Week 001
I'm really excited.
After all the upheavals we had about groups: everybody in pairs and nobody wanting to leave anybody behind or wanting to split anybody up, it was finally all organized.
I'm a bit worried at the minute that Peter won't be too happy with it - I'm not sure how he feels about films and I feel a little bad that I had to speak on his behalf etc, but I think this was the best for everybody. We didn't split Kim and Kalli up and we got to stick as a four, 2 pairs. I don't think you can ask for better than that.
So we're doing a film.
I'm really excited because it's something that I've been dabbling with out of school and I'm even more excited because it's actually a film that I am currently "struggling" with at the moment. I have been speaking to friend/actor about it who has some film background (having done two films for the VSA stream, but in 3rd year) and I thought she would be the best person to have on board to help me convert this story idea I have into film.
I got horribly stuck on converting from a story (which I'm well aware we HAVE TO do) to a script.
So I'm excited about the prospect of having 3 more heads struggling with me and working through the process.
I sent off my short story to the others and have gotten approval from Kalli who seems excited to start, so that's making me more excited. :)
Basically it's a short story that I wrote for a writing subject I did in 2003 which got collated along with others and published into a book.
I always thought it might make a good film and a friend that I discussed it in passing with said that it would make a very strong film.
I'm only worried about the content of it: because I wrote it when I was also concurrently studying ideas about stranger-rape (how that is what is always portrayed in the media, but more often than not, it's someone you know) and ideas about sex crimes.
The story is primarily about a rape that has taken place or is taken place but the character has completely blocked it out of her mind.
Hard to explain.
I'm loathed as it is to say what the story is about because I'd rather see how people react to it and what they believe is happening.
It seems to be that it's something that shouldn't be said and something that does make people uncomfortable.
It's not a subject that the general public really wants to know about or deal with - which on the one hand is fair enough but on the other, seems saddening. But I don't even want to say what the story is about!
But I'm excited to take this on, I'm excited to finally get this slow lumbering project off the ground and have people to breathe fresh air on it and give it a new lease of life.
I'm also very excited to be doing something I'm really quite passionate about in the last year.
I'm also glad that we won't be faking clients anymore (not that we really have one) because I didn't really enjoy that.
On a side note: I wish I could've done the dinosaurs.
After all the upheavals we had about groups: everybody in pairs and nobody wanting to leave anybody behind or wanting to split anybody up, it was finally all organized.
I'm a bit worried at the minute that Peter won't be too happy with it - I'm not sure how he feels about films and I feel a little bad that I had to speak on his behalf etc, but I think this was the best for everybody. We didn't split Kim and Kalli up and we got to stick as a four, 2 pairs. I don't think you can ask for better than that.
So we're doing a film.
I'm really excited because it's something that I've been dabbling with out of school and I'm even more excited because it's actually a film that I am currently "struggling" with at the moment. I have been speaking to friend/actor about it who has some film background (having done two films for the VSA stream, but in 3rd year) and I thought she would be the best person to have on board to help me convert this story idea I have into film.
I got horribly stuck on converting from a story (which I'm well aware we HAVE TO do) to a script.
So I'm excited about the prospect of having 3 more heads struggling with me and working through the process.
I sent off my short story to the others and have gotten approval from Kalli who seems excited to start, so that's making me more excited. :)
Basically it's a short story that I wrote for a writing subject I did in 2003 which got collated along with others and published into a book.
I always thought it might make a good film and a friend that I discussed it in passing with said that it would make a very strong film.
I'm only worried about the content of it: because I wrote it when I was also concurrently studying ideas about stranger-rape (how that is what is always portrayed in the media, but more often than not, it's someone you know) and ideas about sex crimes.
The story is primarily about a rape that has taken place or is taken place but the character has completely blocked it out of her mind.
Hard to explain.
I'm loathed as it is to say what the story is about because I'd rather see how people react to it and what they believe is happening.
It seems to be that it's something that shouldn't be said and something that does make people uncomfortable.
It's not a subject that the general public really wants to know about or deal with - which on the one hand is fair enough but on the other, seems saddening. But I don't even want to say what the story is about!
But I'm excited to take this on, I'm excited to finally get this slow lumbering project off the ground and have people to breathe fresh air on it and give it a new lease of life.
I'm also very excited to be doing something I'm really quite passionate about in the last year.
I'm also glad that we won't be faking clients anymore (not that we really have one) because I didn't really enjoy that.
On a side note: I wish I could've done the dinosaurs.
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