Ball's in their Court

We spent the last couple of days ccoming up with minor, but critical beats in response to the devlepment Exec's notes. I think some of the changes are very cool, they give the characters more problems to deal with throughout the script (or at least in the outline). We worked listening to this Brazilian music by Gilles Peterson and the new Zap Mama album - "Ancestory "

Once we get final approval, I'll post the first pass at the outline and the final pass so you can see the process.

And now that we've done our part, we're submitting the second pass at the outline this morning. I expect the Exec at the Production company to sign off on this version, as we incorporated her notes fairly well (and they were good notes, a rarity in this business as we learned several years ago with another script).

Our contract closed this morning - they didn't give us the additional two weeks that we asked for to write the first draft. We wanted those two additional weeks not for writing, but for workshoping the script before turning it in. Our plan is have several friends of our read it (and give us feedback) and to bring in several of our actor friends to have a staged reading of the script. That way will see how the words flow on the page for people who read scripts for a living, and we'll hear how the dialogue sounds and what other dramatugical elements the actors will bring to the piece. Hearing actors breath life into your work is inspiriing, but it leaves you vulnerable too because you KNOW immediately if your intentions and instincts as a writer are dead-on or not.

We're going to buy an Apple PowerBook to do the actual writing, as I want to be able to go all over the city to cool, inspiriational places to hack out the script. I found that working in the same environment for too long saps the creativity, plus I get distracted by all the captiviating items, books and magazine floating around our place. I need to work on minimalizing everything in the apartment though, just so we can focus better on the job at hand.