Week 5

Unfortunately, work has gotten in the way with scheduling and scripting won't be finished until next week. Attempting to contact directors and DoPs asking them about their inspirations. Now working intently on the pitch for week 7. Tasks for next week: Finish Script. Work on pitch.

Week 4

Watched the Butterfly effect in relation to my film, helped me to flesh out some ideas. The blackouts Evan has could relate to Ethan's premonitions. Line-by-line is complete and proof read, now starting to write up the script on Celtx. Need to start thinking about pitch and opening synopsis/summary. Had an idea to layout the pitch using backgrounds that relate to different parts of the script, for example; beach scene could be a greyed out promenade picture with some touches of red. Also had an idea to do a cinematic storyboard for the pitch, simply edited together using sound effects and music to display a scene. Tasks for next week: Finish off script.

Week 3

Progressing well with the line-by-line, hope to finish it by next week. Watched Stalker by Tarkovsky, amazing use of time-pressure. Uses natural scenes to display time and cause tension, they seem real and believable. Complete opposite of Eisenstein's theory. Definitely want to use this in my film, going to write out scenes in detail that I want to stretch out and apply this time-pressure theory to. Tasks for next week: Finish line-by-line. Start first draft of script.

Week 2

New idea is more established now. Lorne suggested using premonitions instead of time-travel. I believe it's a good idea, going to incorporate it into my script. Also asked people what they thought of my idea, mostly positive responses after changing the idea to a man that has a premonition of his wife's death. Began treatment and started thinking about the story and how to lay it out. After much thought, going to play with Tarkovsky's style and make scenes naturalistic and long. Tasks for this week: Finish treatment. Start line-by-line. Research Tarkovsky.