Re-writes and Shot-lists.

This week there have been some issues with my groups work on our short film. One member of our group was assigned the job of putting together all of the different versions of our re-write into one final script. However due to Lydia having technical difficulties this took a lot longer than expected and caused some problems in terms of progressing with our film.
Due to the fact that we didn't have a script to work with during the session, we discussed who we thought would be good to play the two central roles in our film, as well as where we would like to shoot. We decided to meet up twice during the week to look for locations and get permissions sorted out well in advance of our shoot.
Mark and I met on Thursday morning with the intention of going location scouting using the script as a basis for finding locations. However we were unable to contact Lydia in order to get hold of the script. Our feeling was that there was a small chance that we would arrive at the lecture on Monday without any script at all, so I offered to re-write it again to be sure that we had something to work with.
Mark went location scouting on Saturday instead while I stayed at home and did the re-write. With the intention of saving time I decided to write the shot-list first, because I felt that it was more important to have a guideline of exactly what we needed to film. As a group we had already discussed in detail what kinds of shots we wanted to have in the film, as well as a scene by scene breakdown of the script. I was having trouble understanding how to use celtx when writing a shot list as opposed to a script so decided to use Microsoft Word instead. I then emailed my work to the rest of the group so that they could read it before the session.
I was planning on then writing out the final script but after emailing the group I realised that Lydia had managed to send out her version. Having read her script, I felt as though they it was similar enough to my shot-list that any inaccuracies or differences there may have been between the two could be talked through in the session with the rest of the group.
Hopefully we will also have some images of locations in which we intend to shoot by the end of the session which I can add to this blog.