February 2010
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Omission - Draft Shot List
The organisers of the Metro Screen first break program emphasised that film is a visual medium and any materials in the submission that showed the visual direction of the film would be welcome. At first I tried to do storyboards for the film, but a very effective combination of having no drawing ability, and the lack of time made me try a different approach: a shot list.
What I found out was...
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Omission - Supporting Materials
My dreams of making two submissions to MetroScreen’s first break program was quickly shown to be the utter folly that it was. Here is some of the support materials for my submission. Read the script for Omission here. If you are especially masochistic, read the draft shot list here.
Short Synopsis
Omission is a meditative study of a hard working immigrant family’s internal violence and...
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My Second Script - Omission
I couldn’t hear Wesley on the phone. I can never hear him on the phone. But, as usual, he had something for me to do, to do RIGHT NOW! I had to get over to Surry Hills to a place called Metro Screen for some talk or other. I looked at my half finished jigsaw and my reversed underwear. It would be the first time I’d left the house in four days. I leaped at the opportunity.
Dripping sweat from my...