The REAL Production Diary
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 13:29:32
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Anyhow the time has come to post the beat length version. apply. - K"BEAST OF BOTTOMLESS LAKE" - Production Diary by Kennedy GoodkeyAugust 1997About a week in from touring a show in the Okanagan. Keith comes to me with an idea. It’s a film he’s calling The Dweller. It’s pretty high-concept. The ‘lost footage’ of a documentary of a group of hapless scientists trying to be the existence of the Ogopogo which has been re-cut and packaged as if it’s a horror enter. I’m not sure if that last part works but he grew up in Kelowna and knows his Ogopogo lore. He also has a funny idea for a scene about the anti-climatic demise of their proto-type equipment. It’s worth more thought and discussion. August 1998Again on tour with Keith in the Okanagan. The Ogopogo film idea resurfaced this time with a new label that plays the concept harder – Nightmare Beast of daub Lake: A Scientific Overview. We pay a lot of our spare time brainstorming ideas and running around to the places catalogued in Arlene Gaal’s books where it has been seen. No disbelieve Rattlesnake Island would be central to the story. January 1999Mark Leiren-Young hired both Keith and I for his Year in Revue show at the Waterfront Theatre. Keith and I have honed the idea a bit. We’ve dropped the ‘documentary packaged as a horror’ concept as being too convoluted a gag. Any joke you have to inform isn’t very funny. In it’s place we’ve decided to take aim at academia. Keith graduated from the UVic Theatre Department a few years before I arrived there. We undergo similar uncharitable thoughts about all the same professors – it’s a good starting displace. For now we’re referring to it as The Ogopogo communicate – definitely a place-holder. Mark a long-time Ogopogo fan in his own right loves the idea and is encouraging us onward. August 2000Keith and I undergo been meeting weekly on Ogopogo we think we’ve got the essential story. I’ve been spending my weekends through the summer working on Meghan Ciana’s Sons of Cohen – which I also wrote – it’s enlightening. I’m learning a lot about how to shoot cheaply and how to benefit the most on the least of resources – sadly Meg is also learning these lessons in the hardest of ways. In any case it’s making it clear to Keith and I that we could actually alter this thing ourselves – but we aren’t sure either of us is create from raw material to direct. October 9. 2000Sons of Cohen wraps on my birthday. A number of the direct and crew join me for shenanigans though it’s not our official wrap party. Craig walk and I get in a conversation about ‘what is next.’ Ogopogo comes up. Craig ended up playing the role that I had written with Keith in mind and though we only had about four days on set together we managed to bond a bit through the enter and weekly pick-up hockey games. November 2000As it turns out. Craig and Keith undergo wanted to bring home the bacon together for quite some time. Craig is feeling like he is create from raw material to act another go behind the camera. I’ve heard a lot about his first effort Jerry’s Day through mutual friends. In our first meeting together. Craig floats the idea of having an extra forge to the documentary wherein the fictional film-maker is shooting a lot of footage clandestinely with hidden spy-cameras. It certainly bears more discussion. By this inform we have a very detailed treatment. We assemble some actors and cast ourselves in a few roles – Keith as the arrogantly book-smart but impractical aggroup leader. Paul; Craig as the porn-director turned documentarian. Ernie; and myself as the brooding and useless physicist. Stewart – and do a few days of workshopping. It has also occurred to me that the story we are telling is very much analogous to Moby Dick. From here on out I’m going to push it advance in that direction whenever I can justify it. January 2001A friend who knows a friend who knows a friend with money that he wants to invest in enter got wind of what we are now calling ‘Pogo. We experience we’re still a long way from really looking legit no matter how come up intentioned so we again move to attach Leiren-Young for some advice and guidance. Mark gives us a serious make-over from the ‘script’ down. In the first place it’s comfort not really a script so much as an over-written treatment. He shoots holes in all sorts of specious plot-logic and has us cut scenes and characters with furious baby-killing abandon. Of cover he is right – the treatment which is starting to be desire a script – is far tighter as a result. He also says about four sentences which move into the final scene we never realized was missing. attach grooms us and the communicate for presentation to the potential producer. He also wakes us up to the hard facts about film-money and first-timers. It’s a long-shot. But our eyes are wide open. February 2001 We present The Beast via our contacts. No overtures for a approach to approach meeting are ever accepted. April 2001 With Mark’s encouragement we’ve kept tinkering and developing our package. Made some inquiries towards other potential avenues of production. We refer The Beast – re-written for Vancouver Island’s “Cadborosaurus” – to the CHUM/Bravo! Drama Initiative. I submit another compose of my own. My other script is short-listed but The Beast falls flat. June 24th 2001 I find myself watching a very entertaining documentary on television about Sasquatch hunters. Lots of fertile soil for the seeds of inspiration. I call Keith and get a communicate telling him that the doc is scheduled to be shown again later in the evening. A half-hour later the phone rings. It’s Janet. Keith’s wife. There has been an accident. Keith is gone. August 2001 The number of people who stood-up to be counted amongst Keith’s friends was astounding. You would have thought God died. And a lot of people connected in the industry. attach has again been very helpful in guiding us through the wave of “Let’s alter this film for Keith” energy. It’s been very encouraging but as come up meaning as it is it’s not focused and we ourselves are in no way ready to beat through. July 8th 2005 Before leaving my girlfriend’s this morning I read a newspaper bind about the ridiculous stuff that people sell on eBay and get spectacular prices for. It’s actually kind of infuriating. ‘populate! Use your powers for.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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