Goodbye my hot-tub, goodbye my friend...

Dear Bloggy-blog,

Last week, our Latex-inspired dream crashed and burned, so our latest film, Requiem for a Hot-tub, is well on its way.

Actually, we're going to be making a play I wrote a while ago into a movie-- I'm a little apprehensive cos it's sort of the play-that-won't-die as it's weird revisiting something I wrote Freshman year. It's nervous excitement though, although at our meeting yesterday at 2:30pm we spent a lot of time going over logisitics to be able to pull it off:

• We chatted about different people we know of Arab descent not only to act in the film but to also borrow their clothing or maybe house? We have a handful of folks to chat to so we're all in the process of getting in touch with them.
• We read through the play (aaaah) and decided that we maaaaayyyy have to change the judge to a dad if we can't get a courtroom and we thought of ways to make the scenes more visually interesting so that it seemed less wordy and dialogue heavy. We thought of having the characters have more visual tasks (like with the cigarette) or having a small child in the courtroom scenes to add to the tension (but that's just a maybe incase we can't get a kid).
• For the first scene, we also decided to make it less explain-y (not explanatory, just explain-y) and less theatrical and maybe just open with a scene of the policemen beating up Layla and just having her cry out in protest but not fully explain it.
• We also want to make her character a little less naive so Nour comes across less as the evil-foreigner.
• We chatted about building a portion of a set with help from some scene-shop people so that we can do some green screen with it.
• We're also re-formatting the script into CeltX proper format after this so that we can get down to really working out the overly-theatrical knicks.

Bye for now, Bloggy-blog,

Hannah