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Post by Eric T. Jones on Dec 30, 2008 23:53:32 GMT -5
I am close enough to a second draft where I think we can start rounding up and auditioning people (plus I *will* need extras and locations).
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Post by Eric T. Jones on Apr 23, 2009 0:32:15 GMT -5
50 pages into second draft, with the rest in outline form. I don't think there's a single scene left that I didn't already write before, so the rest is just a matter of rewriting.
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Post by Eric T. Jones on May 1, 2009 18:25:19 GMT -5
DRAFT TWO FINISHED. Casting and effects testing started.
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Post by kenny on May 15, 2009 18:49:39 GMT -5
Goody! Can't wait to start filming this, and preferably Productivity Interval 1. In HDV of course for my project.
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Post by Eric T. Jones on May 16, 2009 1:02:09 GMT -5
Yup. Still in talks with cast members (besides Kevin as Chris, I did get an actress signed on for Dana), but once I get the leads I might start filming.
I contemplated employing a strategy similar to "The International" where some wide shots would be done in HDV for needed resolution, but I've promised too many people (and myself) that this would be a 100%, MiniDV, anamorphic Optura60 picture.
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Post by Eric T. Jones on Jun 22, 2009 21:42:59 GMT -5
I am 75% sure this is going to be an anime, since I have grown tired of the scheduling problems and bullshit with live-action filmmaking. Since it's no big surprise to anyone that DMI projects tend to spend two years in post-production anyway, I don't see any harm in going for the time-consuming animation process.
Which is what I had intended to do when I started Dead Moose, Inc. back in 2002 anyway. Kevin Johnson and Jennifer Gonzalez are the only two confirmed cast members; I'll record temp voices but will periodically find more actors, and during the summer I'm going to try taping as much live-action reference footage as possible since I know I'll need it.
(since I think character animation is already going to be enough of a process and I've never done this before, for obvious reasons I am opting for rotoscope animation, a la Ralph Bakshi classics like "American Pop" and "Fire and Ice" and Richard Linklater should-be-labeled-as-classics like "A Scanner Darkly". Except the faces; I want those in my distinct drawing style)
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Post by Eric T. Jones on Aug 22, 2009 3:28:48 GMT -5
Yeah, this script is gonna be re-written. I usually write the most abbreviated versions possible, mostly based on advice from my screenwriting teacher. This is usually good advice to follow, but I tend to concoct iterations that are so abbreviated they end up being bland and flavorless.
Recently as a writing exercise I put all the characters in chatrooms. The dialogue in that is better than anything I've written, and if I went for a less-abbreviated format, "toby and jamie" could be substantially more fun to sit through.
Basically I'm saying that for the animated version, since it would not aim to break common live-action zero-budget indie conventions, would definitely not be "the cleanest R-rated independent film ever" (a phrase which Kevin employs so brilliantly it's practically his). That is, if all my actors consent to delivering the dialogue they're given. I need to write (audio record?) the new hard-R draft quickly.
You're gonna get the same movie either way. Just that the other one is gonna have a script twice as fat (dialogue is different from action; one minute of screenplay page is one minute of screentime but two pages of dialogue are needed for one full minute of movie. And the current draft is 79 pages) and have teenagers who, um, talk a little more like teenagers (read: will use the F-word 200 times because I'm writing this like how I talk... not trying to conform to decent, respectable, conversational English which I am not fluent in).
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