Roger and Me

Furiously working on breaking down what needs to be in every shot (props, actors, ect.). A lot more complex than I want it to be. Maybe there is a way I can make this a bit easier....

Where I am at

Ok, so first off, hey to the readers and second thank you for reading!

Here is how my progress is going IMO: I think that I am doing fantastic and things are going very well for my little film Roger, which won't be very little once it is completed.

The steps that I have done so far:

Wrote the Script

Rewrote the script

Rewrote it again and again about 3 more times or so.

Next I went through and began breaking the script down with a pen for my shot list. Lots of scribbles all over the script. The shot list is basically what I am going to see in the camera lens while shooting the film. This is very important because without this, my cinematographer will not know what my vision of the film is.

After the scribbles on my script, I started working on my story board, which I made into a video story board. I took the scribbles on the script as the shots I wanted to use for the story board. But I knew that the story board was not going to be the actual final version for the shooting script. You can see the video story board here : youtube.com/jboutinproductions

After making the video story board I began writing the shooting script. Going through each shot for the scenes, numbering them and describing what the camera should be seeing.

Up completion of that my new task is now making a scene break down board.

A scene break down board is what I will use to show what I need in the way of props and actors and other things for each scene and shots.

After this is done I will then begin to work on my shot list board, where I will have a detailed list of the order I want to film my scenes.

This coming week is going to be a fun one. I will be starting to cast out the casting call net, as well as securing a couple of locations for the shoot. One of them will be hopefully at the RVTV studio, the other is yet to be found but I am looking!

Anyway filming will begin in late March, casting will hopefully be done in early March.

Thats all for now.

Rough Draft Story Board Video for film

Film Video Story Board

Well, I have finished my video story board, I want to show it in class next week and give everybody a chance to comment on it and let me know what they think and where I should go from there. I think I am still a long ways away from production on this film. Lots to do still in the preproduction stage.

Script Break Down

So I have broke down the script with scribbles and arrows and notes, now I just have to put that in a format that everybody can understand. There are some things that I noticed about some of the dialogue that I didnt like, so I fixed that. I can't wait to show the rough draft to everybody in the coming weeks. I think I am going to start pre-production stuff at the end of February and beginning of March. Will be sending out a cast call in mid Feb.
Till next week : )

Production Time table

As of right now, I am working on breaking down my script and tightening up several things with the dialog between the characters. I am hoping to start filming in the early to mid spring term, while I spend all of this term finishing up the script, story board and then at the end casting. I have a strong crew already for my film, I just need to do that other stuff.

Ok so the picture with the jar is the cover, the picture with the dead tree is the back cover, the picture with the two sand is the inside cover and the last one is of course the title page. I have started this book and this is just a small sample of the story.