Don’t panic, Gronky! It’s only 13 to 19 September 2015.

This week in Australia we had yet another mid-term switch of Prime Minister. Inspired by his innovation-loving speech, I finally bought http://quollism.com/ and started setting it up. There’s not much up at the moment though you’re of course welcome to play with the floating quoll head.

I’ve also picked up bursitis in my right shoulder which is pretty painful and slowing me down somewhat. It’s exactly a month until I arrive in Amsterdam for Blender Conference 2015 and I hope the stupid bursitis doesn’t ruin everything.

Moviewise, there has been progress of a sort. I’ve put the story comic in front of two other people and the feedback has been pretty consistent – some of it is laugh out loud funny but it doesn’t gel together.

In short, this exact version of the story goes no further. It’s rewrite time!

A key scene – The Dance – is getting axed.

The feedback I got was confusion and puzzlement over what I was trying to do. The Dance is an emotional crisis point for Gronky and leads to the turning point from despair to hope in a humourous way, so its more concise replacement scene has to do the same thing. But I can’t leave it how it is.

The introduction also needs rewriting. I’m making a list of stuff to cover off in the introduction and being as brutal as I can – I’m aiming for the barest amount of back story and character development I need while introducing the comedic causes and effects in play. There is literally a list of bullet points to cover. The quicker I can do that, the quicker I can get to the gags. 🙂

The rewrite only affects two bits of the film, the bits replacing the rewritten bits are going to be much shorter and tighter, and much of the work I’ve done so far – more than half of the story – will remain as is. As rewrites go, this is less comprehensive than the one I did in June. So there’s that. 🙂

That’s all for this week.