This is the place where we’ll be doing a movie. Hopefully together, at least a bit, or else you can just sit back and watch us make fools of ourselves every day. That too can be fun though.
This is the uncensored, unfiltered behind the scenes of making a film. It’s behind the scenes before the scenes actually. Which is weird, but fun, and a bit problematic. Normally you’d write the film before telling everyone about it. There’s a reason for that, it’s much easier telling people about something that actually exists. Here, on the other hand, we haven’t written the story yet. Still I’ll be here everyday telling you about it. It’s weird.
So let’s get started writing shall we? Let me tell you how I like to work.
The writing starts with me playing with characters, images, camera movements, dialogue and conflicts in my head trying to keep myself interested, amused or scared. In this case, as I mentioned in an earlier post, I tried to freak myself out as I went to sleep at night. Just thinking of which kind of monster, violence and ways of dying I found the scariest. About the same time characters started popping up in my head, playing around whether I liked it or not. Then I had to start making notes of all my nice ideas and see if the could fit into some kind of story. And they did! I put it together in a synopsis, the same one I posted a couple of days ago, and basically that’s where we’re at right now. Here’s my plan for the coming weeks.

1 Scenes
First off I enjoy myself just writing a bunch of scenes, fleshing out the characters, their objectives and getting inspired by them.

2 Sequence Outline
I read and analyze my scenes and see how they fit into the story as I imagined it. I put the scenes together to form sequences each with their own beginning, middle and end. I can talk more about sequences later on.

3 Step outline
I add scenes to create the flow I want. Some scenes need additional information, other scenes are so strong that you need brief pause before the next event and perhaps I add a small "aftermath"-scene.

4 First draft
Now it should only be to add dialogue to the new scenes and hey presto a first draft!

5 Second draft
I read the first draft and get utterly disappointed and immediately start writing the second draft.

I love writing.
Gotta go. I’m of to buy a new hob for our kitchen, the current one just broke down without a warning. As if a stove could tell you it’s about to die. I’m leaning towards an induction hob from Siemens. What do ya reckon? Talk to you soon, take care.
H