Try and remain objective!

It can't be denied that we are passionate about making this film, mainly because that is what we like doing but also for the challenge of doing something properly, compared to our normal think of an idea, film it, edit it and post it on YouTube. But personally this has become a project that is a lot harder than I initially thought.

After several discussions between the two of us we both agreed and felt that the script/story was missing that all important hook to grab the audiences attention from the outset. We thought we had one with the initial first scene but as this film is a physcoligical thriller we both could see that it needed something stronger in the beginning to capture the audience and get them asking lots of questions. Several ideas have been bounced around, problem is that one of us wanted something very dramatic which could potentially give away the ending, or at least have the audience thinking the ending was predictable. The other wanted something subtle, more physcoligical and leave the audience asking "what potentially has happened to Alex?" Which wasn't going to be enough to grab the audiences attention and brings us back to square one. The most annoying thing was that we both could see a need for a change and both could appreciate where the other was coming from with their own idea and we both knew there was a need for some middle ground... but what could it be?

Well it was actually an amalgamation of several little ideas we had, when we picked our way through them we found we liked a bit from one and a bit from another and the rewriting process took place. I think it was a case of not being able to see the wood for the trees, standing back and having a fresh approach helped, but so did asking others for their input. We knew there was a failing in the script, so asking others for their ideas kind of helped, so the script is still evolving, no doubt there will still be rewrites up until the day of shooting, but we will still remain objective, nothing is perfect and there is always room for improvement.

As we are a bit late this week with our blog, there will be another one following shortly, how we have made progress with our location hunt and also some exciting news regarding finding a member for our crew.

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