As with any project, recently it’s felt a bit like a deflated balloon. After losing hope, losing steam and a fair bit of enthusiasm for this performance, I found it all renewed today whilst talking to one of the drama tutors, Andy Jordan. He not only gave us the kind of story we’d been hoping for all along; one that really sounded enchanting and interesting and spurred us to reevaluate Lincoln (which I feel was one of the points of this performance, not only to get across to the audience but also for us group members to achieve along the way), but he managed to give us the exact imagery that we could translate to film. I do have slight fears that if it takes up a lot of the performance that people will think that;s because we’ve been lazy with collecting more stories but it’s not true, it’s more of a star piece, the right amount of depth that I wanted to convey in our pieces.
Speaking of the film, it took a (very) long time but we finally got to grips with the editing software today. After hearing from a lot of people that iMovie on a Mac computer was the best software to create a semi-professional looking film, we tried it out. Macs are difficult to get used to. But I’m glad we set aside a lot today with the idea of nothing more to achieve than just to get our heads round iMovie, and with a lot of help from my good friend Google it worked. I know this isn’t an effort that’s going to show in the final film which is a shame but I’m glad I’ve got the skills now, especially as doing Drama I’m fairly certain that this won’t be the last film I have to make!