We now have a script.  Our very own Derek Hayes has been hard at work writing the most deep and obscure juxtaposition of scenes known to University College Falmouth.
I have been going through it with him, taking some of it out and shifting some of it around.  I found it interesting how keen I was to engage with the characters in the form of a more traditional narrative structure, while Derek has been staying closer to the original idea, which was to be totally abstract, while giving us a tantalising glimpse of a story.  Obviously, the result will be somewhere between the two and in the end we agreed on most things.  It won't be a massive re-write, more of a strengthening, a re-jig and a cut or two.  There are some fantastic visual moments in it and some good jokes (some that I didn't get at all).  But it was the strange, surreal elements that I liked best and this is what I'm hoping will make it really interesting, that our two characters will inhabit a world where anything is likely to happen.

Here is one of the concept pieces, based on a scene from the script.  We both had a go at doing the image, this one is mine, a more organic, decaying scene, but we are going to go with Derek's (which I don't have yet but will put up soon), which is a more orderly, sinister approach to the same idea.  (Does this sum up the difference between us?!!)

We have also presented the project to several of the University staff at one of the monthly Research Bites and appealed for collaborators.  This is really what we now need, to get a good team on board.  And so with this in mind, Derek and I will discuss the next steps at Rick Stein's chippy this evening.
More later...