Woman in White update.

So, Monday i tried to get Draft 4 completed but due to irritations and annoyances i couldn’t get my brain in gear to even think about it, i opened the Final Draft file and just stared at the screen. My headache grow and my frustration along with it, i think that as i was already frustrated before hand didn’t help as that also grow as i found i couldn’t get any writing done, and believe me, this is a project i want done.

Yesterday i was out all day so got zero writing done.

Today i was woken up nice and really early, not something i enjoy doing, so i could listen out for a fireplace to get delivered. I sat around until 14:30 when it came, knowing now that i can get on with my own life i opened up iTunes and plugged in my headphones turned up the volume to its highest level and started playing a new playlist of metal/rock music. 5 Albums from ‘Disturbed’. I do this so i can drown out all other noise, so i can only hear what i want to hear, in this case very loud Metal/Rock music.

I opened an already edited Draft 4 of ‘Woman in White’ and went straight to the point i had to re-write. I removed an entire scene, it needed to be changed. So i sat down and just started to write. I love it when that happens, it somehow feels more natural.

So today i completed draft 4 of ‘Woman in White’ using feedback i received from +Dan Dollar and +Sarah Skuseth (the ‘+’ refers to Google Plus) both of whom read draft 3 for me, a request i posted on Google+. Both gave great feedback, some of which i used, and some i didn’t. But thats how feedback works, you have to be able to see what will help and what either won’t help or is’n needed for your vision.

Another great thing about re-writing is the time factor. If we just made films based on a first or even a second draft then you’d sit watching your film wishing you could change a few things or a lot of things. The time you spend in re-writes means you spend far more time thinking about the project, making changes as you go. So hopefully if the script is made into a film, when you sit watching it, it’s closer to what you envisioned, and you don’t feel the need to want to change that much or anything.

But, no matter how many re-writes you go through you will always want to change something once you see a final film cut. Thats just the way the creative mind works i guess. We’re never really happy with our work, it could always use a little more work, a fine tuning, a tweak here and there. You just have to know when to say “It’s done” otherwise you’ll be re-writing it forever.

Woman in White: update.

So Tumi the possible Producer gave me lots of feedback, some of which i ignored, because answering those would have given away what/who the woman in white is, something i don't want to do. For me the Woman in White's identity is up to the viewer. There is a specific reason for her being there, but i want to see what other people make of it, if anything.

Of course if the film is made then then a short time after release i'll explain what/who she is and why she is there. But not until after. I'll even explain how i had the idea because like Tumi said in his feedback;

"Overall, this is a very intriguing concept and appears to me to draw from the ring, others with Nicole Kidman albeit from a different perspective and even, dare I say, Blair Witch in some respect but mostly - Paranormal Activity."

I'm sure that others will draw the same conclusions, which won't be to much of a surprise to be honest, even i thought about it. But there is something that gave me the idea, dramatised as it is, but this idea did come from some where, the films Tumi mentions may have influenced where the idea came from, but there are not where the idea came from. Which shall be explained later.

And so after reading through Tumi's feedback, which was extensive, and a chat with a friend, who said "producers can and often do mess up screenplays with their ideas" I guess the over all consensus is that producers do not work from a creative stand point, but instead need things explained to them, if the producer doesn't understand whats going on then how would anyone else or how could he then work on the project if he doesn't get it.

I took some ideas, ones i thought were good suggestion, in fact, everything he said about the two main characters i was able to fix by adding only a few lines of action and not impacting on the overall script, i few minor detail changes later and i'm at the end of a third draft, which i'll be putting out there tonight.

Anne and Scott will get a copy, but i want at least 4 or 5 others to read it and give feedback. What i'm looking for is more perspectives on what you think might be wrong with it, or things you didn't get or full understand.

Using your feedback, or not, i'll get what ever comes of it out to Tumi, i mean it could be Draft 3 or Draft 4, depending on what i get back, and when. I'll also be uploading the script to Stage32 and ask for a producer. Tumi of course gets first refusal.

Well, thats where i am right now.