Saturday, April 01, 2006

Make up your mind!

OK, so I decided not to go with the new computer... instead I'm going to wait until the Summer for the AMD AM2 processors. Meanwhile I'm looking to sell my current computer and get a nice laptop for the time being.

The rehearsal last week went pretty well, the actors were very good on their own and with a little bit of work we manged to get a nice balance and contrast between the two characters. I don't know how well the humor will play out on-screen, but at the rehearsal I just could not stop laughing. Funny stuff. As a comedy, Precedent is not necessarily like RvB where the humor comes from witty dialogue or plain insanity - Tony wrote this in a way where it could happen in real life. Sort of. Many of the lines were simply too long. One character has almost an entire page of non stop dialogue - although that might be great for a novel or play, I don't think it will work at all on the screen. I get depressed thinking how I'd set that up visually.

Unfortunately we had to cut some of the dialogue, but in a way where the major point is still there. After going through the new version several times I think we managed to get a nice pacing for the dialogue. More meat, less filler.

I haven't had the chance to work on the set design for a long time (machinima.com is eating away all my time), and as you probably expected this is going to take a little more than two months to complete. Still, we have good members on board our team and we're definitely going to finish it sooner than later.

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

That's cool about the lines. I myself felt like i was going around in circles when writing that massive clump of crap....

Keep me updated!!
-Tony

April 01, 2006 7:02 PM  
david said...

im liking the new layout of riot-films.com!

April 10, 2006 6:35 PM  

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