As I reported a while back, we've finished filming Domino: caught in the crisis in the sense that I'm satisfied with it. It's now coming in at 45 minutes.
This presents a problem. It's now too long to be a short, and too short to be a feature. It's also right in between the standard television lengths for a half-hour and one-hour program.
This means either I have to cut 15 minutes, or add 11. I'm currently going for the idea of adding 11.
I've mentally created scenes to add these 11 minutes. There'll be one more scene with domino players. There'll be a scene in a near-by city called "el Puerto" (actually, Puerto de Santa Maria) with the son and his finacee. And there'll be one more mini-scene with Luis, in which he and his son have a brief conversation.
On Thursday, I plan to go to el Puerto to check it out. (Originally I was going to go on Tuesday, but my small camera has to be taken to Sevilla to be repaired, so I'm putting el Puerto off until Thursday.) I need to find a location that's scenic (not hard) and that doesn't have too much wind (very hard). Wind is a real problem when it comes to recording conversations with a microphone.
Plus I have to get the scene out of my head and onto paper, since the actors will have to learn their lines.
All things considered, we plan to do this filming in early April. Plus I've already started to do some heavy duty thinking about background music.
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