So, lets do the standard.
What have you been working on??
Good Luck
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So, lets do the standard.
What have you been working on??
Good Luck
Completed two ultra low-budget music clips (as a lead from this very board no less) -
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Still working on "Sexton Lovecraft" and his adventures through several drafts and several writers.
Should be moving house in August, fingers crossed.
"The Sticks" is a bit flat on its face right now. I contacted the local film board who were also threatening to start a networking event, but even they were less than enthusiastic. So it looks like London is the nearest place for me to go and network (which isn't a huge surprise, just disappointed at the response from immediately local moviemakers). Guess I'll have to stop being so lazy and get my ass on the train.
I've also been buying up stuff for my own location sound kit. If things fit my schedule I'm still happy to work for expenses and food as I build up my portfolio. I recently did some pick-ups for a short film called "Comicman".
http://www.harp28.com
Been busy working on short films for the museum I am hired by which in turn helped us get some coverage at a conference in London a few weeks back and have had a call to teach another one in November with my colleagues.
On top of that completing a zero budget music video that can be found here - www.fleetfilms.co.uk as well as trying to finally get my teeth stuck into a feature film idea I have had for years. Managed to get someone to be my script editor which has helped a lot lately.
Plus, I lost my password so couldn't log in [img]tongue.gif[/img]
This Summer has been pretty good...
I shot a couple shorts. One HD and one S16. Now, I am getting ready to do a feature in October as well as a few other small projects.
It would be nice to bust out the Super8 camera for a one-reel.
Good Luck
Shooting a music video in 2 days time. Building a set that's about the same time as my flat. Spent the last 2 days in my dad's garage trying to get use sheets of wood to hold together using only panel pins. Should edit itself if we pull it off so i'll post a link. Looking forward to producing something i won't have to beg people to watch (a 2 and a 1/2 hour runtime puts people off).
Still read the board pretty often, just don't comment unless i have something to say (which is rare).
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="24">HOLY SHIT!!</font>Quote:
Originally posted by Nigel:
I shot a couple shorts. One HD
I know!!! Hard to believe ism't it???
It was shot on the HVX200 with little problems except the lighting ratios had to be closer and the highlights clip while the shadows crush out. It looks decent but I would have preferred to shoot film.
Good Luck
Trying to buy the rights for a pulp fiction series and turn it into a TV series. Once I got the rights I already have my eye on two writers and a director to sort out things. Thinking of attaching a famous name to it to get more kudos.
Other than that I am helping a published author to turn her life's story into a West End play. This may be an interesting one...
Writing.
Writing and looking for Producers and Directors to work with that don't expect a 120 page screenplay a month from today.
Writing and explaining to Producers and Directors that their 10 minute short only needs ONE act NOT THREE.
Writing and explaining to Producers and Directors that I write to the story and not some arbitrary budget they thought up without waiting for a script and a breakdown.
Writing and explaining to Producers and Directors that we don't NEED a line of dialogue there because the actors are going to ACT that bit.
Writing and explaining to Producers and Directors that the audience WILL get that bit WITHOUT it being spelled out in crayon because unlike them the audience isn't a fucking moron.
Writing and explaining to Producers and Directors that the script I wrote for their TV pilot doesn't blow. The premise and characters they gave me to work with blows.
But mostly writing and looking for interesting people that want me to write for them.
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How about you?
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I just shot something on the HVX200 as well, I thought it looked fantastic in bright sunlit shots, but shockingly crap in low light situations.Quote:
Originally posted by Nigel:
shot on the HVX200 with little problems except the lighting ratios had to be closer and the highlights clip while the shadows crush out.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is another thing I hate about film school. Everyone's teaching from a textbook in this very rigid, generic sense, instead of more organically.Quote:
Originally posted by jb.:
Writing and explaining to Producers and Directors that their 10 minute short only needs ONE act NOT THREE.
Writing and explaining to Producers and Directors that we don't NEED a line of dialogue there because the actors are going to ACT that bit.
Writing and explaining to Producers and Directors that the audience WILL get that bit WITHOUT it being spelled out in crayon because unlike them the audience isn't a fucking moron.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ July 17, 2007 11:37 AM: Message edited by: Untamed Aggression ]</font>
Sure...Untamed. I think your bitch is that they teach you that killer sandwiches are lame-ass-shit no matter what. [img]wink.gif[/img]
As for the HVX it is still video and it still looses data when it clips. Does it look good--Yes. Does it have a look that I would choose day after day--No.
Good Luck
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Actually, I'm not talking about any of the scripts I've written. I didn't bother submitting anything last year 'cos I knew I didn't have anything they'd go for ('cos, as you say, killer sandwiches are lame-ass-shit).Quote:
Originally posted by Nigel:
Sure...Untamed. I think your bitch is that they teach you that killer sandwiches are lame-ass-shit no matter what. [img]wink.gif[/img]
But they choose the most pedestrian, middle-of-the-road screenplays for production, and if one slips through the net that actually has potential to be interesting, they develop those elements out of it.
I would agree Untamed. When I was in my final year of University, my film production class had the chance to write scripts and pitch them to the rest of the class. Thus, the early weeks leading up to the pitch the teachers taught us the way to write scripts. At no point during the classes did they tell us to be original with our writings, but instead showed us popular shorts and tell us of the generic form of which they are written. This lead to most scripts that got pitched being practically all the same and actually getting marked in the evaluation as to whether they conformed to usual style of script writing.
I'm currently editing material for a dvd. Its for the Office of Children's Ombudsman and comprises interviews, animation and short films*, all of which I also directed. Its a decent paycheck and dealing with children's rights, the karma is sky high.
This has meant that my feature film "Memoria", will have to languish in "very-nearly-there-limbo" a little longer.
I also have a screenplay deadline for Aug 17th that I have very little hope of making...but you never know I guess.
*Oh and the film has still not arrived from the lab (Todd-AO - the A must be for avoid) despite being guarantted it would arrive on fri at 1pm. Its tuesday night. 27 phone calls later....Did they courier it? No. Registered post? No. Regular post? Yes.
Un-fucking real. Film rushes by regular post. This is valuable shit. I've lost 3 days of editing cos of these planks.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ July 24, 2007 05:25 PM: Message edited by: Generic Skinhead ]</font>
A question for the bods that went to film school because I'm curious about the process:
Do they teach screen writing? I mean in a formal classroom setting with tutorials and discussions or are you supposed to get it by being exposed to films in an osmosis kind of way?
I was just wondering how they did it and what your thoughts were about the value of it? I'm hoping to improve my craft a bit so I'm p/t at uni studying English lit. (Third time around at uni for me -- Gah!) and I'm kinda curious as to the different approaches that are being used (if there are any?).
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, from my experience at the Northern Film School...Quote:
Originally posted by jb.:
Do they teach screen writing? I mean in a formal classroom setting with tutorials and discussions or are you supposed to get it by being exposed to films in an osmosis kind of way?
In the first year, we spent the second semester writing scripts. It was a kind of workshop environment, where we'd pitch our ideas, spend a week or two writing it, then bringing them in and reading them out to each other. Our "tutors" gave us the very basics of screenwriting, like layout, three act structure and such.
In our second year, it was one of our specialisms that we chose, but it didn't actually count towards our grades. Again we didn't have any proper lectures, it was just the vague idea of a screenplay and writing to those specifications.
Im just wondering as we scare off all the female members that have been on this board, has this contributed to the board being dead ?
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Are you suggesting that women do nothing but talk?Quote:
Originally posted by Chance1234:
Im just wondering as we scare off all the female members that have been on this board, has this contributed to the board being dead ?
'Cos y'know, that's pretty..... accurate.
M|A|R|R|S needs women
Erm, did we ever* have girls on here? Even when this place was popular?
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*Aside from a couple of sporadic one post wonders over the course of about 5 years.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ July 29, 2007 03:05 PM: Message edited by: Generic Skinhead ]</font>
They've obviously all gone to work in continuity, wardrobe or line producers. They prefer to use the phone than internet forums ....
Ok, you two need to get different pictures because those last 3 posts were REALLY difficult to follow.
We had Spunkey around here for a while and that Brenda girl (I think) who left to raise money for her 35mm film (I wonder if she decided to go video yet?). I think she had a few of the 40 million dollars she'll need to make a decent film.
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And don't steal mine, please.
you wish is my comm.... wait, no it damn well isn't!
Now THAT'S better.
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it's amazing what plucking eyebrows will do for a man.
Quick! Everyone change their pictures to hot girls...then this place will be popular again...
hooyah it will be a pervert paradise
Trust Miker to take it to the absolute limit...
In fairness man...
working on an "up to two minute" short/presentation to enter into a comp.
I'm doing some research/exploratory work for something that may or may not be on tv in the next 20 years.
Plus doing my own writing and stuff.
Also trying to find no-budget directors and producers to work with that don't think they're also writers.
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It's not going well.
I know my limits. I aint a writer. But you have to expect changes by the time a shooting script is finalised and the entire story is changed to take place in your parents garage on a Sunday evening before tea. Those Orange ads are funny for a reason - many a true word has been said in jest!
producer + director + almost anyone else above the line = story editor
writer = below the line
sad but true - unless you're self-funding in which case you become executive producer above the line ergo story editor
I can live with the idea of changes to the script. That's part of the process and I'm not "in love" with the stuff I write for other people. If there wasn't a need for 8 or 12 drafts or input from the producer and director then trust me, I wouldn't bother doing them. I'd just turn in the draft I'm happy with and tell them to take it or leave it. But what I do get bored with is people who don't understand story or structure or how setups and payoffs work telling me that "We should put this here because we need to show this" when I know better. Unfortunately this is >99% of the "above the line" staff that I've met.
You don't tell editors how to edit, you don't tell the sound director how to have a shot boomed or how to do the mix-down. So don't tell writers how to write. I don't tell directors how to direct the script, I just tell them "We're going to need A and B here and here or C isn't going to make the slightest bit of sense and the actors will get pissed off with you."
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tick...tick...tick...
If Miker were to take it to the limit I would expect to see a helluvalot more than that...
Good Luck
Back on topic....
What have people been working on in the last two/three weeks??
I just wrapped on another HD short. It looks pretty good. The director is more happy with it than I am. Should've shot film. We did some cool remakes of Goya painting which was fun.
Good Luck
I've been re-writing a script that my mate wrote last year, that she'll produce and I'll direct, potentially in the next month or two.
Filming lots of agricultural events and equipment as well as finally getting cracking on a feature script which I have hanging around for over a year now. Finally feel confident enough to tackle it.
Bogged down in rewrites for a script I doubt will progress. Hey ho.
planning at the moment, dont know what but scanning the streets and surrounding areas of leeds and hope to kick somethign off soon,