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For Digital Cinematography we were required to come up with scripts for our 6-8 minute free form project. Well, given that I have a few ideas that can work, I type up one of them and submit it. It’s slightly short, because I left room to expand in a re-write(I submitted the 1st draft). Well yesterday we chose, and out of the three scripts, mine didn’t make it. It was fairly close, though. Eleven people in the group, one for Bean, four for Balance, and six for Differences. It’s the way things go.

I’m not upset, given that they chose Differences because it was a more difficult to execute script and that’s what they wanted. Now its just a matter of fine tuning the idea into something really good. In it’s current form it strays from a complete script since it gets jumbled and doesn’t connect with an audience. Student filmmakers would go see it just to see other talent, but it’s not where a mainstream audience could connect with it. That’s what I plan to fix. Will the rest of the group go for it, God I hope so.

So aside from writing, I’ll be directing a portion of the short. If I can make at least half of the changes I want to in the script, I feel confident that we can take it to the FilmSlam at the local independent theater, The Enzian, and maybe win. – Side note, I’m going to go see The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky and Mickey Rourke’s new film) tomorrow. It’ll be sick!

That’s all I’ve got as an update for now. I’m still fishing through ideas for Meaningless Sex. I thought I might want to take a more Noir style with it, but that just ended up heading down a path of stupid.

- Robert