Beth: What concrete progress have you made on your capstone project since you submitted your proposal and timeline? Include specific examples; if possible post some examples to your blog.
Thomas: You wish I'd post them to my blog. I'm not giving my super secret script away just yet. (laughs) Anyway, as far as concrete progress, I have written a rough draft for a script, along with five revisions. I have cast the two main characters and am in the process of getting the primary location secured as well.
Beth: How many times have you been in contact with your mentor? Please list what you discussed.
Thomas: I met with IUPUI Lecturer Charles Thomas Lewis MFA Pretty much every other Monday. We mostly discussed story, plot, diegesis, etc. We also talked about the technical mechanics of some of the effects I have in mind in my short (for example, for a large portion of the film, the main character is sans glasses and therefore almost blind. Getting the audience to "buy" it without just making the whole film ugly and blurry is an interesting challenge.)
Beth: How has your timeline changed thus far? Discuss what has changed and why you changed it.
Thomas: Actually, nothing has changed in the timeline so far. Everything is playing out more or less as we planned for it to. I guess we decided not to make a strict lighting plot, which was in the plan, but other than that, we're right on the same schedule we started with.
Beth: What do you still need to complete in preparation for the beginning of your N499 course? Identify key aspects of the project that need to be taken care of before your official capstone starts.
Thomas: Mostly just location scouting, but that was always intended to partially take place in early January, so I'm almost ahead of schedule, actually.
Beth: If there have been significant changes to your project since your proposal, please discuss them.
Thomas: There haven't been any. None. Zip. Zilch. I meant what I said and said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, 100%
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