The Coli's Screenwriting/Filmmaking Thread [Share tips, etc]

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This thread is

My screenwriting/filmmaking brehs.

I'd share my 2014 Directing reel but then you guys would know my true identity


In the midst of completing my first feature length now. 16 pages in, I've set a goal for myself, 30 pages by Monday at least. I'll keep updating, wanna have this finished by my mid-April.

 

[Conz]

this is gonna sound stupid, but don't set goals. just write. no need to stress yourself out for no reason. also, without a constriction, you may end up writing more. ... again though, im a fukkin nutjob headcase so maybe don't listen to me.

 

[pete clemenza]

Get a GH4 breh, it may cost you around $3k to fully kit it out. But it's worth it, 4k quality, its pretty much a Dslr too.

Thanks I'll check this camera out as well. Not really trippin' off 4K though.. 1080p will do just fine for now

 

[TheGodling]

I really should start writing soon. This week things finally clicked together for a movie I've been plotting in the back of my head for close to four years now. But this week I also came up with one of the best conceptual ideas I've had all year, but I'm not sure whether to go tv show or movie with it. The concept feels more like something better suited as a tv show, but it needs a lot of work to give the concept any real longevity.

And on top of that I've somehow really got into brainstorming comedy sketches that parody/satirize modern day commercials and reality tv. Like a web show that plays out like zapping from channel to channel (I know this has been done before) with it just being sketches that could be ten seconds long or go for five minutes.

 

[J-Nice]

Anyone here located in the Greater Philadelphia area?

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

It is here!



Our pilot starts at 7:30, but if you wanna watch the entire got'dang go right on ahead, it's really well produced.

@Milk N Cookies @Billy Costigan @illadope @Pifferry @Conz

Would love to hear what you fellers think of it.

 

[illadope]

It is here!



Our pilot starts at 7:30, but if you wanna watch the entire got'dang go right on ahead, it's really well produced.

@Milk N Cookies @Billy Costigan @illadope @Pifferry @Conz

Would love to hear what you fellers think of it.

is this?

 

[Milk N Cookies]

It is here!



Our pilot starts at 7:30, but if you wanna watch the entire got'dang go right on ahead, it's really well produced.

@Milk N Cookies @Billy Costigan @illadope @Pifferry @Conz

Would love to hear what you fellers think of it.

Thanks for the tag! Loved the intro can't wait to see more.

 

[TdashDUB]

this is gonna sound stupid, but don't set goals. just write. no need to stress yourself out for no reason. also, without a constriction, you may end up writing more. ... again though, im a fukkin nutjob headcase so maybe don't listen to me.

THIS. So much this.

Goes back to setting too high of a standard for first drafts. No expectations, just write. Makes life much easier.

 

[StraxStrax]

My music video going online tomorrow, in less then 12 hours

 

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My music video going online tomorrow, in less then 12 hours

Casting for my next music video next week!


Congrats to you!

 

[StraxStrax]

Peep my showreel brehs

 

[steadyrighteous]

Peep my showreel brehs

I know some of that was the music video, what was the rest? A short film, or a series of things you thought would look good in a showreel?

 

[Conz]

That looks like good camerawork to me, but I honestly don't know. I don't have a technical bone in my body and don't have any desire to learn the ins and outs of anything other than writing. Good job either way.

I finished one of my famous "hand edits" last night. Jesus Christ. 1st draft clocked in at a brisk 102 pages, which is perfect... i went through every page with a pencil and highlighter... there is more pencil and highlighter on these 102 pages than printer ink... considerably more. The whole transition from 2nd to 3rd act is hot dogshyt, and in order to even make the new outline of that segment work, I have to go back and lay a ton of seeds. Gonna be a bytch to retain that page count, I don't want to exceed 105 pages.

So once that's done, I'll finally allow a few close confidants to read it and tell me "I don't know why you were so worried about the 3rd act, the first 2 sucked my balls just as much..." in kinder terms of course.

 

[StraxStrax]

I know some of that was the music video, what was the rest? A short film, or a series of things you thought would look good in a showreel?

Three short films, two music videos and one short doc