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I'm finally learning from years of "lol just start writing" and actually planning out a screenplay for once. It's not gonna be too terribly long, but I want to start a project and see it through to completion, right down to shooting and editing the fucker.

What are you working on? What can you show us?

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I'm not showing you shit. Three years ago I posted a skeleton outline and some passages about a really awesome idea I had, and within SIX MONTHS some slimy fucker had made it into a STV movie.

I KNOW HE STOLE IT FROM ME. IT WAS THE EXACT SAME MOVIE I HAD OUTLINED.

So no, fuck you. I'm working on what I'm working on and I'll reveal it to the slush piles once it's been sufficiently copyrighted. Fuck you.

I just do this for the fun of it. If it gets made, I get the satisfaction ofnknowing my work was at least good enough to steal. Fortunately I highly doubt anything I do will be THAT good.

Here, as proof, this is my next short in it's simplest and purest form: a quick and dirty outline showing the basic beats of what happens in the story. This way I have a rhythm going when I actually start writing the fucker.

No details, no flourishes, pure plot.

And yes, it's lying on top of chapter 3 of Syd Field's screenplay guide.

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Topics of discussion aside, wow, your handwriting is pretty bad my friend.

It's my own way of protecting my intellectual property, let's say.

Ngl though yeah I was never the best at that.

I find I write stage plays way more than I work on screenplays even though I want to be a filmmaker and my main artistic interest lies in film rather than theatre. Idk why, plays are easier to write than movies

They can adapt pretty well, so you can always consider that venue.

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This was something I made that was adapted out of a one act play I wrote with my friends. It's one of the actual most well-done things I've ever been heavily involved in.

gonna be honest i stopped watching the second that friday song came on, not knocking it just not going to continue

I mean, plenty of my short plays have been produced and I'm confident I can sell my full length stuff to the right theaters, it's just that for me the two styles are very different so it's hard to imagine something I envision for the stage working on film. I guess there are a couple of my plays that could be adapted fairly well but in order to do it in an interesting way I'd have to get in quite a bit of practice adapting stuff. Never written anything based on another work before.

Believe me I totally get it. That was his joke, I thought it was funny at the time.

2014 was a different time.

i think the reason my first instinct was to stop the video was because i can envision my former self doing the same kinds of shit and i just cringed too hard at the things i have done and, even worse, the things i could have done given the chance

it is better for the world i did not have the resources to make films in high school (and now desu)

I get that. Look at shit like Reservoir Dogs/Hateful Eight, see how they use the limitation of the stage or a single location to their advantage.

Imagine if "Friday" had started playing during the maiming scene instead of "Stuck in the Middle with You"

I'm still writing my pilot script, which I have been writing for like two years.

I'm just struggling with the length, its 37 pages right now, and that's maybe like 40 minutes if its stretched out.

I really don't know what to do, I don't want to inject the script with random ass scenes to reach the average of like 50 pages.

So cut it down to a half hour show

Motherfucker

its a drama though, I don't really see that flying with executives, if it ever happens

Ah, don't know what to tell you then. That's what sucks about TV, it's so structured and has to fit those corporate time slots. Not a fan, don't even own a television myself

im shooting a new docu about old people that I wrote a month ago.

is it a porn

no

Okay well tell me what it is then
also what camera do you use

I've been writing mine for about 2 years now. Doing a final revision pass to make sure it's nice and clean. Unfortunately it's been really tough and I'm cutting a ton of fat that I didn't even know I had. Lots of changing of scenes and so on. Probably going to be doing this for another few months.

Dude, I had that same teacher from the video.

It is a 10 min docu about an apartment complex for seniors.. They all live their independently, so its not an elderlyhome like how we used to dump the oldies the last 60 years. Where they would rot and only have bingo evening once every month.

Holland is getting very grey and the young people can't keep paying for their pensions. And at the same time there aren't enough healthcare workers for all the old people. So the people working to pay their pensions also have to take care of their own parents. And in this house they live independently and take care of themselves with help from one another. Its about the social dynamics in that building. Groups of friends that are forming. Isolation, exclusions etc etc


Was shot on a Sony F7
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With this lens on it.
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Obviously rented equipment, but how did you go about that? Got someone producing it?

how fucking rich are you to have that camera holy shit
also sounds neat
is it a happy movie or sad one?

Well obviously its rented. Who the fuck buys their own equipment. If you wanna fuck around with a camera in your spare time then use your phone. If you are actually ready you rent it.

Its only 200 euros a day. And a company is paying for the docu because they have some stakes in the building. And its a good thing for their marketing department to have. Then theres a producer who got the assignment. Then me directing, a camera guy and a soundguy.


Its going to have a pretty positive tone. But not fake happy/emtional.

*The camera setup is only 200 euros a day