Movies205's Theatre- Variuos Video Works and Scripts...

[Julez]

The sci-fi one was written, shot, and edited in 48 hours.

Oh...Well that makes sense then.

 

[Movies205]

Out of curiosity Julez, what was your previous Hype name...

 

[Movies205]

Just watched the Sci Fi one, and I gotta say it's a step back from the western, the dialogue is sorta laughable, and that guy who plays the french dude needs to step his game up.
The western >>> the Sci Fi one.

Heh, to each his own. I don't know I dig my Sci-Fi, I mean it's a dream, it suppose to have a sense of ridiculousness to it, it's guy waking up and someone telling him to kill someone while the western is simply people shooting each other. I don't have amazing actors nor do I have expensive equipment, my films budgets don't exist, I never spend anything on them, and I use cameras people use to make there home videos for, it simply all I have to work with at the moment, but of course that's really no excuse. But none the less, the sci-fi is more of a progression, silent films are the easiest to make... But with all that said I wish more time was availiable when writing the sci-fi but all that could be afforded was a late-friday night... But I've spent enough time defending my videos...

 

[JLBats]

Hey, Movies, are you working on anything right now?

 

[Movies205]

I been pouring my soul into my first feature length script this summer, I've finish the first draft, and I'm on the second now. And I think my next video project might be a trailer for that.

-I'm always working on something, I kid you not

 

[JLBats]

I'll probably post the trailer for my movie once I have it edited... which probably won't be until next spring.

What is the script about?

 

[Movies205]

It's one of those things I'm going keep on the downlow till it's done... ****ed up **** though, it's a horror/thriller movie.

 

[JLBats]

Ah. I'm doing a really low brow zombie movie on the side. Well... I guess by low brow I mean "overtly high concept".

 

[Movies205]

Cool... To Julez, I've stop making the Time Traveler, I might post up the three episodes I filmed and edited and then post up the entire 50-60 page script for it. Lately been focusing on my writing and my previous work is really unfocused and lacked displine in the writing so it's good ideas but the execution in the writing was poor, and secondly I did it during highschool, highschool over I want start over and work on new stuff.

 

[JLBats]

I've found that most of the stuff I did early on was utter **** in terms of structure and dialogue. But the ideas are generally awesome, sometimes better than what I can come up with now, which I find weird.

 

[Movies205]

I started doing the video thing sometime in the 7th grade, the writing thing sometime freshman year, got serious junior year with video, and now I'm getting serious with writing. Part of it has to do with everything written before the script I'm writing now, was simply me just writing with no rhyme or reason, just whatever flowed from my head, I wrote down on the page... I picked up a book on scriptwriting, completely liberated me and showed me the principles and things needed to write well.

 

[JLBats]

I've read pretty much every book on screenwriting there is. I don't consider them liberating. They're helpful for turning ideas into something useful and actually structuring something out of abstract ideas, but I've found they stress the writing as a rule based system a tad more than is necessary. Every once in a while they say something like "The paradigm is only a guide, you don't have to stick to it rigidly", but this hardly makes up for it.

 

[Movies205]

I've read pretty much every book on screenwriting there is. I don't consider them liberating. They're helpful for turning ideas into something useful and actually structuring something out of abstract ideas, but I've found they stress the writing as a rule based system a tad more than is necessary. Every once in a while they say something like "The paradigm is only a guide, you don't have to stick to it rigidly", but this hardly makes up for it.

I'm a firm believer in learning priniciples first before bending rules... But the book I'm talking about is "Story" by Robert McKee, great book, I love all the rules and structures, I think it's so cool, one of my favorite things now is breaking down one of my scenes and anaylsing*SP it. But in the end it really comes down to talent, and so if I don't have it, I'll end up flipping burgers at MickeyDs.

 

[JLBats]

I haven't had a chance to read much of McKee yet, what I've seen seems a little... complex for my tastes. Perhaps I'm wrong.

 

[JLBats]

Also, he scares the utter **** out of me.

 

[Julez]

I didn't mean to offend you Movies, cuz I liked your films, and looking back on the Sci Fi one, it was good for the amount of time you put into it.
I totally understand how it is with a zero budget and lack of resources, so I feel your pain lol.
What grade in high school are you? I'm going to be a senior this year, and I too am really serious about film. (http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2732248 heres the film I just finished for a 5 min competition...)...
Do you plan on going to film school or just hitting the indie scene?

 

[Movies205]

Your film's not wokring for me

I just finished highschool, I'm off to college next year where I'm studying for a degree in english with a focus on creative writing. And after that who knows. I figure I'd rather focus on my writing first and then work on video but I'll take one day at a time.

 

[Julez]

Damn that sucks (it doesn't work for you.)