After much debate and many rewrites we are on the road to shooting our thesis film next week.  Writing this script has been an adventure that do not want to repeat.  I think I’ll do a comedy next time.  Not that it will be any easier, but comedies are by nature more forgiving; if it’s funny it can stay in.  Dramas on the other hand are much more stringent; does it fit with the moral theme, what is the moral theme?  Even if you know those things it getting others to understand just what you are talking about.  If the subject hits too close to home or the people critiquing the work have very defined ideas on the subject then you get lots of notes and not many of them truly helpful.  Story content is mistaken for structure and many rewrites ensue.

Don’t get me wrong.  I think the film will cause lots of conversation.  My guess is that there will be no middle ground; people will either love it of hate it.  If that is what happens then I will have achieved one of my goals in movie making: the anti-apathetic response.

If any of you who read this blog have any story ideas, leave’em in the comments.  I am looking for idea’s for a next film.

Peace.

(I ran spell check and “blog” was flagged as a misspelling….funny no?”