Last night Dan posted on the Drama page that the actor situation wasn’t looking good and suggested we try and do something a bit less complicated as we can’t do our intended plan without at least two actors and also our idea involves quite a lot in terms of the planning and execution and time is not available to us to find actors that would be suitable for the roles. Due to all this he said if we were all fine with it that we do something comedic and in terms of locations etc a lot more doable for us to get filmed this week. Dan himself would also feel more comfortable being in this type of drama which half solves our actor problem.
After weighing it all up I decided we opt for doing something completely different which I am quite happy with the decision now after meeting up with Dan and Ed today and seeing Ed had written most of a rough script and some extra ideas. We then spent the next couple of hours all adding in our own thoughts and shaping it, working around Ed’s script, which went well as the ideas were flowing and we were all thinking on the same wave length. When Alex arrived we filled him in on what we had come up with so far and he was happy with the idea and hopefully Tom will be as well. After having an ending for the film pretty much finalised and a good idea of how we want to arrive at that point we decided that we would meet up again tomorrow all having thought of ideas over night of things we would like to include. We will then go through possible ideas and write out a final script using the basis we already have and any new ideas.
As director I actually feel a bit more comfortable with this idea than the previous as I can see this having much more potential of working well and everyone seems quite enthusiastic about it. Doing comedy is something I’m also a lot more passionate about and in my head I can already see how things will hopefully pan out.. Finding actors is still a bit of an issue and after talking to other people, using people from uni might not be an option as one group told me they didn’t get much response back and people they have got have dropped out as I think the drama students have a lot on at the moment. Dan said as he’s the Producer he’ll be able to act in it and I think Ed will do as well if we can’t find anyone else. The only problem with this is we only have 5 people in our group which is smaller than the others so we might have to share the roles a bit i.e. Ed is doing sound so me or Tom would have to help out with this if he ends up acting in it. It’s not always going to be ideal and I would have like to of found proper actors but with time of the essence it’s one of the few options we have and I think if we plan it in as much detail as we can I think it can work providing we all communicate with each other.
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