23 May
Okay, so I spent the day home, resting and recuperating. Am I all better? All recovered, all ready to face the day?
Fuck, no.
Am I going to take another day off? Again, fuck, no. Myself and my window rattling cough-cough-cough-gasp-wheeeeze combination will be making our presence known at the office.
Man, I'm exhausted. My sleep was interrupted on several occasions by quite stunningly painful stomach cramps, the kind that make you think "Am I in labour? Am I having a baby and I have forgotten the entire pregnancy?"
But, no point in taking another day off. Memorial Day's a-comin', and we'll be backed up as it is.
So, I spent the day surfing the wave of enthusiasm for my film. I mean, even though I'm not doing it for some months, why the hell shouldn't I take advantage of my initial energy about the project? I know myself--it will cool off soon enough in the four months between now and shooting, revving up again then.
But there is stuff to do now! Like write my shooting script, which I did yesterday. Meaning that I took Le's script and figured out shots and wrote them into the script so that I know what I'm doing before I storyboard it.
As I was doing it, I was realizing that, even though I have seen about a squillion movies in my life, and I goddamn grew up on movie sets, I couldn't remember how many times you can switch a camera back and forth in a two person scene at a table!
Is every line too much? Is every other line too little? I mean, it's a fairly static, two person, one room (well, two connected rooms) show, there's not much that you can do to open it up, so I don't want the shots to be too static as well. But neither do I want them to be a dizzying roller-coaster ride to hell!
I thought up a really good shot for the ending yesterday, simple but nice. Because, you see, onstage there was a narrator, but in the film it will be a voice over, and there has to be something going on on the screen while he's talking!
Anyway, I'm pretty happy with the pictures in my head, and I sent the script off to be vetted for shots by Diane. And I still need to get Le's permission! I should probably do that before putting much more labour into it
Isn't it nice when I get obsessed by something real rather than a movie star? Makes for a refreshing change.
Today's horoscope:
Take time to do some long-term planning about your career directions. You can initiate steps to improve your work status.
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