its a "no"!

Ok so we got a letter of the film board and they have decided not to fund our project.
Now I know I should be pi**ed off but at least the team knows now and we can start to get production moving on this project.
expect more updates now that we are allowed to work away!

still no word

Still no word from the Irish Film Board on the state of our funding...so that means we cant work on it and cant submit any interesting posts to the blog.
Anyway ill post up as soon as i hear anything good or bad.

charecters

Pigeons

The pigeons at the start of the film are not so much characters that drive the narrative as opposed to a visual representation of our main protagonists and their fight is a glimpse of what is to come.
Both Pigeons are strong elegant and proud looking birds. Both are physically identical apart from the colours, one is a light brown and the other is dark. The colour of the birds directly represents the colour of the main characters Shane and Wilson.


Shane and Wilson

Shane and Wilson are two middle aged business men. They are a little disgruntled with life being workaholics that have let there best years pass them but they keep at it. Physically they are opposits, they don't really like each other but are unsure why, the never speak and have a personal unspoken rivalry. They dress alike in fancy clothes but the colour of their tailored suits is quite different, Shane's suit is light brown and Wilson's is black.
Both men fall for the same unsuspecting woman at the bus stop one morning and this brings the rivalry bubbling to the surface.

Lady

The Beautiful Lady that triggers Shane and Wilson's fight is a young business woman, very attractive with straw blond hair and dressed in a fitted grey skirt suit. She is engrossed in her book at the bus stop and doesn't notice the duel being fought by the two men in her name. She is career driven and would have very little interest in ether man even if she did see what was going on.

a sort of a synopsis

Well we arnt allowed to start work on the project quite yet, so what im doing to keep the blog ticking is post some bits and bobs from the package we handed to the Irish Film Board. so to start it of we have a sort of a synopsis to give an idea of what First Bus is about :

Synopsis

Shane and Wilson are both well to do middle aged business men.

They live in a very fancy apartment complex on the edge of a stunning high rise metropolitan city. They occupy the two penthouse apartments right at the top of the building directly adjacent to each other.

They have a lot in common but they are too proud to befriend each other, instead they have a deep unspoken rivalry that never really flares into an argument but usually fizzles out with a snide looks and assuming stares.

Every morning the two men get the first bus of the day to work. They have meticulously structured their morning rituals to the very second to make sure that they are at the bus stop in time. The men are so alike that their morning rituals are timed to exactly the same beat.

Wake Up/ Shower/ Breakfast/ Read the paper/ Coffee/ Dress/ Go!

Both men do these things at exactly the same time as each other as if they were synchronized!

But today they are destined to miss their bus, thanks to a beautiful unknowing unsuspecting Lady that both men fall for...is this what could finally bring these two men to blows?

the first.

Good Morning everyone.

This is the first post of what will soon be many on this blog.
We have managed to get our package/proposal put together and shipped off all the way to beautiful Galway City where the Irish Film Board will look at it and give us the go ahead or not.
Until we find out if we have it or not we must wait.
So cross your fingers for us :)

More productive and interesting posts to come in the future, stay tuned....