Week 7 & 8

At the end of Week 6 I pitched the new film to Andi, with the more fleshed out character previously known as Rick, now named Conrad. It went down very well with a rough but clear treatment and rough character bio. There were a few tips received such as taking note of a number of film nor style films, especially those that involve some kind of interrogation scene. After searching for film nor film examples on YouTube.com it was a bit difficult to find anything other than poorly done student films. I did find a few good examples of the kind of acting I'm after in films such as "Kiss Me Deadly" and "Accentuate the Negative" however these are very serious films, I'm after a comedic drama style of film, so I've also been watching some of the old "Police Squad" series and "Naked Gun" films where Frank Drebin has an inner monologue going on which parodies these older films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGx5JUp_i-A.



After taking some tips from these old films I went off to prepare for my presentation in week 7. I created a few concepts for the background characters, got some music tests, a properly formatted treatment and my first rough storyboards. I have come up with a weekly schedule of what should be done week by week up until the end of the semester also. It is now week 8 and I am currently working on timing out my first rough animatic and getting my first draft of the script formatted properly with some rough dialogue. I have also sent out for some voice auditions on voices.com and posted a request for a sound engineer.