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.

Things are moving forward at a good pace, there is a lot of juggling at the moment and plenty of opportunities. We may be using a 4D Camera system, 3D Monitors and other such cool stuff to make this film come true. We have some interest from Gareth David-Lloyd (Torchwood), to play the male lead in the film, were still chasing a female lead.

I spent yesterday speaking to one of our Science advisors; mostly it was to make sure the technology we show in the film is plausible, even if there are some narrative freedoms being applied. We know what were putting in isn’t going into the realms of impossible.

Today has been mostly looking up rendering engines, at the moment for the free engines LuxRender is the best we have, it has the best rendering of light and that to me is one of the most important parts of doing any CGI is the accuracy of light. I’m also tasked to write a love letter to the Renderman Crew at Pixar, to try and blag the use of their render engine for the film as our budget is currently £0. I have also started to compile our crew list, while Lydia is writing a prose short story that we will use to develop the script from.