SO in our consultation on Monday the 14th of September, it was discovered that we may find it difficult to film on a tram, or around a tram stop. Basically, anything tram related is going to be difficult. And that’s kind of bad news. One of our characters, Liam, is a Myki Ticket inspector. Nonetheless, I think the main thing to take away from this is that we have to be very open minded and have a way to work around these kind of issues.

Another key part of the consult, was the title sequence. Again, with the need for having filming be safe, and also regulated, we’ll need to find a way to have our concept of having all the characters introduced and somehow connected, be done in a way in which we can easily film it, without the hassle of waiting for weeks for a permit from Melbourne City Council.

But our idea for the intro of our characters is a fairly cool one, by Ashton. All the characters, who on the show don’t have anything to do with one another, are to be introduced in a title sequence and perhaps doing something that would be specific to their character. For instance, Valentina, who is one of our 3 mains, is a real estate agent, and a part of her character would be hammering in an open for inspection sign into the ground.

We also discussed ideas of how we could film such an action. Would she be filmed walking out of the car and then going to her boot and then get the sign and then hammer it in the ground? I think the key part of chatting about with with Paul, was finding a creative solution to shooting something like that. It may be quite difficult in shooting a one take of this type of action, so we were advised by Paul (whose exact words or thought I can’t remember) to pretty much keep our minds and options open as to finding the best way of shooting something.

And that pretty much sums up the consult, that we needed to keep our minds open. I think thats a pretty important thing, especially with a prototype based assignment such as this, that we need to worry about learning the process of writing, directing and editing, casting, scoring etc. instead of making the absolutely perfect and polished pilot which we would be pitching.