As a former film student, it’s really hard to think of a story without a proper script. For the first weeks it was really hard nailing down exactly how things would go. This happens every time I need to write a screenplay: I kind of know the core moments I want to have in there, as well as an average idea of how things should play out, but getting to the very specific dialogue lines and action sequence can take me some time even if I’m staring at the script on the computer. This “time” has a lot to do with internally processing and thinking about what I would do in those situations (we all hate scripts where the characters make really stupid/non-real decisions, right?) that would not only make sense but keep the story moving forward too.
For this one I knew I wanted something around 3-4 VFX shots (two of them being a major challenge) and knew the characters I had to work with (me and May, my girlfriend). There hasn’t been a lot of change from the first version to the one you see here, so I’m not posting the older ones.
Unless something goes terribly wrong, I’m happy with what I got now.
The path taken by the characters has a lot to do with Cloverfield’s The Statue of Liberty’s Head sequence, where they start in a rooftop, something weird happens, they go to the street and the wreckage continues. The main difference here is I don’t have a “party scenario”, nor lots of extras and major city destruction in my plot! Let’s keep it simple for a demo reel.