Are you active in the filmmaking industry or have aspirations to be?

[CGHulk]

Does film school mean $150, 000 in student loans?

In which case, it ain't worth it?

And a one in a million make it!

 

[Herolee10]

I definitely aspire to become a writer and eventually into a director. I'm currently working on a screenplay and I hope to have it done within a year from now so that I can start pitching it and getting an agent for myself as well

 

[Matt Mortem]

I'm a writer/director/jack-of-all trades. I shot three shorts this year so far, one of which is playing at the Phoenix Comic-Con Film Festival. I'm doing some commercial work this summer (and hopefully ongoing...gotta pay the bills). Also got a documentary in pre-production too.

 

[Thundarr]

Man, you just ruined the twist to your own story!!! :0

Well it's not exactly MY story. Like I said in my first post on this thread, it's based on the short story "The Sentry".

The short story is told from the POV of a soldier on sentry duty. It's pretty much his internal monologue about the war, the brutality of the invading aliens, their having attacked from out of nowhere, their disinterest in peace talks, etc. Then an enemy breaches the perimeter and the sentry shoots him dead. Then he describes what the alien looks like, and he's describing a human.

My plan is to take that basic concept and expand on it, stretching it out into a feature length movie.

 

[Thundarr]

I'm also almost certain this was a movie at one point.

Anyhow, slightly on the topic. I don't have aspirations to be in filmmaking even though I have ideas for stories for films. I'd have to actually write them into an acceptable format and work out the broad details to even pretend there was a chance they would get someone's attention.

If it ever was, it was so mangled by the studios that it no longer resembled the source material. The only two movies I can think of that are anything like The Sentry are Avatar and Enemy Mine. However, neither make the humans into villains as a "surprise twist". If I make my own version, I intend to stick closer to the source material.