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Old 12-29-2005, 09:44 PM
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Update on my next movie: there isn't one

Yeah, on the off chance any of you remember me mentioning the next movie I've been writing: it's on indefinate hiatus.
I sat down to write, and thought about how I had to get the script done so I could call places about filming locations, get prices, raise money, get the cast and crew there, keep them there, find out what is included with the rental of whatever building I rent out, build whatever furnature or props that aren't included, and a dozen other things, every single one of which would have to be done by me personally, with no steady income, and on top of school and working at home, and before the two people with whom I promised to make the movie graduate and go off to college in wherever-the-fuck. In short, I need to delegate these things, but nobody to whom I can delegate them. The last movie, I was fine doing it like this because I could make it with what I already had. But I'm trying to make a REAL movie (for lack of a better term), and I just don't have the time, money, resources, or energy to do half the things I need to do. So I've given up on the delusion that I'll be able to do this in the timeframe that I had wanted to do it.
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Old 12-30-2005, 01:03 AM
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The only thing that eventually limits you as a filmmaker is your imagination. You can get by without whatever you "need" if you put your mind to it. Think about it: you are telling a story you want to trick the viewer into believing. You might need to reach deeper into the bag of tricks sometimes to make it happen, but that rule never changes. PM me with some of the problem scenes so I can try to offer some solutions since I hate hearing "I give up".
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Old 12-30-2005, 04:37 PM
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I would be glad to help you out with whatever you need, ask and you shall receive. Check out this book called $30 film school there is a section on how to raise money/grants. Good book also !
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Old 12-30-2005, 08:03 PM
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The only thing that eventually limits you as a filmmaker is your imagination. You can get by without whatever you "need" if you put your mind to it. Think about it: you are telling a story you want to trick the viewer into believing. You might need to reach deeper into the bag of tricks sometimes to make it happen, but that rule never changes. PM me with some of the problem scenes so I can try to offer some solutions since I hate hearing "I give up".
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the whole thing takes place in a fast food restaurant. I've done 0 budget movies that were good (the last one I worked on, for example). Money is just part of the problem: there's time, too. This isn't going to be something I can get done filming in a week, and a week is probably all I'd have.
I'm not giving up, I'm facing reality. I COULD do the movie, but I'd like to not fail classes and I can't expect anybody to work on it when they're out at college. There's summer, but one of the main people will be going cross country during the summer.
Trust me, if there were any way I could get this done I would. I spent 6 months trying to get my last movie filmed, and that finally got done, I'd be more than willing to put the same effort into this movie and moreso, but I've got too much going on and not enough time to do all of it. And, as I said, I would have to do ALL of it.
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Old 12-31-2005, 01:36 AM
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'Eraserhead' took over 6 years to make.

I hate to sound like a shoe commercial, but just do it.
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Old 12-31-2005, 12:19 PM
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'Eraserhead' took over 6 years to make.

I hate to sound like a shoe commercial, but just do it.
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and if I had six years then I'd make the movie. But I've got until summer 2006, that's when one of the two people with whom I promised I'd do the movie will no longer be available, and her and the 2nd person will graduate and move who-knows-where to college, which would mean it'll be insanely difficult for me to get ahold of them in any sort of capacity that would be useful for the movie.
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Old 12-31-2005, 12:46 PM
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You should look for alternate solutions as hard as you're looking for those excuses...Clearly these peoples priorities have changed - they seem to have moved on, so, work out a way to do it without em, or dance with a rubber chicken like a chicken dancin' failure.
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Old 12-31-2005, 10:37 PM
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You should look for alternate solutions as hard as you're looking for those excuses...Clearly these peoples priorities have changed - they seem to have moved on, so, work out a way to do it without em, or dance with a rubber chicken like a chicken dancin' failure.
I'm not giving excuses and I'm not saying I'll never do the movie. I plan to continue making movies, and it makes no sense to have this script (since I plan on finishing it) and not do it. I'm more disheartened by the fact that I won't be able to do it with the people with whom I promised I would (one of them fricken wrote the one-act play with me, which is what I'm adapting into the screenplay) than anything. We'd talked about doing this movie together since before the play script was finished, and now in all likelihood that's not gonna work. But I'll still do the movie eventually. Hence: "indefinate hiatus"
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I see...my apologies, I didn't consider the overall situation. Must be rather dissapointing indeed.
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Old 01-01-2006, 10:26 PM
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There is always "later". I know. Keep at it. Worse comes to worse, you'll be better at doing it when the time comes. I'll paraphrase Kurosawa when getting his life time achievement award: "Film is always a learning experience and I think I'm finally starting to understand it." He died soon afterwards, but that's not the point LOL. If I knew half as much as I did when I started as I do now, I'd be much better at. Of course it bothers me now about how much I don't know that I will in another year or so. Bottom line: stick to it, make another movie int the mean time, learn, grow as a filmmaker and have a good time while doing it.
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