A girl and her first movie...

This is a story about children and letting them have dreams. Big dreams at that.

My little Maree (AKA Ree) has decided she wants to make a movie. I have no idea why exactly but i do know that she has been making animated shorts at school (THIS they teach in her 5/6 class...but apparently it doesn’t matter that she spells like a 2nd grader!). I have not seen the animated “thing” but she insists on telling me all about it. At great length. Even though i look and sound COMPLETLY uninterested.

I know parents/carers that always look interested in everything their little one does. I am not one of those people. I think children do to much talking these days....not enough listening. I know you have to ask questions so that you can learn things but i REALLY think that some listening first would not go astray. Seriously. They just don’t listen any more.

Back to this film business. I have no idea about anything to do with creative artistic endeavours. I FAILED drama at college. Really. I know some of you might find it hard to believe that i failed anything in my life but i did. I am not proud of it. I can’t help thinking that if i had turned up to the written exam i might have actually passed...but maybe not. I just don’t have it in me to act or write or direct etc. I may have been good at memorising all those lines but i am pretty sure my delivery left a lot to be desired.

I will tell you i quick story. At lower-primary i was in the school play. It was Aladdin. Every child got a part. I got to be the person in the shop who sold Aladdin a lamp. I wore all black and had no speaking lines at all. I did have the entire script memorised however so i was the prompt. That is always my lot in life – doing all the hard/important work and never getting to be out front in the pretty dress. *Sigh* But to be fair no one wants to see me in a dress...anymore than i want to wear one.

So i have no idea where Ree gets all this from. She is naturally bossy and talkative so this might be her thing. I myself see her as a future member of the federal police (a gun, in charge and a little bit intimidating). What i do know is that she is in “script development” and will be soon “story boarding”. I know. Crap. I have no idea where she got all this information from. I blame her school. One of those teachers must have told her about all this or gave her a book (bet they gave her a book, a long boring one that they thought she wouldn’t read).
Anyway i was not actually worried until breakfast the other morning when she asked if she could have stunt doubles. I replied that:

(a) She has no money for stunt doubles (or anything else for that matter) and
(b) That she was NOT going to be doing anything that required stunt doubles!!!!!

Needless to say this is probably going to be a long, tiresome process. But i am going to let her do it and will probably end up making all the costumes.

BTW the movie has time travel, war scenes and her brother gets to be the butler (which i am assured is a pivotal but non-speaking role, she really hates her brother THAT much).