The following Tuesday after the 2 -week "break" we had a class where we had to present our script and production document. The Production document was to be created in a document from a program called Celtx. It's a tool for planning films. I'd started using the program and adding things in the 2 weeks preceding and Jackie has filled in a few bits too and taken over the document. While Celtx offers cloud services for collaboration, it didn't seem robust enough so basically I started the document and Jackie took it over. Also, we'd probably have been the only two people to bother working on it anyway.

We didn't have a cost breakdown of everything which bothered me but that was difficult to do without group effort and it had started to become apparent that real group effort was going to be hard to achieve with anything.

We were the last group to present and Roslyn did the talking. I wasn't terribly pleased with the way she told the story. She had a cold or something and didn't have a clear head and said someone may need to take over if she couldn't talk. I was beginning to wish that would hurry up and happen. So the script was mis-represented as a bit more crap than it actually was. So that when we got the feedback, some of it might have been relevant but much of it wasn't applicable. Great.

Our storyboard had been cobbled together. I had started drawing it but it was quite difficult to plan shots. I originally wanted to plan it because it seemed to be going nowhere. But it was time consuming.

Other groups had a budget breakdown. We did however have one thing the other groups didn't, that was actors. We had auditioned people and that seemed to impress our tutor.

All in all I wasn't terribly happy, and Jackie was unimpressed for being pulled up by Joyce on sending an email to a child actor who we discovered lived in Wellington. She turned the actor down obviously. Three things: 1) She had consulted in the Facebook group, and we had discussed it. If someone isn't paying attention then... 2) Being pulled up for something when a week prior we'd all just had a big argument about Joyce sending a rude email to an actor on the groups behalf. Hello? and 3) She is the producer. She CAN make those decisions because she is the boss and because she organises all of that stuff.

So between us it's become apparent that there is a slight problem here...

Lots of little reservations I had early on but never mentioned because they seem like wild extrapolations based on nothing to any casual observer seemed to be germinating. They will no doubt become apparent in this blog too. I wonder how this film will turn out really....