The problem is, that she’s not wearing any out doors clothing and its freezing outside. The game makers obviuosly didn’t want to animate her putting on a coat just to get her out of the scene, but the fact is that such a minor detail can ruin the immersion into the story. One way around this would be to leave enough space for the audience to fill in the blank. Make her go towards the door, then cut and just “show” us the sound of the door being shut. Since it is probable that she put on the coat, we don’t have to react to the fact that she didn’t. You don’t have to show everything. Sometimes suggesting is quite enough, and you can leave the texturing and rendering to the user.

Jag har precis läst slut boken the Comedy Bible som var riktigt underhållande och vettig. Den vänder sig främst till stand-up-komiker, men hade även ett kapitel som behandlade sit-coms. Mer om boken finns att läsa på Judy Carter’s webbsida www.comedyworkshopS.com.

Jag har blivit klar med kortfilmsmanuset som ska spelas in i höst. Regissören ska nu ta vid och göra en directors draft av det hela med mig som bisittare. Bildmanus är påbörjat och listor med alla upptänkliga saker som måste lösas har börjat iordningsställas. Manuset slutade på 33 sidor och målet just nu är att filmen ska bli 30 minuter.

I’ll say a few things about the student farse I saw. It was a cross breed between West Side Story and a western movie, with Maria, Billy – the kid, Jolly Jumper, Dolly Parton, Clint Eastwood, to mention a few of the characters. The plot was confusing at best, but it dawned on me pretty soon that this was a good thing, at least not a bad one. The show was absolutely inhibited in breaking the conventions in how a play should be performed. The actors constantly asked for dialog, the directer pointed out faults in the play while it was being performed, the set fell apart and was constantly repaired during the show. All this while the cast constantly delivered funny, or pretty funny, lines that was part of something not really resembling a good plot. This way of performing is all the more appropriate considering that Swedish student spex contains elements such as the audience demanding the actors to do scenes in other ways, and booing if a particular bad joke is told. I truly enjoyed the anarchistic nature of the show. I might ponder some more on the phenomenon further down the road.

The spex was fun, but as I said, I didn’t spend much time editing. And next week Thursday-Saturday I’ll be on The Dream Factory, organized byt the Swedish Film Institute. Need to work extra hard in the beginning of the week on my short to get it done anytime soon. There’s three plays I’ve got to edit after that. And I only got a couple of hours a day doing it. With a little bit of luck I’ll get some writing done on my recent script during the trip to Stockholm, though. The very first stages of pre-production is planned to begin in just a couple of weeks.

I’m in the middle of editing a short movie, some 10 minutes or so of interviews intertwined with shots from a stage play. I’m trying to use the facts that the sound and footage aren’t all that good all the time, and let the faults carry some of the story. This project is an attempt to tell the story through editing. If the result is any good I might publish it on YouTube, if not you’ll never here about it again.

We’re finally about to purchase After Effects. It will come to good use while we do digital effects on a film, in order for it to be truer to the original intentions. The film has already been sent to screening on Drömfabriken, without the special effects though.

On a completely different subject I stopped by the website for New York Minute Film Festival yesterday. I like the idea alot, and might do a one minute film later on just for the hell of it.

Regarding the process of making the film I welcome every new thought on the subject, and will follow the open source movement in filmmaking with interest. Hey, anything to get good stories told, right?