Pre production, except it’s getting too close to production.

The crew intends to film the weekend of February 19th, and 20th. This is a Sunday and Monday. 

I have been running through a mental checklist of tasks we need to do, and what I need to do as director. I have been incredibly focused on helping our cinematographer with the storyboard, and I still have a Genre Statement to work on, and a call sheet to create. 

So far, I have worked on two out of three paragraphs for our statement. Trying to justify why the crew chose romance was a bit weird. How do you professionally say, ‘I promised my crew we’d produce a romance during our last film when I was director, so now we have to film a romance?’ 

Drama was added in as a subtext, so the entire film wasn’t exactly ‘romance based.’ We did bring up the idea of a rom-com, however it was scrapped after five minutes of discussion. I wasn’t too strongly attached to the idea of a rom-com, and neither was anyone else, so the decision wasn’t something we regretted.

Tomorrow is the Friday that proposals should be due. I should be able to get everything together, so we can try to get our green light by this weekend, or the beginning of next week.