I did a little on "The
Barrier" this week. My wife's illness has progressed and that is a
higher priority for me than this project, so I don't expect to have much time
for "The Barrier".
It's been at least a month since I did any work on "The Barrier". This week I got
back on to it. Mostly I planned out what I need to do, and I didn't do any
actual writing.
My main objective was to see how to fit the new scene I
developed into the story. I had to rework the outline to fit it in. I had to delete
one scene, add a new scene, and modify another scene to make it all work.
I also wanted to shift the focus of the story to give more
emphasis to the storyline about the traffic barrier and less on the traffic
impact study.
I deleted four scenes about the traffic impact study. I will
have to revise one other scene to patch up the problems caused when I cut the
other scenes. It was hard to delete the scenes because I thought they were good.
I had revised two of the scenes earlier and lost that material too.
That said, I think it improves the movie as a whole. They do
say that often you need to cut your favourite scene to make a movie work.
Fortunately, my favourite scene survived. At least so far.
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