Rethinking The Screen

A time to reflect

It is strange for me to have this gap in production, but I am quite enjoying it. It has been allowing me time to reflect upon my process. Usually the production stage is a frantic experience hinged upon the adrenaline of shooting, but not so much this time around. 

I am meeting with Eeva next week to casually have a cup of tea and catch up. No doubt the film will come up as we have to schedule a time to shoot in May before I go onto other projects in Berlin and New York. 

The plan is to shoot the next sequences on the HPX500 as it is going to be static camera. I haven't yet discussed this is great depth with John but upon reading Mike Figgis' book "Digital Filmmaking" I really identified with the section upon Camera Motion. I similarly took great interest in his writing upon scoring music, especially in light of the Abaltat experimentation. In many ways, I thing that it is a great tool for scoring film as opposed to OVER-scoring the film with catchy melodies. I remember discussing with Miriam Allen about how Abaltat would not write my Morricone score, but then that isn't what I need. The score shouldn't be noticeable as it arguably would detract from the film itself. Alternatively, it shouldn't be filler either!!! This will be a great challenge.

This weekend I will be hiding in the countryside writing a feature script (the conventional way) for a project this summer. A busy year.