Filming Organisation

In order to organize the filming, we had at first to choose an actor which wasn't the most difficult part as I previously collaborated with the actor in question for one of his artistic projects (modeling for realistic drawing). So I thought that in return, he could've worked for us, as he also had the perfect profile of a perfectionist artist.

I, at first thought of making a female character to challenge the conventions and the view that people usually have regarding poets, who are often seen as male, also, the fact of a woman sinks into the madness and addiction to drugs and alcohol is an uncommon aspect in films.

Yet, having no suited female profiles for this role, or unavailable actors. I had to decide and stick with the norms and take a male character.

After choosing the character, the second part was to stick to a location, which wasn't complicated neither, since we did not want to depend on the weather nor the lighting, therefore, we chose to film inside my house.

Lastly, we had to decide on a date, which was the complexity in all the organization: Since we are working as a team and a pair (my colleague Alex filming and editing, and I directing) we had to be together in order to film; meaning that we had to decide on a date that all three of us (The actor, Alex and I) would be available to film.

As we had a four-day weekend, we thought about filming during those days, but unfortunately, Alex fell sick for the first two days and then had to go to Italy, therefore, needed to cancel the filming and postpone it.

Now, Monday the 17th of February, 3:48 PM, the filming dates are still unclear since the vacations are coming and I am also going back for two weeks in my home country.