seeking Question for Filmmakers

[directorik]

I'm still unsure it's worth the effort. A table read, video with me, might be a better choice. Thoughts?

It might be worth the effort to have a better quality video to post
on your website. Just you reading the script is also an interesting
idea. I know things have changed since I started making low-budget
movies so anything you can do to attract attention can't hurt.

However, for me, the script is still the only thing that interests me.
Everything else is just noise. I wonder if too many other things would
distract from the script.

 

[Lily Blaze]

if you can make a video good enough to pique my interest, you should apply that same talent and make the short film yourself.
We're talking about a 5 page script here? I think people would rather just read the script for themselves and form their own opinion.

I'm stating to get the impression none of you realize I'm not a filmmaker. I'd like to work with filmmakers, but I'm a creative. I don't do anything else.

Here's my website.

https://www.lilyblaze.art/

 

[sfoster]

I'm stating to get the impression none of you realize I'm not a filmmaker. I'd like to work with filmmakers, but I'm a creative. I don't do anything else.

Here's my website.

https://www.lilyblaze.art/

So a friend made that video for you?
You're right I must be confused, I thought this was a thread about you making a video or not to help market your script.

 

[Lily Blaze]

So a friend made that video for you?
You're right I must be confused, I thought this was a thread about you making a video or not to help market your script.

Nah, I quickly threw that video preview together. I just wondered if I made little videos for my short scripts, if it would help to start conversations with filmmakers. Marketing is for finished products.

 

[sfoster]

I just wondered if I made little videos for my short scripts, if it would help to start conversations with filmmakers.

Right - if you can make a "little video" good enough to pique my interest, you should apply that same talent and make the short film yourself.
if you cannot make a video good enough to pique any interest, then don't waste your time making it.

You see? its a catch 22

 

[Lily Blaze]

Right - if you can make a "little video" good enough to pique my interest, you should apply that same talent and make the short film yourself.
if you cannot make a video good enough to pique any interest, then don't waste your time making it.

You see? its a catch 22

Look, I''m trying to remain civil here. So I'll spell it out, and avoid any assumptions. If that still doesn't work, well, I tried.

I am not a filmmaker. I will never be a filmmaker. Peroid.

I am a creative. I've been a visual artist for 46 years. A pro graphic designer for 28 years. Am I applying the same ""talent" to a rough preview video? No, am I not. I don't waste time. I find what works, and what doesn't work. I took the suggestion (see above) of use AI, but I was hesitant. In retrospect, I should have trusted my instinct.

Oh, and by the way, if you want to see my full talent, I charge a minimum of $25 an hour.

 

[sfoster]

I understand the AI video you posted doesn't represent you or the quality of your work, don't sweat it.

Here is my problem

If (I) made short videos

I am not a filmmaker. I will never be a filmmaker.

These statements are logically incompatible to me.
If you make short videos then you will become a filmmaker.

It sounds like you've answered your own question.
Since you will never be a filmmaker, you will never make short little videos for your screenplays, thread question solved.

It sounded like you're getting frustrated, that's not my intention.
I don't want to come off antagonistic, I actually have a 5 page script of my own - The Saddest Painting - and I'm too busy writing a novel to produce my short script. I can empathsize with your situation exactly.

I'd like to have my short script turn into a movie too, and I think AI is a good solution for visuals! Just not AI voice.
Nobody loves listening to soulless AI dialogue, it's not gonna hook audiences the way a talented actor can. People do love looking at SOME AI visuals though.

To advertise the 5 page script, the hardest part is finding the voice actors... once you have that... 15 seconds or 5 minutes... you're paying the actors for the whole days wage.

One day I'm going to use actors for real voice and make the 5 page short with AI animation - it could be done in one weekend.

Afterward if someone wants to remake my film in live action that would be awesome.
Films get remade all the time. Maybe that will happen. Maybe the real actors and cool AI visuals will connect with people, who knows.

AI shorts are uncharted territory.

I haven't done it yet since AI video is evolving so rapidly, it's probably good enough visually now tbh... maybe one day Nate North and I will make The Saddest Painting into a short. He's been neck deep in the AI video stuff for years.

 

[Lily Blaze]

Ah, so you're not pissed off at me. You're pissed off at AI. Well, frankly I didn't enjoy using it. Extremely limiting creatively. If I do anything else, it won't be with AI.

 

[sfoster]

Ah, so you're not pissed off at me. You're pissed off at AI. Well, frankly I didn't enjoy using it. Extremely limiting creatively. If I do anything else, it won't be with AI.

I'm not angry! Is it my pitbull avatar cause I was thinking for a couple weeks now that it's time for a change haha.