"cessatio."

“cessation - A ceasing; an end”

The short film’s finally been given a firm name. One of its’ working titles was “iniuria.”, but I felt like it didn’t roll off the tongue as well as “cessatio” does. I took the ‘n’ off of ‘cessation’ to add a bit more of a ring to it, as well as that technique known before.

Pre-production has began after a pitching process. I’ve decided to adjust the messages and values behind the film to how an audience may individually percept the protagonist in the film - so with that I’m throwing out positives/negatives in order to sway’s the audience’s view on him, a lot of emotion from “sympathy” to “disgust” to “sadism”. By the end of the film, hopefully there won’t be a clear line between those three opinions.

It’s going to be a tricky direction to maintain. I’m incorporating poetry to the protagonist’s character, as I approach completion of the script for “cessatio.”

I’ve got a lot of interest from actors/actresses/students, the word’s going round now about it. Filming should begin in two-three weeks, should be fun. I’ll be using my back room for the set, which should include removing all of the furniture, purposely wrecking microwavable meals, and generally making the scene look bleak and stale.

Using David Lynch’s “Rabbits” and Gus Van Sant’s “The Last Days” as main inspirations, this should be quite a decent look at only one character, whilst using a ton of surrealistic techniques to try and disturb the viewer by what they see.

My girlfriend Annabelle’s playing a big role in helping set the scene up in the film, as well as doing the characters’ make-up and hair; AND actually starring in it with a creepy, methodical ballet piece. I can’t thank her enough for the help she’s providing, she’s amazing.

Hopefully I should have another update for you guys in a week. So thoroughly motivated to have this done and dusted by late January, so check my blog around that time.