By Jove I Think I’ve Done It!
Well Actaully I Have!
Yesterday I finished the very first Draft on ‘No Balls, Scrum Like it Hot‘, Which is the first and on one the most vital parts of film making, I’ve put down how I see the film. It now gets past over to both Simon and Simeon for a magic touch or two, or thousands in fact. It’s a strange thing coming to the end of the story, it’s very much like finishing a good book that you can’t put down. You read and read it, then it finishes all to suddenly and you find yourself in morning for the characters that you have got to know so well. And guys this is it, there will not be a sequel to this film. that’s it for these people that have been banging around in my head for the last two and a half years. I’ve allowed them to come to the surface and engage with me, and now they are gone. A memory, that I look back at. I’ve grown these people like children, carved out there personalities and now I have to say goodbye. Of course I will get to play with them again, on the re-writes and when we film, but I cant help but just feel a small sense of loss. I think I’ll miss Izzy the most, she was the one that really took over in my head.
It goes on
I would not want you to think that, that is it, or that I’m this great writer though, I’m not. There is a necessity to getting it out of my head and in a place where the real talent get get into it. By putting the story down in it’s most basic format I give the guys a template that I’m happy with for them to really go to town on. It’s about being able to have something that I’m happy with, it’s the story and the way that I think on the page now, which saves many, many re-writes and so, so much time. It will be interesting to compare the two scripts in a couple of weeks and see just how magnificently they have changed. I must admit though, last night I felt waves of emotion and was a little bit teary.
Today
I’ll have a little tidy up and make sense of some of the bits that are not quite right. But by jove people it’s down on paper!
LATERS!
Chalkster