IIWK Titles.

On friday we got our actor Ollie in to shoot some opening titles and a poster/front cover with him the shoot went really well once we got our head round stop motion! And today I've been editing the opening titles and the dvd cover.

IIWK The shoot

We were meant to be shooting 'If I was King' on 6/11/13 everything was in place for our three day shoot. Offices booked, pub booked, crew booked and we thought the cast was booked until two days before we had two actors pull out and with not enough time to find new actors that could learn the script the company who we were renting the office off were not happy that we pulled out at the last minute so we lost our office location as well. We are doomed....So Hennie and I went and saw Simon on Monday to explain and to see where we stood and it was decided that we would do a script read through with a whole new cast. This wasn't something I wasn't looking forward to, I was geared up for a three day shoot and in my head I just thought a script read through was a bit of a cop out, it would no way have the same impact that I thought I could of achieved with my film. So we filmed the read through on 9/11/13 with a whole new cast. And to my surprise it was amazing, it went really well and it was a very useful tool as after I went back over my script and changed some parts that I didn't feel worked to give the script more of a flow and more depth. I was overwhelmed with how well the read through went it still left a bitter taste in my mouth. If it worked this well with the cast sat down reading from the script, how much better could it be on set with cameras????
But all in all I wasn't expecting much from the read through and it helped me a great deal, I would 100% do one again and recommend them as a good writing tool.