Jobs

Remember I talked about Barry and I getting together and getting involved in the moving image again? Well, we had that conversation. Initially we were going to remake an old favourite from our college days called, The Birth.

We dropped that idea. We played about with concepts for ages, but we couldn't decide; Do we simply remake it, using the same script, do we take the core idea and totally rewrite it? If so, why not make a whole new movie? It didn't matter in the end that we had nothing to show for our evening, because, out of our intense too-ing and fro-ing we realised, we still had plenty of ideas and we could coax them out when needed. We decided to abandon The Birth for now, and come back to it later. In the meantime Barry would get thinking up some new scenarios and I would concentrate on adapting an old short story of his called simply Jobs.

I have always liked this story, and had often played with the idea of making a film of it. It is such a great idea and in so many ways, it screams "Bob and Barry". So I dug out the scrappy original late last night and got to work.

This afternoon, at about 6.30pm, I finished the first draft. I gave one copy to Hel and emailed Barry with it. Already I can see things that may need to be changed, but I feel well under way now, and I am very enthused with the way it has turned out. I've no doubt it will change 100% before much longer, but the core is there. I'm looking forward to Barry's notes.

I started to look into Film Council funding today too, so who knows what we may end up with...