I have been working quite a bit on Redress lately, and it feels good to get my hands dirty again. As I work on developing the story more and more, I am considering changing the name to “Old Mill Road”. All of the major parts of the story happen on, you guessed it, “Old Mill Road”. Plus, I’m starting to get a little sick and tired of having to explain what “Redress” means. I think I was pushed over the edge when somebody linked the title of the film to a page on Wikipedia for redressing a theatrical set. For the record, my definition of Redress is: The setting right of what is wrong.
Personally, the more I think about it, Old Mill Road can have a creepy ring to it…you know.. never go out to Old Mill Road alone after dark…etc. I’ll play with it a little more before I make it final though. Hell, if I manage to sell the screenplay rather than make it myself, they can call it whatever they want.
As far as script updates, the script was just over 62 pages from beginning to end when I started on this last rewrite. There were number of vague descriptions, location shots were not broken down correctly and, quite frankly, there just wasn’t enough spooky stuff going on. With this new version of the rewrite I am about 1/4 through and the script has already grown to 88 pages. I want to have at least a 120 page script by the time I am done. Hopefully I’m adding some more tension and a couple more scares as well. It all depends how it is finalyl shot and edited, but I think this is a pretty original story we have going here.
Enough hot air for now…back to the grind…
For the record, I like “Redress.” (I assumed that your definition was what you meant before, erm, reading your definition. That was awkwardly stated.)
Anyway, I can see how it would be annoying to have to explain your title to a myriad of different people. If you do change it, though, you might want to consider something other than “Old Mill Road.” That one sounds a bit too obvious, to me.
Good luck with your script!