Toastmaster K - The Blog!

So I just started the process of setting up our official homepage for the movie, http://www.yellowlightsmovie.com. We have no content right now for it, but we’re working with a web designer over at Babson who is making us a site for free.

Once it is up and running, our movie updates will be going on that page instead.

To All San Diegans,

Please do your city a favor this Tuesday, and vote No on Donna!

My AHS Capstone Status Report for 11/3:

Reality Check: Progress and Plan of Work
As far as our current plan of work goes, we are a little ahead on finishing the screenplay. Our goal is to have a finished version by this Saturday (11/5), which will essentially have incorporated any feedback on the script that we have received. We are currently awaiting feedback from Mark Chang and from Connie Burge, a Hollywood writer.
We decided that for the sake of the movie, it made more sense to deliver a finished script to the actors sooner than later, so that they would have more time to acclimate to the screenplay and the lines. We’re doing a full cast read-through this weekend, and noting with them how we intend for scenes to come across and for certain lines to be delivered.
As far as the annotation goes, I am definitely a little behind. I have not spent enough time looking through my sources yet for the annotation. I plan to spend a fair amount of time over the next week and a half looking through the books and working on my annotation, so that I can have my annotation completed on time on November 17th.

Brief Assessment of Work Done
I have fallen behind on the reading simply because I have devoted most my time to reading the script. After talking with Tom about the film theory book, it doesn’t really make sense to us to try and incorporate that in because film theory is a huge subject, and the book that we chose does not lend itself very well for skimming.
We met with Gillian last week to go over Version 3.0 of the screenplay with her. On the whole, she was very impressed with the improvements that we had made on the script. She still gave us a lot of areas that could be worked on for Version 4.0, which I have already begun to incorporate into the screenplay. We expect to have the screenplay finished by this weekend, which will free up a lot more time to work on the annotation.
We also have finished our test shoots in the last two weeks. Tom has edited the material we shot together and for the most part, it has turned out looking awesome. Being able to see the actors act out the lines we have written really helps us to figure out which areas of the script still need work.

Big Picture
I am really excited about the fact that we should hopefully soon have a finished copy of the screenplay. Our plan is to have a cast read-through this weekend and then start the actual filming a week later. We are still definitely concerned about the time it will take because we have shoots scheduled every weekend from November 12th through Spring Break (with Winter Break off).
As far as the Capstone goes, I am concerned about the annotation, but if I make the effort to solidly read through the books we have purchased, I feel like I can do a good job with my annotation.