Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Strange case of the missing post

Two posts in two days doesn't really work if the previous post is missing, and refuses to publish. God knows why, who cares. Nothing new to add beyond the fact I'm doing draft 7 next week, scraping the idea Gemma and Stevie used to go out thereby making the relationship arc much easier. In theory. Still can't work out what happened to that other post. Anyway, here it is again.

Version six sent out to a few people to canvass more opinion, but no sooner has it gone out than I come up with an additional scene that seems to help out everything. Although I've made the central character more of a loser and so more tied to the idea of success in the band or romance, I realised I needed a scene where he falls back in love with his ex, so I wrote one of them sitting on a bench at night looking up at all the different colours in the tower block windows. It's romantic (hopefully without being sickly) and it seems to give the script a turning point it was lacking before. I really wish I'd done this before I sent it out. The main worry is that I'll get loads of feedback pointing out things that are terribly, terribly wrong with the script, and none of them will be about the fact there isn't a scene where they fall in love. Never has the phrase 'can't see the wood for the trees' been more apt than in script writing.But cheering everything up was the email I got the other day from Sam Mendes saying how much he enjoyed Home and what projects was I working on now. See, you have a bad week of wondering if your script makes any sense / will make any sense / is in any way worth the effort, and then you get a nice email from an Oscar winner and everything's OK again. It's THAT EASY.

Brilliant, I go to the trouble of reposting it and that second the original post appears. I believe the interspazz may in fact be evil.

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Two posts in two days?

A miracle. Head throbbing from too much partying last night, I open my email up to see that 'home' along with four other films, has been nominated for SAE best digital film at Raindance. So that gives us a 5-1 chance to win something. Still know we won't win, but nice to have been thought of.

Meetings in pub tonight to top up my alcohol content and take edge off hangover, and to discuss script with Kearney, if, that is, he gets off his fat arse and reads the fucking thing by then.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

The never ending road

Version six sent out to a few people to canvass more opinion, but no sooner has it gone out than I come up with an additional scene that seems to help out everything. Although I've made the central character more of a loser and so more tied to the idea of success in the band or romance, I realised I needed a scene where he falls back in love with his ex, so I wrote one of them sitting on a bench at night looking up at all the different colours in the tower block windows. It's romantic (hopefully without being sickly) and it seems to give the script a turning point it was lacking before. I really wish I'd done this before I sent it out. The main worry is that I'll get loads of feedback pointing out things that are terribly, terribly wrong with the script, and none of them will be about the fact there isn't a scene where they fall in love. Never has the phrase 'can't see the wood for the trees' been more apt than in script writing.

But cheering everything up was the email I got the other day from Sam Mendes saying how much he enjoyed Home and what projects was I working on now. See, you have a bad week of wondering if your script makes any sense / will make any sense / is in any way worth the effort, and then you get a nice email from an Oscar winner and everything's OK again. It's THAT EASY.