Nearing the End, Getting on Board

As of Yesterday I was on page 95 of the re-write and Page 114 of the Printed out second draft. So I’m nearing the end. It’s looking like this 3rd draft will be about 110 pages. I’ll finish it up at work tomorrow. I’ve made another drastic decision and decided to drop the surface terrorist plot of the film. I’ll leave it in the subtext so it will come through but the characters will never address it. Instead I’m actually going to add another plot point with the female Police aid steeling computers from the buildings. When the Facman guys took us for a location scout they had told us about it. So it fits in with the true story. It will also give reward to the cops who, doing there job, aren’t rewarded in the current draft. I want to make sure that all the characters actions are understandable and that there is no real villain other than miss conclusion. We’ll see how it goes.

Because the first 50 pages of the screenplay will change very little with this new addition I decided to go ahead and start to Shooting Schedule (Board). I was able to break down 44 scenes. Well really 40 but some scenes got broken into two breakdown sheets. I did this because I know that I’m going to shoot different shots in the scene at different times on different days. For example I’m going to shoot the cop cars driving at different times I’m going to shoot the close ups of the officers driving. The police will never let us have actors drive there police cars around so we’re going to have to do the two things on different days. One day we’ll get the shot of the car driving; probably have an actual police officer drive. And then do the insert of the close up of our actors in the police station parking lot on another day. Anyway I finished about 10%-15% done with the initial break down. I know this because for each scene, except for the situation above, is broken down into one break down sheet. So the screenwriting software tells me that I have 264 scenes so far in this third draft. So that means at least I’m going to have to make 280 break down sheets. Wish me luck