17th April: Max Rocks!

I caught up with Harvena and we started to expand on the films she wants done. We're going to start with the gross misconduct where a student gets suspended. Jeanie's idea is to have a kid go out pig hunting with his dad over the weekend and forget that the knife is still in his bag - when he takes the bag to school, a teacher finds it and takes him to the Principal who suspends the kid.

I met Max at the Shortland Street offices - South Pacific Pictures - Henderson. It was cool to catch up with him. It was good that he asked me lots of questions about the purpose, the audience and the budget. He explained that shooting 10 films was too ambitious, should aim to go for 1 film per 1 day shoot. So that means a maximum of 4 films to produce. He wrote up the first page of Jeanie's idea into a script and that was invaluable and inspiring! He wrote it so fast and it really captured what Jeanie had been talking about - later when I showed it to Jeanie she was well impressed. He sent it to me in PDF - he uses Final Draft, but I'll just use Word templates and formatting for the scripts. He also advised that maybe the shoot in the bush while pig hunting might be hard to shoot because you would need generators etc.

He also suggested I check out http://www.script-o-rama.com/ for example scripts.

I came back to the YouthLaw office with lots of energy, finally I have some direction around where I'm going with the project!