Yearning From Loss

It was supposed to be a crowning achievement. A Rumble Pictures producer had a short movie script recognized as worthy of funding. Rumble are specialists at martial arts, being capable of Matrix like action shots on no budget. However, Rumble have branched out, and shot a Closet Romantic film music video clip, a ‘clean up Australia’ advert and other psychological, rather than action, clips. Rumble are also filming a new martial arts feature, but this isn’t that. This is an award winning script showing the healing of a dysfunctional family in five minutes, with a cactus.
The producer/writer/director has held their part of the bargain. They rewrote the script to suit industry insiders, organized the filming of scenes and characters, introduced important people and sourced expertise.
Come the day, despite a prolonged period of drought, rain impeded on the scheduled shoot days. The Friday was shot in doors, as expected. The Saturday had periods of bright light and heavy cloud, the Sunday wasn’t required.
The intended equipment was unavailable at the last minute, so that a dysfunctional tripod, damaged, crackly sound boom and camera without proper fittings was all that was available. So that the lightest breeze made the voices unusable. The pictures could not be seen after they were shot for fear of messing up the digital tape. And the tripod was held by hand.
Then, to cap it off, while the producer was parked, and standing a few meters away, an uninsured, unregistered driver (any bets on whether or not they were also a dad?) totaled the producer’s car. The driver attempted to drive away, but the wheels of the two vehicles had locked.
So now this producer, who has this award winning script which they shot, but need to edit, has no car to get them to any of their meets. It isn’t just.