'Cause one's not enough and bigger is better, especially when you're talking about a cast. Also, wordpress won't let us put the apostrophe the right way round on "'cause".... But it did that time.
Tag: screenwriting
Characters
So. We're in Prohibition Era America. Flappers, poets, bootleggers, newspapermen. Good times. Next up we need some characters, both lead and supporting. So naturally we made a list and we're gonna pull some names out of the hat (cup). For lead, of which we'll pick one: Flapper Adventurer/pilot Writer/artist Movie director For supporting, of which we'll pick four: Working man … Continue reading Characters
Onward and Upward
The first step is to pull a specific period out of a hat. Our choices are Medieval 18th Century Venice Prohibition Era WWII These, we feel, give us strong settings, strong stock characters, and lots of latitude to play. We've still got the fundamental problem of not having, you know, a story -- but one … Continue reading Onward and Upward
Our first oops….
So we pulled "Period Comedy" out of the hat (or cup, to be technical about it). ("Period" in, historical period, not l'origine du monde.) This revelation was followed immediately by a rather shocked silence and some bumbling, inelegantly captured on video. Barely out of the gate and we've already hit a snag. What exactly is a period … Continue reading Our first oops….
It begins!
So we pulled a genre! It's a doozy. More on the ramifications in a minute.
Schedule
DIY Movie in a Weekend
We’re pretty confident we haven’t set ourselves up for failure. We are also pretty confident we won’t be sad to pull any of these at 6pm on the 10th.
The Great Experiment
On Friday at 6pm, we're going to pick a genre out of a hat.
Movie in a Weekend 