Welcome to my studio blog (and Week One)

Note: this was written Sunday before I had the blog set up.

Welcome to my blog for FIT3039 Studio One, where I shall be blogging my way through a semester of making an industry-quality product, talking about the fun and games and tribulations that go along with it.

Over the holidays I decided that I was going to make a film for Tropfest. It has been a dream of mine for some time, but I have never had the time or resources. The ability to make a short film as part of my university work was something I was always going to jump on.

Knowing how hard it is to come up with a story idea and script (as I am not a writer) I decided to give myself a head start by coming up with something in advance. Being completely stuck for ideas, I started listening to music for inspiration, and one of the songs that came on was '20 Good Reasons' by Thirsty Merc. This got me thinking about how you never see the other side of the story - did the guy do something (or somethings) to upset her and not realise? I came up with a story where the girl receives an email from the guy and she gives them to him, and we see the different reasons on screen.

By the time I got to the first Studio class, I had a half-finished script. I was rather nervous however going into the class, as I did not know anyone else who was doing the subject. Would anyone else want to work with me, and would anyone like my idea? Was I completely crazy?

Luckily, through the way the class is run, I met Jeremie who not only liked my idea, but wanted to work with me. We therefore spent the last part of studio coming up with the rest of the reasons and working on the script.

On the weekend, I completed the script, but I'm not really happy with it at the moment. I still like the basic premise, but something doesn't seem right about it. At the moment I think it seems a touch repetitive, not really out of the ordinary and I don't like the ending. I think at the moment it's a bit of an anti-climax in that nothing happens. It is a bit of a first draft however, hopefully I'll get to studio on Wednesday and Jeremie will have some ideas.