We’re 12 weeks out from starting the ‘STILL LIFE’ shoot and on a pre-production roll. So what’re we up to at the moment?
Well, we’ve done our location recces and signed contracts, so that’s a big weight off our minds (see above for our key location). The schedule has been locked in now and we have given ourselves time for each character that lives in the house for a period the space and opportunity for at least an hour of improv each, so we’re looking forward to seeing what madness comes out of that.
Alongside that, I’ve started storyboarding from the locked shot list (a slow but fun process to do each day, bringing the film to life), we have online zoom rehearsals over the next two weekends, travel planned, and props (from the past 30 years) are starting to amass in my now-cramped studio apartment.
Next month will be in-person rehearsals, more storyboarding (really is a slow process), we’re arranging a test shoot for us to decide if the unique shoot style we’ve discussed works for the film; then it’s costume and production design planning, and then we’ll be looking for extras (so drop us a message if you’d like to have a brief cameo end of June/early July).
All the pieces are in play now, we cannot wait to get filming!
For those unfamiliar with the synopsis to our latest feature ‘STILL LIFE’, please see below:
Chuck is cursed to live out his days like a piece of furniture on one spot, unageing, watching the episodic highs and lows of countless houseguests’ lives pass before him. Presented in two linear narratives, jumping back and forth between the day Chuck became frozen in time and the following decades, his best friend Les his sole caregiver, constantly questioning will he be released? More importantly, will their home survive when it comes under threat of demolition by a giant tech company?
An absurd, poignant, picaresque comedy spanning 30 years.