Analog Life - Film, and Filmmaking

I went to film with Sydney and Laura today. It was fun. We filmed at the Lansdowne train station for a short film for Sydney's production class. In order to get some of the framing we wanted, we had to ignore some warnings. (We made sure to check the schedule.)



The crew and I are starting from square one for the 1830s film. It will sill focus on 4 characters and take place namely in two locations. The story is going to be a lot darker, with a lot more emotional tension, character growth and development by the end. We'll really be able to utilize the locations that we have locked down already too. Despite having a rather unsettling setback, the crew, cast, and myself are really excited about the new idea. We're writing it with modern dialogue and then will translate it to be period accurate. I'm heavily considering bringing someone in who would be able to help with the dialogue translation process.

I met up with Chris yesterday at The Coffee Bar for breakfast, and to vent about the first script idea falling apart. He was supportive of the new story, and we tossed around some plot points and character personalities.


Chris and Rebecca are two of our actors. I snapped these real quick against the wall of the studio during the read-through we had on Friday.

The read-through didn't go well, which led to us all agreeing to do a full rewrite of the script. Here are snippets from where we couldn't get through parts of the script, etc. We were all upset that things didn't go well with our original writer, but none of us are willing to give up working on the project.

Finals have started, and with Thanksgiving, a head cold and starting two new jobs I've been lacks on the blogging.

Kim finished writing her first script and we had a read-through two weeks ago. For her first attempt at screenwriting, and her first period piece, she did a great job. That being said, it still needed a lot of work. We got together and reworked the story, and weeded out plot holes and inconstancies.

The New Jersey coastline, New York, and surrounding towns around Philadelphia are still recovering from the hurricane damage, and now we're supposed to be getting another powerful storm this week. This one has the possible prediction for snow. I doubt Philly will get any, but my family might see some. They just had their power come back on this past Friday night.

I went back on Sunday, so I could spend Monday location scouting for the diner short and 1830s period piece that I'm working on. I ended up being redirected onto so many different roads that a drive that would normally take 20 minutes took me over an hour. There were still trees and wires across portions of the roadways, and lines at gas stations in areas still without power.


New Rachel from Sydney Steinberg on Vimeo.
Sydney finished the short she had to act in for her choreography assignment. I play an antisocial person who has a video blog and decides to take her blog recordings outside in an attempt to meet new people.

I've been really inspired with my web series script lately. I'm really happy with how it's developed, I hope to have the first act drafted and completed by Thanksgiving.



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