February 2, 2005
James and I had planned on finishing our script yesterday, but we ended up writing additional material to fill out the narrative instead. We wrote the scene in question with the intention of putting it just before the beginning of the last act; but once we finished it, it was almost immediately apparent that it would work better earlier on in the film. We changed its placement, and it did work better, strengthening both the central themes of the script and the overall narrative flow. It's interesting how this script has developed; so much deletion, so much rearrangment - and with every revision the story grows both simpler and stronger - and truer to the spirit of the source material (oh yes, it is an adaptation - in an abstract and yet very direct sense).
The Berlinale Talent Campus finally released their full curriculum. The good news is that it is full of an amazing array of programs and lectures; the bad news is that a lot of them allow very limited attendance, which is first-come, first-serve for the talent. There's one in particular that I couldn't bear not to be a part of; something that I anticipate being so amazing that it'll probably bring me to tears. I won't say what it is, so that I don't jinx myself - but if I make it onboard the bus to that event, rest assured I'll be writing about it later. I believe the entire program is available on their website, though, so you can try to guess which one I'm talking about.
In "preparation for the trip," I finally bought an iPod. Between the half of my record collection I've loaded up so far and the selections I stole from James, I've nearly filled it's twenty gigabytes (9 days of straight music, 3386 songs). It doesn't make sense how amazing these things are. I was going to write something about how iPods are more than mere technological marvels - how they are actual tangible extensions of their owners' personalities - an id in the form of an organically aesthete device - but Matt has coincidentally beat me to much of that punch.
And now back to this accursed Deadroom trailer, which has not yet made it past the minute mark - I keep starting over from scratch, trying out approaches which seem like they'll be better but never actually are. The solution is surely right in front of me - one of those forest-for-the-trees situations.
Oh, and we got into another festival.. This is the first one we've been invited to (or invited to submit to, at least). Incidentally, we'll be playing alongside Dear Pillow, which I'm looking forward to seeing again, and which will (hopefully) by that point have won an Independent Spirit Award.
Posted by David Lowery at February 2, 2005 5:12 PM
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The Stanley Kubrick exhibition (the session with Christiane Kubrick as tour guide)? "Painting With the Camera: Christopher Doyle"?
Posted by: Matt at February 2, 2005 8:56 PM
I'm sure you understand that, because of aforementioned fear of jinxing, I can't tell you you're very much on the right track with your guesses.
Posted by: Ghostboy at February 3, 2005 6:25 PM