The Making of a Short Film - Part 5

After another meeting with Jimmy and pinning down location possibilities and actors, we took a little time off from work to scout locations. If you haven't already, check out Jim's site for pictures of our scouting trip. The trip was extremely beneficial. It gave me a better idea of how the movie will look and after reviewing test footage (and Jim's pics) too much light may be a problem so we'll have to deal with that. Also, after filming Jimmy in some of the same shots I had planned on using in the film, I decided to make changes there as well. Just one quick trip has solved two potential problems that I wouldn't have known about until the day of shooting or even Later.

After our trip, I toyed with editing our test footage together to see how things would flow and what sound would need to be added. While doing this I received a revelation that our script needed to be changed. I had intentionally made the story very short so that on my first flick wouldn't be too complicated. But, in doing so I had sacrificed essential story elements that had to be added to make the audience care about the character. So Jimmy, being a much better writer than I am, will be handling the revision to the script.

Finally, shooting will hopefully begin this week if Jimmy, myself, and Oliver can coordinate our schedules. I'm very excited and looking forward to actually getting this done. Thank you to everybody who has shown their support and stopped by to read.