Writing, as I may have mentioned over previous BBC Video Diaries, may be the most boring thing there is to film. Where We Come From, the script I have been developing over much of the last year with my co-writer Helen Solomon, has moved into stage two - Workshops. This first new diary covers that area of script development for our follow-up feature to One For The Road, so hopefully not too many shots of a man sat in front of a computer typing.

My films are always collaborative efforts, and everyone involved is a writer.

Apologies that I'm not including any footage from the workshops, or talking too much about the great actors we are working with - it seems a little too intrusive and complicated contractually to include them here in the diary... instead this gives me a fantastic opportunity to say thanks to them for their dedicated contributions to writing the second draft of my/our screenplay.

My films are always collaborative efforts and everyone involved is a writer. This time we are being even more precise at defining that process, as we explain in the video diary.

Thanks to Steve Shiel, my co-writer on World Of Pain and the camera operator and interviewer on this. The next diary will look at turning workshop material into scripted material, the second draft and more shots of an out-of-shape, exhausted looking me... see ya soon.

Chris Cooke | Published 17 February 06

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