Stage One: Script

From the seeds of idea a great oak will one day stand - I hope.

Well the germination process has kicked in and here we are, three weeks later, with a full feature script - 80 or 100 pages depending on 'squeeze' and 'spacings'.

I'm very proud of it, and although this is but the first stage and the draft is pretty rough, to say the least, the framework of what I was aiming for is clearly there. I'm excited by the twists and turns, the sense of 'twilight zone' about the subplots interweaving with the main narrative, and the diversity of the main character, Carl. All in all its very trippy.

I'm going ot put it down now for a few days and revel in the completion of my eighth feature script before coming back to it with a creative vengeance. I know this will be a tough ask - I'm keener than mustard to get to grips with it for the next draft.

It does seem to have 'grown' slightly since the beat outline, both in terms of scale, location, and thus budget, but not so as to preclude it from the predicted production cost of £40k. And to think I was hoping to get this bad boy done on deferral for £6k at one time.

I think I must have been dreaming that one!