Monday, January 05, 2009

A Clockwork Baptism: First Scouting

Today, we scouted the Marin Headlands and China Camp for locations to shoot A Clockwork Baptism. I aim for this to be a more professional production, devoid of the freeform style that has defined a lot of our work - in doing so, I hope we reach a higher level of storytelling quality. We will go into this with a screenplay, schedule, and full casting, and it will be glorious.

Several key scenes will take place in an old battery, where the "resistance" faction in the narrative can escape from prying eyes to organize. Although I plan to look into more obscure locations in the Headlands and the San Francisco Presidio, we have some solid location candidates after today.

I'm also left with some photographic material for reference as I write the screenplay - if the film is tailored to its setting from the start, then all the better.