Like I promised in one of my previous blogs, here's a continuation of the characters of the film. I still don't have a title for the film yet but I know the names of the characters and their gender. I have actors too, but there might be some complications with two out of four of them, so I'm only introducing you guys to two of the actors.
This is Diego Ramirez. He will be playing A who I named Kyle. Kyle is the character who is suffering from MPD. He is an introvert and is very antisocial.
This is Patricia Ramirez. She is Cynthia, one of Kyle's split personalities. She is very hot-headed and manipulative. She is very self-righteous and likes to control Kyle. She always wants things to go her way and does not handle opposition very well.
We start filming over the weekend and since the other two actors haven't confirmed yet, we'll only been filming their parts. At first I thought that we would be done filming in one day and that I would have over two weeks to edit but then when the complications started to arise, I realized that we'll definitely need more filming days.
I have been working on the script this week and I think it's coming along okay. It'll be fully done soon, definitely before the weekend starts because I need a script to give to the actors. I've been trying to approach the script from different angles, trying to nail the MPD aspect of it, but writing it I realized something very important: with the direction this film is going in (script and plot wise), the disorder might possibly seem like schizophrenia. I feel like this is somewhat a game changer because I've been so focused on the idea of MPD/DID that I didn't realize that I was kind of deviating from it. Well, not entirely deviating but just that to an audience it may seem like MPD or possibly schizophrenia. I don't think I'm going to address that in any way because after the aforementioned realization, I also remembered that nowhere in the film will I explicitly state that the disorder is MPD. Therefore, I want to leave it open to interpretation. In my view, it will be MPD but since it matches the characteristics of other psychological disorders, the audience can assume whichever disorder they think fit. I feel like not declaring a disorder would be a problem for an actual film, but since I'm only filming the opening part of it, I don't have to worry so much about the minor details which are not important in relevance to my film-opening.
Anyway, I'm very happy that I have a certain plan now with filming and the actors. I'll keep you guys updated about our filming and the other two actors.
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