The Final Path

I want to focus on the normality of any relationship. Therefore I have drawn the conclusion that I will portray some sort of conflict and show it from both parties personal thoughts. It allows me to use shots to portray different emotions and use each narrators thoughts to build my story. Some updates from this week, I have one actor down and I need to find my second actor. His name is Tomas, and after telling him the plot of my story he said he'd be more than willing to sign up. The difficulty I have finding actors I feel is quite different to any other project. Being a member of the community I have a lot of friend willing to help me, but I've narrowed my precise subject a lot. Due to the film being in Spanish, I would prefer to have actors that have latino decent, and finding individuals willing to partake in a gay film isn't exactly a walk in the park, to an extent this signifies the importance of my piece, many people are okay with the community and can support it, but there is this certain taboo about being looked upon as part of the community. The last thing I want to do is make anyone feel uncomfortable, but at the same time I would like to explore this taboo within my process, trying to break this shyness of the unknown. Many people play multiple different roles, and many straight actors have played gay characters, but I wonder how many are not willing to do it.

Anyway I'm rambling as per usual. I'm excited, I'm ready. I invested some money into polarizing lenses for my camera to minimize the glare in certain shots, which led to me being inspired to choose some odd places to shoot from. I also have my tripod and I'm waiting on the delivery of a stabilizer. For the first time since I started this project I feel like I'm on a good path and know kind of where I'm going with this film.

Again I side tracked and lost the path of this post, the main technique I have chosen to use is to hop back and forth from one perspective to the other. To create a sort of free flowing conversation of opposing thoughts but embedding some similarities to show the strength of the relationship. I know at the end I want both dialogues to lead to three words. " Por Siempre Tuyo " which would go to show how both of them love each other very much. It's late, I'm drowning in ideas, I'll have a storyboard this week, till then, goodnight !

XOXO, Media Nerd