Start with a Bang

By Tony Vallone

So as many of you probably know, a good way to start a film is with a bang. Something exciting should happen. Something intriguing that makes us want to keep watching. Our film, until this past weekend, started with a little poot and then follows it up with not much until page 12. This has always been somewhat of an issue but Brad (director) and I have always thought that it was OK to start a little slow because once the stories break apart it gets really interesting. Independent films also play by their own rules.

So when our locations for the first 12 pages of the script started to fall through, we sat down and thought about changing the beginning to help production and help the film. What we ended up doing was cutting the need to film in the top of a bell tower and added a little mystery/intrigue/chase of our own. OverI am pretty happy with it and the film does starts off better now. It is funny how all these changes we’ve been wanting to make never happen until someone tells us we absolutely need to change it.