Working on the baseball film inspires me to never to an unscripted documentary ever again. It inspires me to think about the next fiction project. i don't know when it'll be filmed, whether before aug 31 or during christmas break, but I know it will be filmed someday. this list was partially taken from an fb chat with my art director, David, so it's not grammatically correct and wonderful. I don't care. i'm not a professional blogger.
1. much more of a crew. i'm not just going to edit/direct/film. I want michael to be DP, me as director, david as an art director, madeleine producing, lots of cowriters.
2. I want it to be more marketable to my audience on facebook. this leads me to several subpoints, which i will continue with, but first let me say this. As much as i love having just david and madeleine act, there could be about 100+ more viewers if, say, two fb-friend heavy NWC kids were the main characters. Just because I have lots of fb friends that go to NWC and will watch my videos especially if there's lots of NWC kids in it.
3. It'll have a staggered release schedule. example: week 1: vimeo. week 2: youtube. week 3: facebook. (it'll be promoted on fb the whole time but it will actually be an fb video by week 3.) you'd be surprised how many people judge whether or not they'll view it based on where it's hosted at. most people will watch if its on fb, most will watch on youtube, some will watch on vimeo.... so it'll go on fb after the other two have reasonable view counts so i know people have seen it (since you cant tell with fb videos).
4. actors will be actors. i'm not going to write parts for madeleine, for david, for zach, for jonathan. i'm going to write parts for actors unless i get inspired that way.
5. this one will be shorter than the bridge, longer than the fridge. both in length and complexity.
6.script will be incredibly organized... through CeltX (my script-writing application) I can tag props, wardrobe, actors, crew, etc.
7. Madeleine and David will Produce and Art Direct, respectively and they will be given more jobs since there is a more organized script. the two will be keeping track of what props/set dressing/wardrobe things we need and making sure they're there when we need them.
8. I want this to be quality... enough so that we could maybe enter it to a festival without it being a joke entry. like the fridge. we could enter the fridge to a festival, but that would be funny, not a serious entry. if we were to enter it, i don't want to necessarily feel "we're going to be a finalist" but i really would not want to feel "why are we spending 30 dollars on entering this crap?"
9. I want to be proud of this. I was proud of the fridge, but I want this to be something I can show to some production office i want to intern at and be like "look what I did!"
10. I don't care how long it takes.
