We need to do another short film.
I haven’t gotten to do any filming since I’ve been up here in Crestview, and it’s been making me antsy. We definitely need to film something. I just didn’t know what until this past weekend.
I was talking with The Tim, and he mentioned us needing to film “the original short script, that first one, not the new one.” He’s referring to revision 1 of Addict, a thirty-ish page nightmare of choppy dialogue and scenes that don’t quite link up. When he said that, I figured, why not shoot it? It’s good practice, the script wasn’t that bad, and it has a built-in audience (of one.) The only thing I’d need to do is get my hands on a copy of the script while I’m up here, polish it, and I might be able to shoot a few of the scenes on my handheld camera before I leave. The rest can be shot when I get back down to West Palm Beach, if I can sucker convince my illustrious roommate and some other members of the b-i crew to help out.
This isn’t going to be a project that I spend a lot of time on. I’m thinking maybe one day a week at the most for shooting, three to four days of shooting at the most, and we should have it in the can (as it were.) Of course, things never really work out like that, but it’s a nice thought to have. Plus, it’s a longer script at thirty pages, which gives us experience trying to manage the continuity and schedule of a script that long.
The only problem I forsee is locations, but I think we can guerilla that without much of a problem. Screw permission; it’s easier to ask forgiveness.
Now that I think about it, maybe it’d be easier to just rewrite the script instead of digging up revision one and polishing it. I know the whole story, and that script already went through four revisions before being thrown away and completely reworked.
Let’s think back to some of the rave reviews the original draft of the script received:
“No character development”
“Completely dry drama”
“No clear genre; why am I watching this movie?”
“Flows like a documentary”
People who know me and know my editing style might say, hey Marc, no offense, but everything you make flows like a documentary. I think maybe I’m incapable of assembling something that’s fun to watch. My style sucks. Ugh. I wish I was better at editing. Will I get better with practice? Maybe. Who knows. I hope so. Maybe it won’t matter!
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Sounds fun, brief me on the screenplay when you get a chance!
Do the short.. it is the thing to do… especially when there is not much else to do.