The second week of FilmLab ended with every project in an interesting place. Ashlee showed us some conceptual art pieces representing the characters in her film. There’s now a dog in it that aroused a lot of interest. Matt C, Bryan and Sophie showed us their 40 min film, which helped them address a lot of the potential problems they would have. Matt B and Julie showed us their recordings of people in public places. I was less than impressed when Matt put false subtitles over ethnic conversations. I had to participate more in our own presentation this time. Eddie’s insistence on making everything Lo-Fi meant I had to provide music by playing violin while wearing a bear costume. Bizarre, yes.
We’re now on the last stretch of FilmLab and it’s going to be a tough one. We’ll be “pitching” late in the week to two distributors, a sales agent, a producer and the director of the Adelaide Film Festival. Eddie’s at home sick today so I’m staying in touch with him via Skype. I got locked out of our office. I never lock it and never bring a key. i don’t keep anything valuable in there, but the cleaners still lock it. I had to break in by removing the grate at the bottom of the door. i can’t quite get it to go on again. Not off to a good start.
This week we’ll be moving past the conceptual and working on the story. “Planning” a story without writing it doesn’t quite go with the grain of how Eddie does things. We often write synopses and treatments, but they rarely ever serve much purpose in helping develop the story, but moreso to communicate the general idea to others. I’m curious how the tutors will help Eddie to work on this.
