The latest issue of Script magazine finally plopped onto my doormat this morning, which is very exciting, as me n Dave n Unk n Craig are in it. Since Tim first mentioned the article ages ago, I thought I must have muffed up my subscription renewal, but it seems he had an early issue (or something), so all is well.
I’ve spent most of this week trying to decide which screenplay I should concentrate on. I’ve put both ‘The Jesus Box’ and ‘The Trimes’ through the Blake Snyder beat sheet (crossed referenced with some Dramatica bits and pieces) to see which held more water, and both came out really well. Both needed a lot of tweaking and developing, but ultimately I’ve plumped for the Trimes, as it’s a film that I think is more pertinent to the culture that I’m seeing around me here in the UK (as all good allegorical, H.G. Wells type sci-fi should be!) and I just feel like I’ve got to complete it somehow.
I just need to think of a better title.
Apart from that it’s all system go on the editing front. Had a meet up with Ken and Darren at the beginning of the week to discuss music and suchlike for ‘Greetings’, which went well. I’m fast approaching the hour mark on that, although this second half hour is not edited anywhere near as finely as the first 30 minutes.
‘Alligator’ went down really well at the Digifest evening last Sunday, which I’m really pleased about. I realised that the Cannes submission deadline was around now, so I mentioned it to Ken, who was up for submitting, and I’ve just managed to sneak Alligator into the competition before the deadline. Fingers crossed…