Filmmaking Q & A

[Lunar_Wolf]

Making a film? Need questions answered? Well, ask a question here, and hopefully someone will reply with the answer.

I'll begin with a question.

I'm starting film school next year and I got to start working on my portfolio now. I just finished a short film script, but it's a bit vulgar. I'm wondering if the teachers who see this and read the script from my portfolio, think ''**** this guy, this is just sad, it's not artsy fartsy. It's doesn't make me think, pick someone else to join this course''. Can this happen, even if the script and film is good?

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I don't know much, but I don't think they can make you change it. I mean unless it is really tasteless and such.

 

[War Party]

Making a film? Need questions answered? Well, ask a question here, and hopefully someone will reply with the answer.

I'll begin with a question.

I'm starting film school next year and I got to start working on my portfolio now. I just finished a short film script, but it's a bit vulgar. I'm wondering if the teachers who see this and read the script from my portfolio, think ''**** this guy, this is just sad, it's not artsy fartsy. It's doesn't make me think, pick someone else to join this course''. Can this happen, even if the script and film is good?

Make whatever the hell you want man. It's film school. There is no censorship to what you make, unless it's porn. They shouldn't judge you for making a vulgar movie, you'll be fine. I made a short film at school that was tremendously violent and I won an award for it. Don't censor yourself because you're worried what others may think.

 

[War Party]

And just to add, this other guy's movie literally had the word cock said about sixty times. No lie.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Make whatever the hell you want man. It's film school. There is no censorship to what you make, unless it's porn. They shouldn't judge you for making a vulgar movie, you'll be fine. I made a short film at school that was tremendously violent and I won an award for it. Don't censor yourself because you're worried what others may think.

Thanks for the advice, dude. I was kinda getting worried about it today, because I'm almost finished the script and I was having second thoughts and didn't want to go through the hassle of coming up with something else.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I think you only might get in trouble or looked down if you say made a comedy about the Holocaust or even 9/11. But again who really would? You have to be seriously screwed up to do so.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Thanks for the advice, dude. I was kinda getting worried about it today, because I'm almost finished the script and I was having second thoughts and didn't want to go through the hassle of coming up with something else.

Is that the one with the dead Hooker and the phone being in her butt?

 

[War Party]

I think you only might get in trouble or looked down if you say made a comedy about the Holocaust or even 9/11. But again who really would? You have to be seriously screwed up to do so.

Yeah, well I wouldn't expect anyone to do that. But he still shouldn't be worried about it. There's no one out there who should stop anyone from being creative.

 

[War Party]

Is that the one with the dead Hooker and the phone being in her butt?

Haha, that's awesome.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Is that the one with the dead Hooker and the phone being in her butt?

Yep.

When I describe the scene about the phone up her butt to my friends and family, they laugh, then they go ''ewwww''.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Yeah, well I wouldn't expect anyone to do that. But he still shouldn't be worried about it. There's no one out there who should stop anyone from being creative.

Neither am I. But I'm sure people know there are certain things you don't write about.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Yep.

When I describe the scene about the phone up her butt to my friends and family, they laugh, then they go ''ewwww''.

How does the phone get up there in the first place?

 

[Steel Thunder]

I did a three year degree in film, finished June 2008. It wasn't what most of us expected and I've since gone on to do a Masters Degree in engineering. However - my knowledge of film is pretty extensive and I've had some experience with scripts and screenplays aswell as shooting. Actually wrote and made my own Slasher film as part of the second year final project, everybody else wrote dramas lol.

 

[War Party]

But do we all agree that a phone up the butt is perfectly acceptable? Because I find it hilarious.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I'm sure it will be done in a comedy way and not actually showing said Phone up butt.

Good site here.
http://www.screenwritingexpo.com/

 

[War Party]

I did a three year degree in film, finished June 2008. It wasn't what most of us expected and I've since gone on to do a Masters Degree in engineering. However - my knowledge of film is pretty extensive and I've had some experience with scripts and screenplays aswell as shooting. Actually wrote and made my own Slasher film as part of the second year final project, everybody else wrote dramas lol.

Same thing happened with me. Too many people were making their movies because they wanted awards and most of it seemed tamed. And I'm sure that was half of the people's intent, but there were people who were genuinely making movies like that. You could tell who was who when watching them. But there were a few guys who just made awesome and fun movies though. I mean I can make a drama or a deep film if I wanted to, but those aren't the kinds of movies I want to make. I like to write outlandish stories and make twisted movies.

 

[War Party]

I'm sure it will be done in a comedy way and not actually showing said Phone up butt.

Good site here.
http://www.screenwritingexpo.com/

Like when Chelios shoves the shotgun up the guy's butt in Crank 2?

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

I did a three year degree in film, finished June 2008. It wasn't what most of us expected and I've since gone on to do a Masters Degree in engineering. However - my knowledge of film is pretty extensive and I've had some experience with scripts and screenplays aswell as shooting. Actually wrote and made my own Slasher film as part of the second year final project, everybody else wrote dramas lol.

That's awesome. I can't see myself doing dramas or anything like that. For my second short this year, I want to make a werewolf flick, but make it like The Wolf Man (1941), but gory as hell.

But do we all agree that a phone up the butt is perfectly acceptable? Because I find it hilarious.

I'm still thinking of a hilarious ring tone that goes off inside

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Same thing happened with me. Too many people were making their movies because they wanted awards and most of it seemed tamed. And I'm sure that was half of the people's intent, but there were people who were genuinely making movies like that. You could tell who was who when watching them. But there were a few guys who just made awesome and fun movies though. I mean I can make a drama or a deep film if I wanted to, but those aren't the kinds of movies I want to make. I like to write outlandish stories and make twisted movies.

To quote Eli Roth from his Cabin Fever commentary (even if you don't like him) He made a good point about making the type of films you want to see. And to just not make films to win awards or something you wouldn't watch yourself.

He said he talked to some guy he went to film school with about making a documentary about the homeless AIDS people of the world as one of your thesis projects. and he asked the guy why he did this, and he said he wouldn't watch something like that, but is just trying to win awards.

 

[War Party]

To quote Eli Roth from his Cabin Fever commentary (even if you don't like him) He made a good point about making the type of films you want to see. And to just not make films to win awards or something you wouldn't watch yourself.

He said he talked to some guy he went to film school with about making a documentary about the homeless AIDS people of the world as one of your thesis projects. and he asked the guy why he did this, and he said he wouldn't watch something like that, but is just trying to win awards.

This is why I like guys like Eli Roth. So what you will about his movies and what kind of person he his, the guy is having loads of fun and making the movies he wants. He don't give a **** what I or anyone thinks. There's plenty of filmmakers like that and those are the guys I look up to.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Yeah, I like him aswell and his take no ****, don't give a care attitude.

he just really loves films and likes to movies. whether its acting or directing.

I respect him as well aswell as a bunch of other guys like him.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

How does the phone get up there in the first place?

The hooker basically has sex with most people at the birthday party. No one is 100% sure if they did have sex with her or not because they were too drunk. The guy who discovers his phone inside her, started a big speech earlier on how he didn't sleep with her. Once he fishes the phone out, he discovers it's the same phone as he's, but it's not his phone. We don't know how the phone got up there, just that flighty, nasty things have been going on all night.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

The hooker basically has sex with most people at the birthday party. No one is 100% sure if they did have sex with her or not because they were too drunk. The guy who discovers his phone inside her, started a big speech earlier on how he didn't sleep with her. Once he fishes the phone out, he discovers it's the same phone as he's, but it's not his phone. We don't know how the phone got up there, just that flighty, nasty things have been going on all night.

So it's alot like The Hangover then and trying to find out how that stuff happen?

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

So it's alot like The Hangover then and trying to find out how that stuff happen?

No. No one is finding out who slept with her. The start pretty much covers that two of the main 4 guys did sleep with her. The 3rd guy doesn't know and the last guy is head of his businesses and doesn't want this getting out. When it comes to his job he hold himself a high Prestige. He just got so drunk that he didn't care what was happening at the party at the time. It's moreless the first time he cut loose. The whole story is burying the dead body, but the mishaps along the way.

 

[War Party]

The hooker basically has sex with most people at the birthday party. No one is 100% sure if they did have sex with her or not because they were too drunk. The guy who discovers his phone inside her, started a big speech earlier on how he didn't sleep with her. Once he fishes the phone out, he discovers it's the same phone as he's, but it's not his phone. We don't know how the phone got up there, just that flighty, nasty things have been going on all night.

Haha, this I got to see.