Yay! I just completed the picture edit of Greetings. Now I have a complete Andy Coughlan version, all FCP’d up and raring for some fine cut/sound tidy up action. Thats going to be quite a major task, especially in the closing stages of the film, but it feels good to have got this far. At least now I have something I can give Daz to start working the music on.
I’ve also plotted out the first act of the new sci-fi script. It’s taken me ages to really get my head round what it was I was actually trying to write. Initial sketches were too action oriented, but if I want to make it as well (I do, and I will!) it’s got to have it’s coat cut to whatever cloth I have available, and that’s mainly blue screen cloth and not much else. Big action set pieces are just not going to happen.
I had myself stumped for a while, until I realised it had to be about the romance angle (something I’d dabbled with in the past by hadn’t quite got a handle on). So it’s a sci-fi romance/tragedy – Romeo and Juliet in space. Suddenly things are starting to click into place. Let’s see what comes out…