Lots of work still to be done, but we have now technically written a movie in a weekend! ...Let the revisions begin!
Category: comedy
Break!
We left our apartment today! Hooray for us.
Update!
Sort of....
Plugging away
Kind of literally, plugging away. We're just plugging in dialogue to our pretty comprehensive outline. This portion is a little bit one sided. We talk through each scene, and then Forrest actually does the typing. I chime in after he is done with the scene, polishing and suggesting other dialogue. The characters are really starting … Continue reading Plugging away
Day Three!
Good morning! We awake and out of bed and upright and we have coffee and we're gonna write a movie.
End of Day 2
We're calling it a night. We didn't get as far as we'd planned on the draft -- we're halfway through Act One rather than Act Two, so we've got 12 pages instead of 50-odd. But what can you do? We're pleased with what we do have, and reasonably confident that the pace will pick up … Continue reading End of Day 2
Sluglined Treatment
Should anyone be curious, here's our treatment broken up with sluglines.... Off the Record Sluglined Treatment
Sluglines
Into the weeds, dear followers - We are now going through our outline to add sluglines before we dive into actually writing action and dialogue. This is a technique that I use, and I'm not sure where I pilfered it from, but it's great! I would super recommend it. Basically it turns the outline/treatment, which … Continue reading Sluglines
Dinner thoughts
Act Three!
A little behind schedule, but not too bad! Off to dinner, jumping back in at 8 instead of 7:30.... In blackness we hear the chugging of the train. We come back up on the two of them the following morning, huddled together for warmth. They wake up. They’re tired and freezing and hungry and desperately … Continue reading Act Three!
Movie in a Weekend 