James's Work
Themes, Locations & Characters
Robert's Work
Changes we had to make
Originally in the script, we had our main character (Dave) attempt to kill himself after suffering depression about him being a nobody. This was spoken to him by Kate after saying "You're a nobody, the people here wouldn't notice if you disappeared". Dave is suddenly stopped by Damien who stops him from taking his life.
We had to remove that part of the script because the location that we were shooting at had a real life case where as it happens, somebody behind the sound and lighting rig killed himself.
Instead, we replaced the scene with Dave sitting on the stage, still upset with himself but not so much that he tries to kill himself. Damien then walks in and essentially cheers him up. There were times in the script where the rope which Dave was going to use to kill himself was going to be shown in shot as a way of foreshadowing; so we had to remove all traces of the rope as we were changing the ending.
The film covers certain themes, specifically fraud which occurs throughout as Kate starts expresses her concern over Damien who she thinks is committing fraud. There are several real life articles of similar events such as this one;
Source: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/man-admits-180-000-fraud-at-leeds-grand-theatre-1-6916134
Similar to this article, a man who worked at a theater committed fraud to the sum of £178,340 which went missing from the theater's account. This is a similar case in our film where Kate (the journalist) uncovers that there's missing money coming from the theater's accounts.
Our film also has a play of Macbeth which is being rehearsed throughout the film. It's essentially a film within a film or a story within a story, as such many great examples of this exist such as The Equestrian Vortex, which is a film shot within an existing film called Berberian Sound Studio.
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