Bounty The Movie

A journal on the making of the feature length western Bounty.

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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Development Meeting Part 2

We have gone though a number of development meetings for the rewrite of the script, argued about where the story should go, changed our ideas a number of times, played with different ideas of who the main character should be and finally hit a stream of consciousness that we are really excited about. Last night we really made new ground and the story is becoming something that has never been seen before on the screen.

By this time next week we should be reading through our completed draft and ready to start our prep before shooting. Pushing shooting back to work on the script more was definitely one of the best things we could have done. We have gone from having an okay script to having a script that will rock your socks off. The collaboration between the three writers has really payed off.

Stay tuned...

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Development Meeting

The script is undergoing some radical changes, again. With the new writers on board we have a brand new outlook on the film and are very excited with where it is going. Tonight we spent about 8 1/2 hours re-developing Act 1. We were able to focus on the key characters and really spend some time getting to know them as well as having something of interest always happening in the entire act. We should have the first set of pages completed by Thursday and will hopefully start hammering out Act 2 and successfully and interestingly meet our points that we already have established for Act 3. Right now the rush is to try and make a shooting date of August or at least begin some principle photography in August in a mad rush to make AFM this year.

We have a new sense of excitement about the script and are looking forward to getting things moving towards production.

Stay tuned...