I'm getting really excited about this idea i've just had for my Perspectives on Directing screen excercises.

I want to do a contemporary screen version of the first scene from Medea. But I want to set it in a corporate setting. Medea is a senior executive, the nurse is her secretary, and the tutor is an advisor of some sort. The more I think about it the more I love it! ArghhhhhhhhhhhH!!!!!!! (Mark screams like a girl and runs around the house with his eyebrows raised incredibly high)

I did Medea in year 12, so I feel like I know it pretty well, and the recontextualising of it into a corporate setting is just exploding in my mind. I'll write a summary of the story up here soon, if people want to do it.

I've got heaps of other ideas whirling around my head as we speak.

Doing it depends on only two, but nevertheless significant, things:

1) some sort of officy looking locations being available to shoot in (maybe the staff offices corridoor at uni could be one, but its a bit recognisable. Any ideas anyone?)
2) two lovely people who would be willing to learn some moderately dense lines and rehearse a little bit. Adam and Jenko, I know i foreshadowed using you for a 'little' something, but would this be too much work for you? It might be 4 or 5 hours spread out over the next 3 or 4 weeks. And is anyone else interested?

A while ago, Jenko and I vowed to do some work on some classical texts, just as a good learning experience. And we need all the directing experience we can get...this kills two birds with one stone.

And if we do it well, it could be a really killer showreel piece.

Here is the section I was thinking of. Just click the image to view.

Any comments Jenko, as my assistant director, or Adam, as someone who has expressed interest in doing my screen excercises, would be hugely appreciated.