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Trivial Pursuits => People & Places => Topic started by: slink on January 11, 2005, 08:07:45 pm
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I'll stick this here, since it's kind of about me, not it.
A while back I got back in touch with an old friend. She was complaining about all the scripts she was seeing as possibles for her graduation film at uni, and since we'd worked together on projects in the past I thought I'd throw something together.
So I wrote this short subverted fairytale screenplay. After months of hell with her tutor who wanted to turn it into cliched student film that's ever been made, we managed to get a production number, and she's shooting the original script (well, draft 3, but it's the one the lecturers we respect agree is best, and the one we wanted to shoot all along).
Everyone involved seems to be really into it, which is nice, considering some of the other films that are being shot this year.
I've seen some of the test work that the camera guy has put together (experiments with filters and locations), and I am glad he's shooting it already. We've picked out locations, although there are now some problems with one of the ones we liked best (the grounds of a castle not far away). Shooting is imminent now, and I am working on the soundtrack, trying to Elfman myself up and come up with some themes. All being well it should be premiered at The Playhouse in Newcastle in a few months.
I didn't even have to go to uni and I'm having something made! That said if I'd gone to Uni I could have directed it too, but then I always promised to write something for my friend to shoot. I'm just pretty stoked.
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Congrats, man. That sounds very cool indeed.
Here's hoping the final product makes you as excited as the starting phases have...
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Hooray! May all go well. I'm excited for you.
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Awesome. I'm sure we all will look forward to seeing this when it's completed.
Congratulations.
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Cheers guys.
It's all kind of out of my hands at the moment, so it's a case of wait and see, but from the involvement I do have still (which is quite a lot to be fair) it is going well.
Soundtrack-wise it's fun, since I keep thinking 'I could make it or break it with this', and it's not easy coming up with themes, solidly, without having seen anything filmed.
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Congrats, Slink. Good luck on that.
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Whoa, that's awesome. Way to go.
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Yeah, what Batman said!
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Hey Slink, have you ever seen American Movie? If not, I totally recommend it, it's amazingly funny.
That said, with the understanding that you are not and cannot be half as pathetic as <that> guy, I'm totally in awe that you got this opportunity and I hope that eventually we'll get to see it in some form.
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Hey Slink, have you ever seen American Movie? If not, I totally recommend it, it's amazingly funny.
I think I recognise the name, but no, haven't seen it. I shall go look for a torrent for it (while I await the download of The Life Aquatic which looks cool).
Today, it seems, is going to be spent providing tech support, as windows on her computer died last night. Bah.