The Coli's Screenwriting/Filmmaking Thread [Share tips, etc]
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Try and raise money breh, making a feature is going to take up most of your time, don't eat up your own finances as well. You in LA? Get on your network grind.
How many episodes of a tv show do you need before you can take it to somebody
...I only got 4.
...I only got 4.How many episodes of a tv show do you need before you can take it to somebody
You only need one, sometimes not even that if you have a strong pitch. You should have a series bible though, basically an overview of the show detaling /characters/plotlines over the seasons etc. Here's an example from Battlestar Galatica: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.harvar...smgr/hwp-pdfs/battlestar_galactica_series.pdf
How many episodes of a tv show do you need before you can take it to somebody
you need only a pilot and then a synopsis of what will happen from week to week
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Not a good idea at all. Take it to film festivals and if it's good they will come calling.
that series bible long as hell. good to know I don't need a full season. Im just worried I might run out of ideas and then its wack after the first bunch of episodes,im pleased with the first 4 I wrote. Then I kinda got writers block,i think I need to be out here getting into ignorant shyt to keep my creative juices flowing
Have your destiny decided by white taste makers, brehs
Not a good idea at all. Take it to film festivals and if it's good they will come calling.
StraxStrax
I'm selling these fine leather jackets
Stop this racist nonsense, film festivals don't care about this kinda stuff.
Last movie to win the Grand Jury Prize @ Sundance was about a killing of a young black man, directed and written by a black man and produced by a black man.
If you have a good movie/script 99% of people don't care about your race. So unless you are a total jerk in person you should be able to sell your scripts if they are good.
StraxStrax
I'm selling these fine leather jackets
Damn
My short doc got so much love at the premiere today, got the most applause and the crowd laughed during the whole movie
I promise I won't leave you guys hanging when I move to Hollywood
My short doc got so much love at the premiere today, got the most applause and the crowd laughed during the whole movie
I promise I won't leave you guys hanging when I move to Hollywood
theoretic
All Star
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932907343/ref=oh_details_o09_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1
i bought these two a few years ago.
dunno why the links didn't show up in the post, but thanks for the link...much appreciated
Captain Crunch
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Damn
My short doc got so much love at the premiere today, got the most applause and the crowd laughed during the whole movie
I promise I won't leave you guys hanging when I move to Hollywood
Where can we watch the short?
StraxStrax
I'm selling these fine leather jackets
Where can we watch the short?
I'm gonna to send it to some film festivals so it won't be online anytime soon I think.
StraxStrax
I'm selling these fine leather jackets
I'm so sad you guys 
Last year a DP asked me to write the script for his graduation movie and wanted to make a drama about brothers bonding while traveling. So I wrote a story about two half-brothers who haven't talked to eachother in 4-5 years but have to go on a long car trip because their father just died. It's just a basic little story about meaning of families, sacrifice and redemption. Everybody loved it, a director/writer that won at Cannes this year said he almost cried just by reading the script. So the DP asks me to direct it but I say no because I want to make a comedy and I wanted to see my script on screen without being involved with the filming and post-production.
It was butchered
The locations didn't chance but this is a dialouge heavy movie and only lines I wrote that made it in are the first and last. I had a bar scene (they stopped in a small town because of bad weather) where they talked about life and family memories and are envious about the life that the other on lives. That got replaced by a conversation about sucking horse dikk while drunk and throwing up on a girl while she give's you a blowjob.
Last year a DP asked me to write the script for his graduation movie and wanted to make a drama about brothers bonding while traveling. So I wrote a story about two half-brothers who haven't talked to eachother in 4-5 years but have to go on a long car trip because their father just died. It's just a basic little story about meaning of families, sacrifice and redemption. Everybody loved it, a director/writer that won at Cannes this year said he almost cried just by reading the script. So the DP asks me to direct it but I say no because I want to make a comedy and I wanted to see my script on screen without being involved with the filming and post-production.
It was butchered
The locations didn't chance but this is a dialouge heavy movie and only lines I wrote that made it in are the first and last. I had a bar scene (they stopped in a small town because of bad weather) where they talked about life and family memories and are envious about the life that the other on lives. That got replaced by a conversation about sucking horse dikk while drunk and throwing up on a girl while she give's you a blowjob.
