‘Ointment’ Film Log #1

This log is a record of everything that my group and I have done towards our final short film project, tilted ‘Ointment’.

So far, we have come up with the basic outline of our film. We know how many characters there will be as well as where we are planning on shooting the footage.

We’ve created a google drive folder where we will all be able to work on our script, which we have started to work on. Our draft so far covers the first scene which will take place in a pub and involves the main character (played by me and also called Dan Webb) and the bartender (played by Liam), who is letting Dan live in a room above the pub.

Dan will be in a slump, where he doesn’t have a job and is failing to pay his rent for Liam. Liam will ask for the rent and Dan will ask for some more time. This is where Dan watches an ad which inspires him to come up with a scheme to get rich: become a salesman. This is followed by Dan coming up with the idea to sell ointment from door to door by looking at the word ‘ointment’ in a dictionary.

At this point, this is all that has been drafted. We have dialogue written as well. However, so far everything that’s been written could change as we’ve only just started. But the main idea of the film is solid and set in stone, as we only have a few weeks before the deadline for this project.

The plan is that we are going to film at a pub in the morning before it opens next Sunday. However, it’s not decided on when exactly we’ll film the other scenes yet.