A message from sylviatoyindustries

progress on the final cut
i worked on the sound last evening and it is much improved. tonight i will be doing a little resequencing, having: 1) watched the Storyboard twice in the last 24 hours; and 2) had a 20 minute story conference with AD Chris; 3) the placement of some events is just wrong and doesn't make sense in the world of the Story


planning pickup
in chronological order (we will add to this list):
1) return to the laundromat with Diana and show Keskarel with the money belt, having had her freakout, start thinking about her next move, which in the real world would involve money. we still like the idea that her grandma insisted on giving her a stash of cash "just in case," and think it likely that Mikael, in the last scene or so, will ask her what she's been living on.
2) show 2 scenelets or so leading up to the Videographer putting a "don't even think of knocking" sign on her door.
3) reshoot the Videographer hearing the neighbors' "fight" without!!! sculpture in the frame.

Good things come to those with great collaborators: A conversation with AD Chris Arthur-Henly Robinson

Pick Up

1. Keskarel and The Videographer after escaping from being seen by K's husband: K reveals to The Videographer that she's "relieved he's alive," and so on.
2. New scene: K and or The Videographer run into another neighbor who has heard the "domestic disturbance" across the way and wants to know whether anyone else has.
3. New scene: K asks Nidal whether anyone has been looking for her - this because at the moment it's a mystery (including to me & AD Chris) why Parviz was in the neighborhood.
4. Speaking of which: why is Parviz in K's neighborhood?
5. In L.A.: in addition to the Hamlet + Ophelia scene, we need a pass-by on the street scene, a sneak up to the window scene or two, etc. 
6. keep it simple - documentary, straightforward - but next round: use shadows, reflections, transparencies (environmental phenomena that we rely on to be there, that gives our surroundings dimension, but that we tend only to notice while we're thinking about them. but i think about those phenomena all the time!)

sylvia