Jan 21 2009
Charlie and a script update
I edited up this old project I filmed on my brother, Charles, one day when I was bored. He’s a pretty good poet. He writes a lot of song lyrics. He doesn’t make any actual songs, but he writes plenty of lyrics. He has several notebooks full of them. Anyway, you lovely people on the web might like to check it out. the film
As far as my script, (the one we are calling River Untitled for now) , I’ve not been making much progress. Here’s the previous post I did on it, which has a summary of the script, in case you have no idea what I’m talking about.
I did do some location scouting, in part to try to jog my mind and the scouting helped a little bit. There is a park in Southaven that will work for a lot of the scenes. I took some pictures.
I’m thinking of using this pond as where River first talks to the demon. It was kind of creepy looking but that might have been a mix of the trash in it and the waning light.
Below are shots of the playground she stops at and the creek she lives in for awhile.
I managed to find a cool name for the demon. Aeshma. I found the name perusing the web. According to this webiste “In zoroastrianism Aeshma is the demon of rage and fury opposed to Asha Vahishta, the divinity of truth.” Pretty cool all things considered. The name fits the story perfectly, both because the demon is attempting to goad River into murdering her step-father and because its trying to convince her that’s the only way to take control, thus speaking to her a concept that is an affront to truth. There are other ways to deal with oppression besides shooting the oppressor.
One last thing, so you know, I decided to keep the character Matteo. If only because River needs someone to interact with besides a toy bear.
