Film Blog 12 - Meeting

Today we confirmed our group and our choice of script with Mike. This time my group is includes just myself, Ed, Harry, Dan and David. We felt that we worked particularly well together last time and were happy to work together again. I think five will be a good number for us as well, as I think that is enough people to cover all the jobs that need to be done without anyone feeling they don’t have enough to do or don’t have a specific role.

We have chosen the script The Good Listener, we decided this for several reasons;
• We liked the idea of a deaf protagonist and thought this could be really interesting in terms of directing and casting.
• We also thought we could do some different things with sound because of the deaf protagonist. Some of our initial ideas included playing with the volume, muting, creating static sounds like when a hearing aid is adjusted, and using vibrating sounds such as you might hear from a loud speaker.
• Casting would be fairly straight forward as the entire cast are students
• Locations would be quite simple because we would only really need a house with a female bedroom and a male bedroom, and a street.

Some of the things we think may be slightly difficult, but we feel there are ways around them are;
• The house party scene. It may be difficult to stage the house party scene with so many guests, but this could be done if someone keeps charge of the actors and extras.
• The hearing aid, however we may be able to get a display model from a doctor’s surgey or Specsavers who have started selling hearing aids.
• Sign language. I have looked up British Sign Language for all of the phrases used in the script, and they are not terribly difficult but not necessarily easy to remember for someone who has never signed before. This can be helped by keeping print outs on set, with description and diagrams of the phrases used.

Last time we had trouble with casting and so this will be our first point of focus. As discuss on our meeting today, I will make audition posters and share them with the the group to check over before posting them next week. I will also book a room for casting, for Tuesday 15th February between 3pm – 5pm.