And the genre is..... Sci Fi

I've just sat down and watched a slew of the production feeds on the biracy site and I'm excited to find out that the genre will be sci-fi. I love science fiction. I love it's capacity for projecting alternate realities. It can be totally escapist and fun, or it can be hardline and sobering. I love it when it is cheesy, and when it is totally believable.

The first biracy project film will be produced in Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver has become something of a mecca for filming this genre. As the participants in the video feed on the biracy site say, it seems only sensible to play to the strengths of the local film industry. With such mega-successes as X-Files, the Stargate series, the Twilight films, etc calling Vancouver home certainly bodes well for providing a talented pool to draw from.

I'm enjoying the format of these biracy production feeds, they are friendly and engaging. Each one leaves me feeling invited to add my two cents to the discussion, and indeed members are often asked for their opinions. I would like to be able to follow the progress of the film in a written format as well, however. It isn't always convenient to sit down and watch a five minute clip, and personally I take in more reading that I do watching. But that's just my personal information-collecting preference...

I'm looking forward to the writing process. It's something that's always fascinated me about movies and plays. Is the story fully-formed in the author's head first? How much does it change as it takes script form? Or is it written straight into a script format? I presume that as the roles are cast, the characters and their lines get tweaked to suit? I hope that we do get to see some of this process!