Table Read

I have organised a table read with my actor for the coming weekend which I hope to record to see if the dialogue flows as well as seeing if the actor as any ideas on the characters or the dialogue itself.

New Location

After a new story, I opted to change the location and one location that sprung to mind was my grandmothers house. For what the story is now I feel it would be a good spot as of the space and it also has a great boiler house for the kidnapping.

Due to some unfortunate events, I may have more access to the house then I thought so the location shouldn't be a problem.

Meeting, Emails, Draft

I forwarded a rough draft of the script of what I had done it onto my actor who gave me this response:

"It's got a sense of reality to it. Both brothers came across believable and the dialogue is close to a conversation brothers would have. {You don't have a brother, so good job capturing that} 

The younger brother comes across as the steady one in the siblings. {Acting older brother in a way} To get this strongly across on screen, you might need to tweak the older brother as more of a waster/drop out type. With the younger being the one with the education & reliable head on his shoulders. This won't be a problem, I think we can capture that."

This gave me huge encouragement considering I don't have any brothers. I didn't know how the dialogue would read but I am delighted he is happy with it.

Although the script isn't finished here is what is done so far:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3NgYOPv5d2GbjdSbzY5M2xqbVE/view?usp=sharing

New Title - RAPTA

I also have a new title for my film. I was looking up certain words for kidnapping and I found that Rapta in Latin means kidnapping. I wanted something that people won't know what it is or what it means except for the same few who know some Latin words.

This is done in many shows and when you get a reference others don't it makes the meaning more personal so I wanted little clues and references in the film.

Draft 2

I started writing a few scenes and I can say that I am feeling good about what I am writing now, however I still don't know how I want to end the film, although I've a few ideas.

Second Meeting

So I had another meeting with Colin my actor. We talked more about the story and I was telling him that I was thinking about changing the idea but keeping the main core of the story. He agreed to that once he read the rewrite to so once I had the understanding I started writing.

Script

Here is a rough start to my script for my FYP.