Working on the storyboards for the short film, Birthday Girl, written and directed by Erin Laing. The script won a major funding award and now Erin and her co-producer are neck-deep in location-scouting and casting.

Birthday Girl will be filmed in March – which is coming up fast – but Erin has the project in hand. She’s made a couple short films before and she’s worked on a few major productions (she was Aronofsky’s assistant on The Fountain). Also, she’s documenting the whole production process on her blog.

“Birthday Girl” started out as a working title for the script. We knew about the Nicole Kidman film and wanted to avoid using it; but now it’s kinda taken on a life of its own.

As for the storyboards, I’m jumping around a lot. There are about ninety shots, so they’re all very sketchy and quick. Not nearly as cool as Tonci Zonjic’s storyboards (oh, I notice he did a cellist too).