Progress in Work.

First off, sorry for the slow updating...it's been a busy week at the water park I work at.

However, I have been getting some work done on a crucial part of the film's production: storyboarding. I took some time to myself on Wednesday and made a trip to Thomasville's local coffee shop and bought a (very tasty, mind you) iced mocha, sat down for a few hours, and worked. Some people thought I was doing homework...it was fun to pretend I was a wizard unknowingly cooking up a recipe to save the world.

When I write, like when most people read, I essentially see the finished product in my head as the words flow onto the paper. However, when I'm forced to actually put those images on paper with rather limited skills in the art of drawing stuff, things begin to get a bit more hazy.

This is something I learned in Monkeez Brew. I find it kind of awesome that while developing a movie about life not being all you want, that the process doesn't quite go as planned. I can easily see these storyboards taking the rest of the summer to finish with my fluctuating schedule and the problems with overcoming frustration in creating the images. I feel like the ultimate quality of "Our Story" is going to result from my ability to deal with that very problem: adapting when things simply do not go as I had originally intended.

Similar things happened with the script: as the actors were reading through it, I noticed they often took things in a different direction from what I had originally envisioned...usually, these were all new and interesting directions, with lots of pretty flowers on the side of the road. I filled in these new directions and suggestions for speech on my personal "master copy" (I love that term) of the screenplay.

Perhaps the storyboards will have the same function, eh?








No worries. I promise.

Script: 100% since 2/09
Cast: 100%
Crew: 100%
Camera Supplies: 25%
Storyboards: 56%
Definitive Shooting Schedule: ~7%
Movement Rehearsals: 0%
Locations/Permissions: ~75%
Green Screen Construction: 0%


Cross my heart,
-JD

P.S. You should check out these (relatively spoiler-free) scans I made of some storyboards and a marked-up page of the script.