V1C4 Part2

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Chapter 4 part 2

The next lesson in Comprehensive Practicum 1 is what’s known as “Location Hunting” or what's commonly known as "Location Scouting"it is a vital process in pre-production once scriptwriters, producers or directors have decided what general kind of scenery they require for the various parts of their work that is shot outside of the studio, the search for a suitable place or "location" outside the studio begins.

With that purpose in mind we arrived at Kamikosawa Station via the Nankai Kouya Line. 

[“The weather is sooo~ refereshing.”]

Shinoaki took a big leap and landed on the platform.

[“The sun’s amazingly bright today huh~. I have to be careful to not get sunburned.”]

For today’s purposes Nanako has a parasol and accompanying with it a very actress-like aura. What she said rings true, getting a sunburn when filming would be disastrous as it would leave continuity errors.  

Originally location scouting would be done in multiple parts but since this is amateur work on a small scale we treated it like a field trip.

[“Isn’t it fine? I think it fits the image of what we are going for pretty well, as expected of Kyouya! ”]

Tsurayuki smiled at me as I exit the train, looks like someone is in a good mood.

[“Yeah, it might be so…”] 

In this excursion-like happy go lucky mood only I had a gloomy facial expression, but it can’t be helped because I know for certain that a gut wrenching event will be waiting for me. 

The location shoot advanced smoothly….

Well at the very least it looks like that on the surface as we didn’t get stuck on anything in particular but after we finished shooting we convened for a meeting at a family restaurant in front of Kishi station, and as I expected it was wrapped in a heavy atmosphere.

[“Were you the one that scrapped parts of the script?”]

I could only swallow my saliva in front of Tsurayuki’s words

[“If you keep the script as is, we’ll run out of time.”] [“So the script won’t fit the allotted time budget is that it?” ]   [“…Yeah”]

Shinoaki and even Nanako stayed quiet in this heavy atmosphere.

[“That’s why I’ll have to ask you to rewrite the whole thing.”]

[“I don’t want to take anything out of the script.”]

And just like that the request was shot down. I felt a sharp sense of tension coming from those words.

[“I…I see.”]

If for example, this was strictly for business and he was only a hired professional this would not have been as cut and dry as a yes or no but of course that wasn’t the case this time around.

[“Well you see it’s not like I want to oppose anything and everything, far from it in fact.”]

Probably because he saw that I was feeling troubled he sighed and spoke again

[“But I painstakingly made the script over a period of many days and suddenly being told after all of that, that there wasn’t any time for it then of course I can’t just suddenly respond with a “Yes, I understand” that easily.”]

[“Yeah I can see the sentiment…”]   [“That’s why I want you to explain it a little more, If I listen to everything and we can reach an agreement… Maybe then I can follow your lead no questions asked.”] [“…I understand.”]

In regards with the original plans for the film that we have

How did the production estimate completely exceed the time budget?

First of there are many scenes in it, the location shoot alone takes a lot of time.

Then considering the time and effort for editing it increasingly becomes more burdensome and unrealistic.

I intended to explain each and everyone of it properly, however…

[“Wouldn’t you usually need to shoot the film it first to know if it really would exceed it or not, ”]

[“No of course not… That’s why earlier I measured it with a stopwatch, It was a slight difference yes, but there was still a difference.”]

[“Then let’s just ask Shinoaki, How about it Shinoaki is going to go over the time limit?”] 

[“Hmmm, I can’t say for sure… but it might just be a teensy bit long.”]

[“See there it is! If it’s only a bit long then we can manage by editing it.”]

[“I-It can’t be done. Editing should be done after proper calculations, doing it in production is a bit…”]

[“Then how about speeding up the delivery of the dialoge? Can’t Nanako do something about that?”]

[“Well, It is possible…But will that really solve our problem?”]

[“Isn’t it going to save time?”]

[“It will but that alone won’t help very much.”]

[“You can’t know for sure unless we try it!”]

[“Even if it goes over the limit a little bit, If it’ results a good product won’t that be enough? Let’s just take a leap of faith, how about it huh?”]

Tsurayuki’s tone has turned rougher. The words seemingly gnaw at you.

(What should I do…If I allow the limit here then when do we stop? Would there be no end to the allowances?)

[“W-well…”]

Just then and there I came up with a reason to persuade Tsurayuki. But can he really be convinced with this?

No, before everything else our purpose here is to complete this task.

Tsurayuki was so excited for this that he couldn’t make any compromises

I have to take control of this situation.

[“This was the task given to us and unless we follow the rules we won’t get any grade”]  

Tsurayuki’s ears twitched.

[“Is that so?”]

It’s not a lie. The instructions clearly states 3 minutes.

Well in actuality its probably not that strict, I’m guessing that there’s at the very least some leeway in the seconds. But still it’s not a lie.

[“Yeah… It might even be the cause of our failure.]

[………………]

Tsurayuki stayed silent 

Following suit, the rest of us also sank into silence.

The evening approaches, the middle school and high-school students begin crowding the family restaurant and the clatter of their conversations fill the room,  yet only our seats was continuing to permeate an air of silence.

I wonder if about 15 minutes have already passed when…

[“I’m not completely satisfied yet but-”]

Tsurayuki stood up and with his back turned on us.

[“Everything would be meaningless if we don’t get our work graded. Fine then, I’ll condense the screenplay. ”]

[“T-Thank you Tsura-”]

Suddenly Tsurayuki blocked my words.

[“I thought you would have given a better answer”]

[“Ah-”]

[“What boring reasoning…”]

With those parting words he left the store.

[“…………..”]

The words couldn’t come out.

[“Tsurayuki didn’t have to say those words…!”]

[“Nice one Nanako.”]

I couldn’t say anything because he was right.

Reasoning it’s because of “rules”, and because it was the “task”. Maybe if I promised from the start that it would make everything better.

As Tsurayuki said so, maybe all of this wouldn’t have happened if I made a suitable plan from the get-go.

[“Kyouya-kun…”].

Shinoaki called out to me seemingly worried, but I was already too out of it to respond.