I had the whole day today to work on the film.  These days I spend most of time creating shot lists in the script program Celtx and linking them to the storyboard panels we have created so far. 

Our members, pitch storyboards that visualize their vision of the scene using the script as written as a starting point.  The pitch often elaborates on the action and develops the dialog.

Then its my task to take the pitches and approve the changes to the script, link the storyboard pitches to the Celtx script file and rewrite the script so it reconciles to the action and dialog in the pitches.

Its a time consuming process, but of course a labor I very much enjoy. 

I also spent much of the afternoon on chat discussing production management with a couple of our members.

Then in the evening I attended our weekly production meeting.  We had two storyboard scenes pitched and 4 set designs discussed.  Our soundscape members were also in attendence, stopping by to check in on the progress of the visual elements.  We discussed sound Fx libraries being built. 

Finally we talked about our plans for a milestone deliverable, a storyboard video with voice over dialog acted out, music and sound Fx.  We have or will have most of the elements necessary anyway as part of our preproduciton pipeline, so we wanted to produce something immediate and tangible for a our members to have.

I returned home to hammer out some more storyboard pitch reviews, linking to Celtx and revising the script.

I’ll be back to my day job tomorrow, so I don’t expect to do much on the “X and Y,” over the next couple of days, but I will try to stay on top of the recruiting correspondence.

We are always in need of more designers and visual artists.

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Music clip from film temp tracks by David Binnig