Alright! Ahead of schedule and under budget. Well, ahead of schedule anyway. We've plotted out the first act of the film. The treatment is below: We open with newspaper headlines, establishing Frankie Naylor, explorer; her dad, Samuel Naylor the railroad tycoon; and Frankie’s upcoming expedition to the Amazon. The last headline is not good … Continue reading Act One!
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Title!
We have settled on a title. "Off the Record" We are diving right in to a beat by beat treatment this morning. We spent our nighttime well - sleeping, and doing the tiniest amount of research (in case you too were wondering, the Prohibition lasted from 1920-1933) and we are feeling prepped for today. Happy … Continue reading Title!
Day One Recap
Day One of the experiment seems to be going well! We have genre, characters, setting and a rough plot. What I am affectionately terming the "shepherded fate technique" seems to be working really well. And the time constraint helps us to make decisions, and stick to them. I've always been a big proponent of constraint … Continue reading Day One Recap
Naming by Scattergories
Need some names? In a rush? Grab a 20-sided die and punt.
Character Sheet
So, we did use the supporting characters we drew. Plus one of our other leads, and ALL of the undrawn supporting characters. This is actually turning out to be a comedy with a rich fabric, based in period. A period comedy, if you will!
A love story!
So we have an adventurer and a writer, one man and one woman. But who's who?
A crisis!
We had a crisis. But we solved it. So fast it wouldn't even make a good plot point.
Daylight Savings
Soooo - it has come to our attention that this weekend is spring ahead, which means our 60 hour experiment is actually only 59 hours. Seems like we're going to be one hour tired-er than we planned!
Status Update
So. Things are looking pretty good. In two hours we've picked a genre, period, and characters out of a hat (cup); come up with a basic story; and written a logline. We've also eaten dinner (v important) and are still friends. Good start. Funnily enough, even though this was all basically random, we're working with … Continue reading Status Update
Logline
We did in fact get to a logline a mere two hours into our endeavor, keeping us on track for a screenplay in 57 hours. Here it is: When their plane goes down over Prohibition-era Kentucky, a sharp-tongued adventurer and her reluctant biographer are forced to set aside their animosity and work together to get … Continue reading Logline
Movie in a Weekend 