Pulling together

In the second production meeting we each brought with us our individual versions of the re-written screen play. We looked at each others and decided on a final draft. I feel proud to say that everyone liked my version decided to use it as the final draft with a few minor alterations. There was a bit of a debate over whether to use a voice over or not. We discussed different styles of voice over such as diary or narrator style. In the end we agreed that it probably wouldn't be needed, that we would be able to express the story without it but that it could possibly be added in post production if we still felt it was needed.

Ideas we scrapped from the original screenplay was the Wizard Of Oz references as we felt that it had no relevance to our plot, however we did like the style of filing in black and white with certain objects in colour.

We then discussed actors of which the producer Abi said she had found actresses for the minor roles, we then decided to use a friend of mine who had expressed a lot of interest in the part to play the character Clare.

Next we addressed the issue of locations. We went through the script and compiled a list of possible locations for each scene. Some of these we knew would be difficult to get permission from and others were in our own homes. I volunteered to try to get permission to film in my local post office to help out. Then we started to compile a shot list and an outline for the schedule.

I really enjoy working with the team that I'm in because everyone is very supportive and I feel that everyone is so far showing the same level of commitment. Even though none of us particularly like the original script we have been given everyone is pulling together to make some thing that we'll all be proud of.