Hi Javier. Your explaination about the director changing things sheds new light on this now. It seems to have been wrested away from your control a bit.
Drama? I don't see how a script about God and the Devil bickering over a soul can be anything other than black comedy. Unless it's Faust or something...

If the director has his plan made up already, I suppose you can't do much? it's a shame because this is a great concept and should be done as a comedy.

anyway, good luck with it and thanks for reading my short. cheers

Hello Peeps,

This little ditty of mine has now been made over a gruelling two day shoot.

Here's a photo album on my Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=228516&id=587706315

And here's a photo of Rick:



I had a lot fun watching this getting shot.  Seeing this theatre guy swear as God so many times was funny.  Although, I don't think I ever want to write a swear word again.  It got a bit much in the end.  And if I write a swear word, I don't want to be there to hear it said like a 100 times.

I had to keep an eye on the actors saying their lines on the day and boy they did like to get creative with the lines.

I let some lines stay in, changed some words here & there and tried not to stifle the flow.

God has a theatre background and anything he added or mostly changed was pretty decent so was mainly happy, the Devil on the other hand fluffed quite a few lines on the second day, twisted quite a few sentences around which didn't fly 99% of the time.

Rick barely had any lines and what he did know said perfectly.

The mic man doubled up as Luke, Jesus was not great.  I'm hoping it's better on film than watching him say his lines.

It's now going to take two-three months to piece together.  Something like 270-290 shots.  The first day had a hell of a lot of shots from an insane amount of angles.  Mostly lasting 20-30 seconds.

I totally recommend to anyone to see their script come to live.  You pick up some things that you just don't see writing on the pc.

My only regret was not speaking up enough on the first day.  Ah well, you live and learn.

JT

Jay,

Congrats on the production.
Before I saw the picture, the idea had occurred to me to dress Rick like a prisoner.
Did God and the Devil wear cheesy cop suits and ties?
Look forward to hearing more about your experience.
Thanks for the entertaining read.

Regards,
E.D.