My Cheap Film

**thelaughingduck2001** · June 8th, 2004, 05:30 PM

Might've mentioned it before, but I wrote a script in a day (that came to about sixty pages) that I've been refining ever since.

it's set on a council estate and was written after I saw La Haine (and refined after I saw Irreversible)

It's not a blatant rip-off (it's not actually a rip-off, it's 'INSPIRED') and I'm thinking of making it as a show-reel.

What I want to know is, do these movies still have a place? Obviously boundaries were broken when the aforementioned came out, so people wouldn't be hugely surprised if there was another. But as there hasn't been a spurt of tese kinds of (exploitation?) films (like the Tarantino and Lock Stock booms of the 90's) I was wondering if I could get away with it.

It'd be a pretty expensive showreel, and not something I would make for a few years, but-Is it worth doing? And does anyone want to read the script?

**Vlad the Impaler** · June 8th, 2004, 05:44 PM

I wouldn't mind having a read

**thelaughingduck2001** · June 8th, 2004, 05:47 PM

Then you can. Leave your e-mail address and I'll send a copy over on an attachment.

You're a composer right? Doubt you'll have Final Draft 6 then?

I'll have to paste it onto word and try and format it there.

**Vlad the Impaler** · June 8th, 2004, 05:54 PM

i have final draft viewer [img]smile.gif[/img] if that works?

send it to oddjob_uk at hotmail.com [img]smile.gif[/img]

**thelaughingduck2001** · June 8th, 2004, 06:08 PM

I'll copy and paste into word, send that as an attachment, then you can paste it into Final Draft.

It should convert to be.

But if BILLy is a scene heading and there's dialogue underneath it, you're clever enough to know that it's supposed to be a character name.

I'll get it to you by next week-Got to revise now and am going to Isle Of Wight Festival over the weekend.