feedback, but we're not changing what the story is about any more.

If all goes according to plan, "principal photography" will start this weekend.