Today we met up to edit and combine the two scripts that me and Sachin had prepared. We tried to do so because we anticipated them to be too different, or incompatible in style, but we soon easily combined a few scenes and wrote what we considered good dialogue and a good script.
We followed our previously made pattern, and shortened it as good as possible. Then Alistair, who was helping us edit, and I, timed one of maybe five heavier dialogue scenes - and found that this scene itself was already running a minute long.
As a result, we called Cian and Oscar in also, and worked through our first proper crisis. It turned out that the script idea, as it stood, was far too long for the two-three minute restriction we had been given. We had to drastically shorten our script - cutting out most of the important dialogue and interaction between the characters, and making most of the film deliver its information through montages.
In the end we managed to finish a script that we can use, with only one actually dialogue heavy scene, but we all felt frustrated and saddened in the end that most of our work had to be cut. We are left with something nothing like what we anticipated for this project, and will have to come to terms with the fact that the restrictions will not allow us to fulfil the expectations we had previously set ourselves.
Despite this demotivating event, we have at least now finished a script and can start working on the story board - as bad as we feel for the way we were forced to butcher our previous ideas.
Tomorrow, story boarding will start. We have divided the script into parts so that each of us can do some of the story board. I will be working with Cian, our camera man, to storyboard the break up scene between Caitlyn and Adrian - the only scene actually left somewhat like what we had previously planned.
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