ROCKRIVER???

The project of Rockriver is getting shelved at the moment!

Why is this, you ask me?  I'll tell you.  Now, at roughly pi-o'clock, I realized how stuck I was in writing Rockriver's storyline at the moment.  I'd lost the drive, the ambition.  Very few people were on-board with me, and I was hardly on-board with myself anymore.  It seemed to me like too much work for a product I wouldn't be personally satisfied with.  My cast list would have made filming impossible, besides that.  Hell, just co-ordinating schedules would fuck me up pretty good.

So, I'm taking a new project for my Advanced Video Production class.  I'm adapting Cyrano de Bergerac, a play very personal to me, into a high school setting.  Dear god, I hear you cry, High school?!  Steve Martin took it to the modern day and made it about a fire chief, what on EARTH could YOU make it about?!

The answer to that?  Possibly a fencing team.  Possibly the drama department.  Possibly a LOT of things.  Which is, sadly, the beauty of high school.  There are so many things about it that can be incorporated into various functions of life.  The fact that I'm writing it based on Cyrano only makes it sweeter.  I only hope Mr. Carman will let me do something almost adapted from something else.  This also presents me with double the workload, since Rockriver could have been adapted almost into sitcom form, and this... yeah.  No.  Definitely not.

As it stands, I've only been hit by inspiration to write it, not any sort of developmental status.  I'm supposed to discuss my ideas for what I want to work on this Wednesday, but I might talk with Mr. Carman about it today.  I want his approval before I even begin to plot it out, really.  Then I'll have a week to write the beginning screenplay.

Well, okay.  That's a lie.  I want to start writing it now.  I have a bad feeling if I don't get to sleep, I'm going to have a rougher day than previously expected.

PS: So going to have "The Seer's Tower" by Sufjan Stevens in the movie.  Probably in Cyrano's death scene, or some facsimile thereof.  Because I sure as shit want to have him die.