LATEST DEVELOPMENTS 2

My shoot scheduled for the 28th got cancelled so I'm going to recreate it and then to try again in a months time. I was forced to change my male actor so need to check if the costumes fits the new guy or if i need to look for more costume. The cancellation isn't 100% bad as i feel i can make it better than it might have been on the 28th.

I still want to use the outer structure of NCA to depict Joes workplace. Indoors was booked up for a fortnight after the 28th. I am looking to create the effect of a room, so I contacted Nottingham Arts Organisation and have been given some space to work with for a month. That's positive. Its up to me now to make something of the space i've been given. I managed to obtain some old wallpaper from a Retro Shop. There was some in my parents garage. I have a carpet that i could use and a few random ornaments and props. I also have an old typewriter. This is all stuff to work with.

I will search for some assistance. With it being at TAO Sam and Victoria might be interested. I'll have to see how it goes. Finding a new actor to play Joe is positive. It helps me to once again picture someone in the role rather than having a vacant hole. My next move is to check the costume and to create the space.

20.3.2010
I checked the costume and its fine. I'm gradually building a connection with Rob at TAO and hoping to work with the space. Regardless of my small friction was NCA I still want to use the outer space and hope to do so. I'd like ideally to get all the things on site.

Anna/ Joe Scenes
Performers: Annabel Bates, Benjamin Davies

Assistance: Sam Metz (Set Creation), Marge Galinski (Directing), Victoria Howard (Set Creation)
Judith Scenes (including video peice)
Performers: Steph Fitzpatrick

Assistance: Deb

THE MISDIRECTION: JOE CHARACTER DESC

Name: Joseph Dobie (known as Joe)
Age: 18 to 26
Born: In Northern Ireland

Joe is the first object of love in Anna's life when she sees him at the bus stop in her hometown in France. Joe is from a town in Northern England. He is 18 and has just finished college and has gone on vacation to spend time with his uncle in France. He has many close friends from school including Judith that he sees regularly.

Joe is in the mood to explore whilst in France. Sometimes he goes around with his uncle and also goes venturing about himself. He is keen to find acquaintances in the town. Anna's interest in him is a benefit. He is not tied up to anyone and feels free to do things at present. He is happy to see Anna whilst in France and happy to visit her as often as she likes, aware that everything will change when he goes home when he is expected to get a job by his uncle and aunt, with whom he lives with.

As he meets Anna more they talk a lot about each others situations and he begins to want to help Anna out. He is staying with his uncle who is relatively laid back with the view that it doesn't particularly concern him allowing Joe to have freedom whilst on his vacation. Joe concieves the plan of allowing Anna to return home with him and of travelling through France together after he learns that Anna has left home. Joe means well in his venture. He believes Anna will be taken in when he goes back to her aunts and believes he is only doing her good.

When they return to England the financial pressure is greater and work is organised for him almost immediately. His life becomes surrounded in work and Joe struggles to save his leisure time just for Anna as the friends that are absent from his life in France reappears. Anna is also struggling to settle due to the reality of leaving her hometown and family dawns on her. She also feels pathetic in the company of Joe's friends as she struggles to learn the language. Over time Anna and Joe realise their time spent in France has gone and their relationship starts to aimlessly drift, with no real arguements, but of acceptance that it is perhaps not working out as they hoped.

During work Joe enjoys the banter of his workplace and is not too fussed about his job or hours. He struggles to see how he can help Anna. His uncle and aunt are also thinking of selling the house and moving away. Joe and Anna can't afford to take it on - then Anna becomes pregnant and pressure further increases on Joe. It succeeds however in reviving things a little. He finds Anna a very small flat.

THE MISDIRECTION: ANNA CHARACTER DESC

Name: Anna Kaneda
Age in storyline - 16-25
Appearence Specification: Long Straight Hair, No Make up, Bitten Finger nails
Costume Appearences: Alternates between black pumps, trainers of the time, long warn out second hand dresses, Shirts, Trousers.
Born in France; Rarely left her home town
Siblings: One brother named Benoit; Mother and Father divorced.
Family: Lives with mother and visits her fathers.

Personality: Introverted, though experiences high rise in mood during periods of positivity like when she meets Joe.
School Personality: Anna has a unsuccessful unhappy school life. She struggles to cope with school environment and with figures of authority destroying her confidence. Engages in Avoidant behaviour.
Work Personality: Anna performs very well at work as a part receptionist/ runner at a car scrapyard business owned by a friend of her fathers. She communicates well with the rest of the employees, though none of them are same age as her. She gives most of her wage to her father to help him pay off gambling debts.
Sexual Personality: Anna is introverted. She does not think much about her physical appearence. She has private desire for friendship - struggles to identify with the most popular peers in her class and is often on the fringes with few friends.
Pleasures: Anna likes drawing, listening to people playing instruments on the street, going on long lonely walks.
Activities: Anna works in a garage/ car scrapyard in France and gives some of her money to her mother and some to her father. She picks her brother up from his friends after school and undertakes household chores whilst her mother works long hours.

Relationship to her brother: At first it is very strong - something she tries to repeat with her son Renaud. Benoit grows apart from her when he attends school and make friends of her own age. Depicted in the Messy Scene.
Relationship to her mother: Strained. The result of a difference of opinion over her divorce with her father. Anna's mother is also disatisfied with Anna's performance at school - being how she is a teacher - is embarrassed Anna performs so badly. Also her mother's sister has a daughter who excels at school and has gone on to university. Celia and Anna are toys in a sibling rivalry. She is also annoyed at Anna's time she spends with her father who walked out and also at the mother Anna gives him.

Anna's relationship to Joe in France: Joe is the boy who Anna sees at a bus stop after a busy day at work. She is immediately attracted to him and spends the next week trying to befriend him. He offers her escapism from the mundane unhappy life she leads. He is also a foriegner on vacation in her hometown which Anna finds exciting. They start to spend time together. To Joe Anna is interesting and like a guide in a place where he doesn't really know anyone else apart from his uncle. Spending time with Anna makes his vacation more interesting.

Anna's decision to leave home: Anna is extremely depressed at the thought of Joe's vacation ending and them not seeing each other again. She does not believe he will think of her when they are away from each other. She is growing increasingly unhappy in her life in France and feels desperate to break free from her troubles. She decides to chance on idea that sheet can form a life with Joe in France and steps out of her routine to try to make it work.

Anna's emotions during her journey after she leaves home and goes to England: The journey away from her hometown is entirely in Joe's hands. Seemingly organised between Joe's uncle with whom he is on vacation in France and Joe's aunt who he lives with in England. She feels reliant on others which does not sit easy with her and is worried about entering the unknown - a new country and new language with no money and no job and no real clue about how her new life will be. She feels very exposed, but has passed up everything and feels this is the path she's taken. She has many misgivings about leaving Benoit, about her mothers reaction, about abandoning her father and about what she will do with her time now she no longer has her job.

What happens in Anna and Joe's relationship in France?
Joe is on vacation. Anna is still working at a scrap yard and picking Renaud up from his friends after school. When he first meets Joe - he is at a bus stop and they are strangers. Anna starts to talk to him, but they part. Anna finds him again and she offers to show him around places in her area. They talk a lot about his life, her life and problems. Anna skips work a couple of days as her need to see Joe grows stronger. Joe is staying with his uncle. His uncle is a writer, photographer, journalist. Within his house is characterised by a pet rabbit, a type writer which is constantly rattling away and a converted cellar which intrigues Anna as is full of costumes and a dark room. Anna finds Joe's uncle interesting, but at same time is made to understand he doesn't exactly approve of her attempts to leave with Joe. Prior to leaving by train - partly funded by Joe's uncle - Anna and Joe spend the night at his house. They sleep in the same bed that night. They also stop on their way out of France at a hotel and sleep together again. This is Anna's first experiences of being in this situation.

Anna and Joe when they reach England: Anna acclimitization to a new country is every bit as hard as she thinks it would be. She cannot speak the language and has no friends in the area. She is very reliant on Joe to get around and doesn't feel she can do much whilst living in her aunts house. She is lost without her job and wants one again. Her day amounts to bringing lunch to Joe at his work which he undertakes as a welder again via family ties. She feels a bit of a burden. She tries to be positive, but both she and Joe are become stuck in the mundanity of the toil of work and earning enough money to survive. Their happy time in the France seems long in the past and forgotten. Anna starts to miss home, but feels she cannot return. She feels hated by her family now and is desperate for a breakthrough.

To Charlie and Annabel: This is to the point which you really need to know about. The rest is not stuff we're gonna shoot. The point we are shooting is when Anna and Joe are attempting to form their new life together in England.

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

In between laying floorboards in time for new tenants to move into a property at the end of the month and staving off Council morons, I'm preparing my upcoming shoot with Annabel and Charlie. It is going okay. Travel tickets have been booked. Locations been booked. Quite a bit of both their costumes has arrived. Some interesting props have arrived, but i ask myself

do i need to search for some more? do i need to get a white shirt?

My life is divided between watching Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett Version) and trying to initiate voluntary work at several places. The remaining time will be spent informing both Charlie and Annabel about the scene we are doing. All the little frustrating stuff is out the way like costume finding, locations etc. Its now time to pass on info about the storyline and the characters they are playing.