This week we've had a dry read through of the script. It's nice to hear the script out loud with the actor. It gives you a great sense of how the film will flow. Whilst reading through the script we were constantly changing lines to make the characters more believable and original. It's massively important that all the characters don't sound the same. It's easy for this to happen when all the characters are written by the same person. It's the writer using their own voice to write all the characters. When I'm writing I try my hardest to base the characters on either someone I know or select certain words and phrases I think that specific character would use. This way all the characters have all their own personalities and not just mine.
Wow it's been a month since I last updated the blog!
Casting is almost complete. I actually made a video blog about auditioning, but never got round to uploading it. At the end of this week I'll be in a situation where I can make some announcements.
Locations are being difficult to find. When writing the film I purposely wrote a lot of living rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms. Thinking that these would be places that would be easy to get a hold of. It turns out they aren't as easy as I thought. I've been looking at my own living room wondering whether I can make it look like four different living rooms. Hopefully it won't come down to that.
Scheduling a project of this size is so very daunting. We set the 14 day shoot and I reckon we'll have to do some filming before and after those dates. A lot of the interior scenes with local actors can be done at any point. I believe getting a few scenes shot before the 14 day shoot will take a lot of stress off everyone involved.
I've realised that a feature of this size is very much a patchwork creation.
Week three was mainly spent meeting actresses. I've met a lot of enthusiastic and passionate people. I'm going to make a vlog about auditioning and finding actors later this week. Everything is moving along swiftly and we're managing to keep the other A Tiny Adventure projects going at the same time. It's a lot of work and organising time correctly.
When we've been meeting actors we haven't just been looking for this film, but keeping other projects in mind too. Especially if we really like or get on well with a particular actor, then we definitely want to work with them in the future.
Not the biggest update, but there are things we can't talk about just yet. Plus I'm feeling a bit rotten at the moment and need to sleep it off.
James G. Wall
(Writer/Producer/Director)
Hello World.
I'm amazed how many views the website as had. It's great!
I've started getting enquiries about cast and crew. I figured it was about time to update the 'CAST/CREW NEEDED' page.
Hardly any of the crew as been selected yet, and we will be looking for people that are committed and local (or willing to travel.) This is a very low budget film, so we need a passionate and enthusiastic crew that believe in the project.
This film has a small cast, only six speaking roles. Two have already been cast, and I'm in talks with an actor about the lead role. However, there are still three main speaking roles available. Plus we will need extras. I've had to keep the information about the characters very vague. I don't want to give too much away. If you are interested I can tell you much more over email (atinyadventure@gmail.com)
Thank you very much.
James G. Wall
(Producer/Writer/Director)
