Movies are what you make of them. Are you looking for entertainment to fill a dreary February afternoon, or are you looking for something that’s going to challenge you and make you at least consider things in a different way. Sometimes there’s more than meets the eye. Click on ”collative learning” over there to the right and [...]
I switched from writing a script to just writing notes for “Ice Boat”. The reason is that I’ve been working with a guy named Don Jackson on “Dog Days”. I received a ton of notes from him and I wanted to take the time to carefully consider them before continuing on.
I crossed page 70 last night (Wednesday night) on “Ice Boat”. There gets to be a point in the writing where you’re not at the end — watching pages get tacked on — but somewhere in the middle or near the beginning, filling in things that must be in place to make the end pay off.
When I [...]
Stomping typos and fixing gramm1r are not ”rewrites”. Although (in the usual paradoxical fashion) they will absolutely kill you if your script is riddled with them. Lack of typos — in any variation — should be considered a ticket to entry. A typo free script at least gets you in the door — it doesn’t mean [...]
Set pieces. A wonderfully complicated ballet of characters and plot lines that intersect with things — big things — in some sort of fantastical way. So when Michael Bay says “Transformers will have 14 set pieces” (quotes are mine…) he means that there will be these action pieces where the robots will fight or run amok or in [...]
I haven’t done a true monster spec, yet. Sure — people as monsters, but not a ”rise from the primordial ooze” sort of monster. And when I’ve dipped towards the monsters, they’ve always been two-legged: a demon in “Beyond Good and Evil” and Pure Evil in “Blind Eye”.