AS LIVE.

As live is very very stressful! there is so much involved! most stressful thing probably is getting the contributors to commit to us, its so hard to contact them and get them to agree to dates - but we are getting somewhere.
I phoned Leslie the landlady of the dog & gun last week and she said it was absolutely fine to shoot there, spoken to Ant and he is really happy to be the presenter, so thats awesome. I think one of our team-mates is away at the moment - annoying! so just waiting on him, as the other team mates said that next week was best for them to shoot VT.
We have all come to the campus today to sort everything out - this morning we devised and played our twister game which was fun, and have emailed CAFT to tell them what we need them to make for us for that game. so thats another tick off the list.
Next this afternoon we are going to finish our VT scripts and shot list and hopefully nail a date for both VTs next week. Will and I decided, even though we are producer/director on seperate VTs ( mine being the dog & gun, wills being the fox) that we would BOTH go to both shoots to ensure that the packages look pretty much exactly the same.

tomorrow we are going down to a studio in tunbride wells to see a live news programme, which will be great for me as i'll get to see what the PA actaully does.

Although easter is coming up and im looking forward to a bit of a break, we will still all be working hard otherwise things just wont be ready in time.

Wish us luck!

our beer pong practice

Ant Paynes showreel

Buzzing!

Cat and I went to the Dog & Gun last night- it could NOT have gone ANY better! When we got there and spoke to Leslie, she told us that she did have people in mind and introduced us to a man named Ant and his friends. It turns out that Ant has loads of experience, he has been a radio dj on invicta, ctr & kmfm, he has also had his own show on channel 4 and has a showreel on youtube. Also, all 3 of the guys that we hope will be in one of our teams have all worked at the maidstone studios and know lots of people there, they even worked on 'the door' with us!! so weird! they were all really up for it, all had free schedules to do it and were great, confident and quirky characters! and were really interested in what we are doing - woohoo!

Also, Ant said that we should aim higher for a host but if we couldnt get one, he would be more than happy to do it, he has done comedy and presenting before, and he also asked a girl he knows who is an actress if she would be in the team if he was hosting and she said that would be fine.

As live

Called round a load of pubbys yesterday and spoke to a few friendly landlords n ladys. They all sounded positive that they have suitable candidates and to come and meet them. sooo, this evening cat and I are going to the dog & gun quiz night, the boys are going to druids quiz night, tomorrow we are going to the walnut tree quiz night, and then thursday we are going to a comedy evening to source presenters. The others also went to The Fox yesterday whilst I made calls and they were very helpful and positive, so we are meeting them next monday.

We also practiced and filmed beer pong yesterday, it was interesting..! amendments needed!

Now that the fiction visual pitch is done, we can all put our full attention into this, and things are going to get moving!

My lead actress me thinks

Fiction Adaptation

My adaptation is a sequel to 'lamb to the slaughter', driven by the unborn child from the original story, her name is Elizabeth and at 30 years old she herself is pregnant. It is set in 1981, but only for logical reasons, I wanted to keep the original story in the 50's, and I wanted Elizabeth to be 30, so therefore its in the 80's, but I do not want it to be very 80's-esque, I want to stay away from the garish, in your face, mullet, crappy music 80's era and keep the piece very timeless. I see it it in very dreamy way that could be set in anytime period. My ideal director would be Nick Cassavettes, he has done "My sister's keeper" and "The Notebook", which both have that very dreamy, classic feel with such an underling feeling of sadness and my ideal production designer Sarah Greenwood, who has done "Atonement", "Pride & Prejudice", "Sherlock Holmes" and "The soloist" as she can capture any time period perfectly and she also captures that same dreamy feeling I want.
It is set in America, and the main locations are Mary's house, Elizabeth's house, Mary's nursing home and public libraries.


Please ignore the bit in the previous post about Elizabeth searching the web, as duh! they did not have the internet in 1981. Also when Elizabeth has a baby at the end, it maybe a boy called Patrick, I have not yet decided.