I'm reading scripts trying to get better at writing them. I want to enter some contests and (if I win any of them) possibly team up with some indie producers by the end of next year.
Ryan Perez
80's Script guy here
I've been going through a rough couple of days lately, and during that time I decided to try opening up a new project to get my mind off things. Just wrote a page, no clue where I want it to go, but it helped me feel a little better.
Jason Jackson
Sounds like Michael is going to have at least a few more rough days than you are.
Nathan Russell
writing a psychological horror under the guise of a rom-com and then directing it there-after
Nolan Morales
That's one way of putting it, yeah.
Originally I was thinking about writing a crime movie in the guise of a painfully generic indie comedy, but I feel like I couldn't pull that off with this opening.
Lincoln Morris
I don't know if it's just my depression getting worse, but I'm no longer interested in any of the ideas I've been pursuing.
First 3-ish pages of a low-budget horror flick. Also, first time I've ever attempted writing a script, but I'm finding it's a lot of fun.
Sebastian Ortiz
I remember you, good stuff.
Daniel Ross
I could see you tweaking the tone a bit and getting a pretty unique crime/indie comedy. Like an accidental kidnapping story, or something. I would watch it.
Adam Morales
Just finished a feature screenplay! Well, "finished", I still need to edit the whole motherfucker, but I'm glad I wrote the first draft of the final page of this one. It feels good.
Biggest issue now is getting a camera to shoot some short stuff I had in mind. I really have my eye on a GH4, but I'm questioning putting a thousand and a half on just a body, one lens, and nothing else. However, I've used it before, and I love it, so I'm leaning towards just working some more freelance gigs and getting some part-time, non-related job to save up the cash.
Sebastian Jackson
Hey, thanks.
One of the reasons I love these threads is seeing people's work develop. It's a shame they don't tend to last very long.
Charles Wood
taking shit step by step making that proper logline. bigger bitch than I realized. Not just the 1+2. but the 1+2=3 one, the real one.
Oliver Williams
Yeah, that'd be cool.
Part of why I want to write this is just my extreme disdain for the idea that indie movies have to be Napoleon Dynamite-style quirkfests, and going in using the idea to fuck with people's expectations would be fun.
The other reason is I've been listening to This Year by the Mountain Goats almost on a loop for the past day. Inspired something in me, along with Andrew Jackson Jihad's People album.
Isaac Ross
What're your guys' best loglines? i remember you from last thread
Gabriel Brooks
Hey hey what up
Isaiah Thomas
good on you with your thing
i hate twee shit too
you gonna direct your script after you finish it?
Parker Turner
I think you should pursue it, it could be great. Also, A+ indie writing music.
Camden Taylor
In the process of making the finishing touches on a tv pilot. I joined this free online course specializing in tv pilot writing and the feedback I've gotten has improved my work so much.
In addition to that I'm outlining an indie, coming of age type movie. The only one I can realistically shoot of all the ideas I have.
Pic related is a little excerpt from the pilot. How's my formatting?
Benjamin Clark
I'll probably direct, yeah. The 80's script is what I'm focusing on now though. Still gotta find an actor for one of the main characters...
I might.
Also, ayyy what up.
Thomas Evans
What's the course?
And I remember a previous version of this, your formatting has improved a lot. Nice work!
Chase Jenkins
good shit senpai
good luck
Henry Howard
So who has dropped screenwriting software in favor of this open, human-readable markup?
>this year by the mountain goats fuck yes user Finally another fan of TMG, they're so fucking great. Listen to any of their unreleased stuff? it's top
Benjamin Morris
It's on coursera.org and is called "Script Writing: Write a Pilot Episode for a TV or Web Series (Project-Centered Course)"
I don't wanna sound like a shill but I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to create and write for their own tv show.
Blake Young
I did a lot of stuff on coursera a few years back with comp sci, it's pretty cool they're hosting screenwriting stuff now. I'll check it out.
Eli Clark
Recently finished writing the pilot for a web-series with my friend. It was supposed to be Flight of the Conchords but with two film students, but the style of it changed a bit.
Trying to find the rest of the cast, but we're looking to start soon.
John Kelly
I've just really been listening to a couple songs, finally caved because a friend of mine fucking loved them and I was in a bad way so I thought why not
Andrew Collins
I wish they had something similar for movie scripts. It would really help me be able to turn my stuff from loglines to drafts.
Kevin Ward
He's such a great storyteller, I actually started outlined and writing a beat sheet loosely based on Transcendental Youth, but I think his work is best done in three minute increments with his own voice.
That and his novel, which is actually pretty fucking neat. It's one of those works where I'd rather not see an adaptation, since the written format works so well for the story.
Cooper Harris
Good work, user. And I'd go with the camera you've used and love, especially to start out. If you're just planning on submitting to festivals and building up a portfolio, it should be more than good enough.
Michael Rogers
I might listen to more of them now, I've got literally nothing but free time and I'm looking to ease the guilt of quitting a job that my dad gave me after two days.
I'm a fucking asshole. I just didn't want a job there.
Luke Martinez
I don't have any loglines I've really polished up, but here's a two drafts I found in my docs:
>Three D-list actors find themselves being kidnapped and hunted down by a deranged fan of the straight-to-DVD horror film they all starred in, who believes that the killers work must be finished.
>A young couple meet and fall in love moments before their untimely deaths and find they are destined for opposite ends of the afterlife. The pair must fight angels and demons, ghosts, spirits, and even the Gods themselves to stay together.
Charles Martinez
>>Three D-list actors find themselves being kidnapped and hunted down by a deranged fan of the straight-to-DVD horror film they all starred in, who believes that the killers work must be finished.
but is that a proper logline tho? that's more like a pitch hook
Kevin Reed
The second one isn't proper, actually. I didn't write them as deliberate loglines, they're just notes in my notes, haha.
Landon Anderson
I'm 13 pages into a short film. I quite like it and I'd share it, but I'm actually writing it for someone else.
Colton King
Good shit
Ryder Martin
they sound pretty good user I'm looking forward to them. particularly the first- fuck it's catchy
Liam Jenkins
Writing a feature at the moment about a author with writer's block trying to reclaim his former acclaim by writing a book of interviews on suicide and why people do it. Inspired to find the reason why people kill themselves through the unexplained suicide of his best friend in college many years ago.
His grip on reality becomes fractured, when his life, work, and mind becomes upended by a visiting author to his college he teaches at.
Carson Powell
Thanks, dudes.
I'll be sure to post my progress around here when I start the process of actually writing them.
Aiden Allen
Your dialogue's weird. Stilted, I guess.
Samuel Walker
writing the first draft at the moment.
Samuel Brooks
the actors one is great afterlife one = nah
William Diaz
Idk if I should buy the rokinon cine 16mm lens for my T5i. give me opinions
Caleb Ramirez
watch "mistress" with robert wuhl and robert de niro
pretty much the same story. might help
Anthony Anderson
I think it seems stilted because there's no action to break it up. Dialogue doesn't usually run so long uninterrupted. It's not necessarily bad.
Cameron Wright
nigga i'm trying to get the sigma 8-16mm
i want that look that chris doyle made for "fallen angels"
Jeremiah Price
I'm set to work on a crew for a feature length indie starting next week and I'm super excited about it.
Also there's a reason we usually separate the /swg/ and /fmg/.
Ryan Nguyen
meant that post for you.
the inciting incident that visiting author?
i'm guessing that he reminds the dude of his dead best friend?
inside llewyn davis is also kind of similar
Jayden Evans
Thanks for the honest opinion. I'm actually trying to play genre bingo with myself, the afterlife one is supposed to be a rom-com type thing. I think chicks would dig it. I'll work on the logline tho.
Asher Wood
very cool. how did you get involved with that?
Liam Clark
very nice
become friends with as many people as possible
Jonathan Evans
We shhould just pull the trigger and buy the lenses.
Also, what's fallen angels?
Adam Long
OP here, I chose to combine them because both have been inactive lately.
Easton Young
i like the actor's one too.
It's like real life, when some uknown starred in some shitty movie early in life and it just comes back to haunt them, years later
Scrap "The sun's just beginning to set on the horizon." It's just superfluous.
Levi Green
This is later in the story when he's visitng an old classmate that was friends with his best friend who killed himself and himself.
He's been trying to talk with him so he can get some more information about their friend, when he finally does there's this almost beating around the bush in their conversation.
Max doesn't like David.
Caleb Rodriguez
The inciting incident being on the way home from dinner with the visiting author, he and his wife pass a police crime scene, a suicide, which prompts him to write about suicide as a subject.
Julian Roberts
ah he's your obi wan.
who's david?
Landon Martinez
That's fair, I've just always used Day/Night because of reasons.
Charles Jackson
The protagonist of the story.
Jonathan Barnes
no worries, the actors one is something i'd pay to go see
Andrew Jones
Too much expositional information, long and unnatural speech patterns, unnatural conversational flow. Makes it all feel wooden. Either we already know a lot of the information the characters are talking about due to the images you've shown us, or you're overloading and subsequently boring the audience.
Ryder Ross
I hate getting new ideas while I'm working on other projects.
Aaron Lewis
A friend from high school knew a guy that was shooting and she got me in contact with him. It was really weird. Just kinda fell into my lap
Camden Jenkins
iktf
Nathan Edwards
also
Alexander Sullivan
I have a DSLR but it's shit in darker areas and when the ISO is higher on videomode there are dead/heat pixels.
What are good amateur video cameras that won't break the bank?
Eli Thompson
Just keep them all written down somewhere. I've got more than 30 different story ideas and I fight the urge to flip-flop around constantly.
David Martin
just rent cinema cameras senpai
Jayden Scott
...not to say that I'm still in high school. I'm out of college.
Just wanted to clarify.
Liam Diaz
T3i Rebel have always been good starting cameras. Or a Canon 30D I think that's what they're called. I use it all the time at the place I feelance at and it has great picture. And also I don't know how to use their real cameras yet.
Julian Smith
bump
Jeremiah Gomez
Anyone here film guerilla?
Set stories
has anyone gotten kicked off of locations? Workarounds? Ways to hustle on location?
Joshua Watson
you should read up on how the '28 days later guys did it' it's not guerilla per se, but their rigs were. hand-held digital cameras. ect
Cameron Robinson
Right.
I usually film guerilla and somehow barely get away with it.
Fake blood on walls without permission with a bloodied up actor playing dead shouldn't be let off so easily but for some reason I've been lucky.
I usually find that when you approach rent-a-cops first IN THE MIDDLE OF SHOOTING, they will let you shoot on-location for a limited amount of time.
Anthony Sanchez
What's the general opinion on a Sony A7RII? Might purchase one soon to shoot some short films
Mason Sullivan
i've been doing some grip work recently with the promise of camera work in the future.
things are going alright. it's definitely been fun still trying to make a living off it, though.
Jackson Jenkins
Great camera but make sure you get either more batteries or some kind of external power.
It fucking drains bro.
Wyatt Lewis
Fantastic low light shooter, full frame, some good native lenses for it, adapters for the rest. It's a great camera for shooting if you're okay with it getting a bit hot and it eating through batteries.
Jose Taylor
Get a battery grip, fixed my problem with the a7s.
Dominic Jenkins
No but I've got a short I want to shoot which I'm gonna have to go guerilla on. Takes place mostly in a car, thinking about renting or building a rig. Will the cops give a shit if we're driving around in a decked-out vehicle? Only plan on shooting at night in relatively desolate areas. Driving takes should be quick.
Benjamin Green
Cops wouldnt care too much I think
Jackson Campbell
whats the best sort of beginner camera to buy to shoot film? im not talking about anything to make a movie with, but i want to try and work on using lighting, shadow, camera movement etc
Nicholas Reed
It pains me to hear that you're depressed as you are probably a great guy. Please get out of this rut
Jaxson Smith
literally any camera that's not your phone as you can't control exposure well on your phone (unless you buy some app or something)
i recommend a canon t3i
Aiden Wilson
>(unless you buy some app or something) For iPhones, FiLMiC works wonders.
Anthony Scott
I've seen shorts at festivals filmed on tablets, so I guess anything really does go
Zachary Allen
Is it going to be hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, or..? Good job finishing it, anyway. And good luck making it.
Elijah Hughes
stuck waiting up all night for the editor to finish a cut for network, i mean i'm sending it from home which is nice but jesus christ i just want to sleep
Thomas Butler
I feel that doggo so hard honestly
Hunter Sanders
bimp
Angel Morgan
I hope you got to go to bed by now, user.
Levi Russell
nope! still waiting, then there's the ~70 minute export time once it's actually handed off
Jason Anderson
>tfw slowly but surely over the last year i've been learning after effects, cinema4d and making instrumental film score shit in ableton ah yeah, it's coming soon boyz. the true kino. now if only i could get a grip on cinematography so my shit doesn't look like home movies.
Adam Cooper
we should work together friendo
Blake Wright
>i've been learning after effects
learning how to make some fancy lower thirds...figured that'd be the most practical thing to start with when you work in reality
