Derek Eads
So, there has been a change of course, of course. We have had to abandon the original plan of Dumpster Diving due to our star pulling out. I suppose it is just a tough lesson in the difficulties of making a documentary. Unlike a narrative film, documentaries cannot be planned with the same efficiency and tidiness. Things are inevitably going to go awry, this is real life.
We have a plan B, C, AND D. At the moment we are waiting to hear back from the Cave Clan. If this doesn't work, creating a music-video type artistic piece with shots of old maps, new maps, city scapes and tunnels...creating a hidden world sort of effect. It will be short, keeping to the minimum of 4 minutes, because there won't be a huge amount of dialogue (if any). It's a risk, as the photography will need to be superb and the choice of soundscape will need to be spot on, but it could be really interesting, a conceptual piece, a movement away from conventional documentary, and gives us a lot of artistic freedom to make many aesthetic choices. If that doesn't pan out, we may look at The Abbotsford Convent as a place to explore. Rumour has it that it is haunted. In my head, I would see the doco as made up of voice overs over night footage, eery stills of the convent during the day, faded grey/ blue tones in the images, very cold looking.
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