Pre-Production: Scripting and Treatment

Today we met up as a group to discuss our responsibilities for the Treatment and create a better frame for the script. After yesterday's location scouting we realized that with Sach and me trying to write collaboratively, a few problems could arise that we have not properly controlled.

We had very little knowledge of the outline of scenes, meaning that once me and Sach put our scenes together, we would probably have found that they do not match up at all.

So when we met up today we decided on a frame for the scenes we were going to write. We now have a considerably more detailed timeline, including links to locations and times of days and a vague summary of what happens within the scenes. Now we can go off and write the script, that can later be edited by the whole group.

We have also decided a little more about how we intend to film the shortfilm, and in what order we will present the descending into fights and arguments for the couple.

We also decided on our roles for the treatment. I will be writing about the characters, Cian is writing about locations, we decided together on a logline and are set to start working on this. We hope to finish at least a first draft of the treatment over the weekend.

Sach handed in a filled out form to the TV Society so that hopefully we will soon have a location to Audition in, and we asked the receptionists at Jennison for an audition location in case we need a backup.