Monday, 17 August 2015

entry nine: elephant daydreams

Elephant Daydreams

Unfortunately, filming fell through with Fille, as our Jen was only free after the day the girl playing Olive moved countries. And although understandable, it’s still a real shame, as I was looking forward to capturing Olive’s story on camera. However, I have been writing another script (this one is slightly more morbid that Fille), so I plan on actioning that over the next fortnight instead. Conveniently, I have to drive up to Whangarei soon, which is perfect because that stretch of road is where I had planned on filming.

I haven’t fully decided on a title yet, but for the time being, the working title is Not A Funeral although I strongly dislike this, and would much prefer something non-sensical, completely irrelevant, and altogether misleading as to the content of the film (like Elephant Daydreams. Just because that’s my kind of jam. (My chickens are called Romulus Sunbeam and William Percival Wolfric Brian Severus Shakespeare.)



Elephant Daydreams



(Please excuse the horrible formatting; I had to put it onto a Google Doc to send to my actors, and as a result, the correct formatting was lost in the transition.)

Cast:

Cass - Daya Czepanski

Lach - Adam Ogle


Crew (to date):

Writer/Director - Grace Neely





For this film, as I was writing, I wanted something impactful, and quite different from the satirical nature of my other scripts. As I am a very sarcastic person in day-to-day life, the script still contains some black humour. But for the most part, it is a relevant and dark topic, but explored from a different angle. Rather than the POV of the sick protagonist, Elephant Daydreams explores the impact mental disorders has on the surrounding friends and family. 

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