Just come back from a meeting with Hugh Fowler our composer. It was interesting and enlightening, to get a bit more in depth info on how music is produced, and the whole workflow process. It looks like we will be using human voice predominantly through the film with a slant more on the choral music style, but using manipulation to turn the voices of our singers in to instruments in a range of styles to suite the mood and feel of the film. So we will probably be creating Choral Techno.

We’re looking at 5 key themes, for the character and film, these will be used throughout. Also we are looking at one sad song, in a Johnny Cash style blues for the end. The key is to get all of the music to work together and keep a consistency throughout. One of the songs will be written and recorded over the summer and will be put on iTunes or other such sites to bring in some budget, and recognition in the early stages. Keep coming back and hopefully before September we will have a song you can buy as a means to helping us fund the film.

We are going for a 5.1 mix, at Dolby TrueHD standards, so this means a lot of effort needs to be put into gathering high quality sound from every source. What we are aiming for is doable, challenging but doable.

I’m feeling confident that the music for this film will be top notch. We may also release it as an EP at the end with a percentage of the money going to charity.

Were currently have a first draft of the screen story which is going to be looked over by Ian Watson (Screenstory: A.I Artificial Intelligence) from this were going to develop a 20-25 page script for a 20 min short film. As said before were aiming high, we have a number of science advisors onboard, access to a 4D camera which is still in the early stages of development. Were aiming for something along the lines of Neil Blomkamp’s first short “Alive in Jo’berg” and Ruairi Robinson’s “Silent City.” Our aim it’s to create something that looks like it cost considerably more than it did, so quality and ambition are our key factors for this film.

It’s been a quiet few days, Lydia has almost finished the first draft of the story, so we should be editing that Monday. I have contacted Jabra, to try and get some sample display units for props, I hope they say yes. Still need to write to Pixar, other than that most things are being kept on top of. We have a meeting next week with the Composer, the 4D Camera people and the production group.

Most of yesterday was hammering out the plot elements and key events in the time lines of the story. There are quite a few in jokes for the geek community, but nothing to pervasive so the mortal folk would be bothered by them.

Mr. Abershaw’s Happening Day, our previous short film will be screened at Fantasy Con UK in September. http://www.fantasycon.org.uk/ This is the first public screening to be announced, but probably not the first screening, were waiting to hear back from a few other festivals.

This is good news for all involved, as it’s going to get us some recognition in the fantasy and science fiction scene’s in the UK. It might help us drum up some more funding for Casimir Effect. Fingers Crossed.

Frank one of our science advisors had just got back to us has put us in touch with an expert in Quantum Physics from Cambridge. So we can start looking at the physical possibilities of time travel and at least get the technical angle of this film as close as we can.

The 4D Camera guys like the idea of working with us and are looking in to the practicalities of using the camera for some of the sequences in our film.