Production Manager and Things to do

Simon suggested I needed someone on my shoot to help out and make sure things run smoothly and everyone is happy and my immediate thought was to ask Chloe. She has been so great with casting and I feel as she has had most contact with them, they are going to feel like shes there go to girl and she seems like shes good at organizing people and meetings etc. I appreciate she has her own project so I told her to say no if she didnt want to but she agreed as long as the shoot days dont clash with hers.
So other things to nail is - schedule. If the cast we meet tomorrow are great then I am hoping to bash out a shoot schedule with them, I am hoping for the october half term as then the children arent at school.

I also need to go and take photographs of my locations (house and track) to build up a production design board, I think if I get time I may do this tomorrow in between the morning with Simon and the cast meeting at 5.30pm.

In the cast meeting tomorrow I am aiming to get the cast to improv together to see if they have chemistry and perhaps a few readings from the script.

Scripting

SCRIPTING IS HARRRRRRD.

I had been having major issues with a part of my story, I really don't want my story to be a cliche, but I needed to answer some questions. And I THINK i've come up with something that I'm really happy with finally :)  This is like draft 4 or 5 but now I THINK its just tweaking rather than story editing :)

Direction/Vision

I want the piece to be very honest, simple and people/relationship led. Much like BBC's True Love and Independent film Fishtank. I envision lots of shots in which there is no dialogue, just a quite character, emotion on their faces not being spoken. 

Director research

Marketing

Also as I marketing tool that most people do these days, I could set up and facebook at twitter account and post updates of progress, e.g scripting, planning, shooting and editing and release dates including photos.

A LA - http://www.facebook.com/filmconsequence

Film Fest's

As Simon suggested I have been thinking about where my film could be shown. There is a small independent and local studios that are having a film festival in november and mid way through it they have a day for filmmakers to submit their own short films. It is called stepping stone studios. And although I am aware that the showing is going to be earlier than my finished piece, this is just an example of the sort of place I see submitting my film - small, independent and humble. And I could always submit in the next opening.