Ken gave the all clear this evening to lock the picture for Greetings. I’m quite chuffed we’ve got this far. Now it’s down to Darren to work his magic on the music, which I know he’s been doing, but now he has no excuses.
I’ve been busy tinkering with sound effects. Lots of fun to be had there. I’ve also been reading the manual for Color and filling in all the bits I didn’t know about digital film (like what 4:2:2 actually means), which is cool.
Meanwhile the sci-fi screenplay lumbers slowly onwards. I’d got a bit of a mental block about the last scene of the first act and spent days putting off writing it. I just couldn’t work out why. Then I realised the scene before was completely wrong. It gave too much away and stole too much thunder from the climactic scene I was struggling to write.
Once I’d got that sussed I was away again and it’s tripping along quite nicely. My target of three pages a day seems to be holding, but I know it won’t last, too many things going on. Still, I’m gunning for the end of July for a complete first draft. That allows me a few days slippage if I need it.
What I wouldn’t do to get rid of the day job…