Planning: Round 1

My intial plan for the acting piece was to have the character at work (due to the lifting sound) talking informally to the camera as though it were a colleague about what he would do if guests were coming over. As the audio also features the twittering of birds throughout I realised the setting would need to be somewhat rural, coupled with the talk of hospitality the setting could be no other place than a southern whiskey distillery. Once again Jim Beam was required. My original plan had the character casually leaning on a barrel chatting informally, he then got up, continued to talk, walked around the barrel and performed a lift. This, I was informed, was far too much movement for an acting shot of this type and in hindsight it is embarrasingly obvious that I had indeed over- animated my piece even in the planning stages, here are some leftovers from the original plan and also a list of the beats I was to hit in terms of actions within the piece.