Client Project - Producer confirmed / Script work continues

After some uncertainty as to how I might proceed with a producer outside of the course/uni,
my knight in shining armour has come in the form of Alan Vickerstaff, who has agreed to work with me on a fictional film for our client project.

This is great news as we have worked together before as a director/producer team and things went very well - I hope that this time around we can both improve on all areas of production.

The script is coming along and I hope to be at a stage where I can show it to my pseudo-client Deborah, and Jools (who is Alan's project lead).

I am under no illusions about insistently using my script; myself and Alan have already agreed that we will seek out alternative shooting material if the script is considered too weak by our respective tutors.

I do however love writing and am focussed on improving my skills as a writer and director to the extent that I can pursue a career as both. As long as we have some time to play with, I will continue to work on the script as I think shooting something I have written from scratch will be more engaging and rewarding in some ways than the alternative.

It also allows us tighter control over the elements of production (cast, locations etc) from an earlier point in the pre-production process, although this is a comparatively minor advantage as any script we work on will require a good deal of work to tailor it to a level where it stretches our abilities but does not go beyond the scope of our available time, resources and equipment.