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Ha, thanks! Trust me they get much better!

Hey everyone, this new Youtube channel is an important part of my plan to develop a limited series for tv. It's a platform where creatives and professionals like us can meet, discuss tv and film, and fine-tune our material. The bonus over time and with various collaborations is of course...

Here's a suggestion: What you've tried above is an opus. It's a complete work as if you're an advanced and seasoned storyteller, but it's mostly a string of cuts. If you're trying to learn the art of editing, start with the fundamentals, the building blocks. 1) Make a viewer cry 2) Make a...

If the hotel is big enough to have a nice room, it probably has a one-man cherry picker for changing light bulbs. Get into it with the widest lens you can borrow. Now crane down while tilting up to get a vertical arc of the fully lit and fogged stage.

Can you describe the model to me for how a viral short film makes money? Short of monetizing on youtube I don’t understand it.

Good points, one of the shortcomings of my perspective is that everything I do is calibrated to the development of a project that will have commercial viability and a chance to achieve distribution. From time to time I’ll need to be reminded that wasn’t the point.

Had to think about this for a bit. It's a good exercise in finding the right tone to move a story forward. My thoughts: 1) You describe it as "extreme amounts of drama." I think drama is not the right word because really what we're seeing is trauma. For it to be drama we would need as viewers...

Okay, during quarantine I wanted to go through the exercise of doing every job myself, writing, directing, shooting, lighting, editing, etc. (except for my brother who did the music.) It was a good exercise in being forced to deal with your own decisions and I highly recommend doing it. Not to...

I think the father's life is too big. It's sucking all the air out of the room for this kid with a condition. Make the condition (or the love interest) the A story, pick your B, then scale the rest of it to support, not upstage. As written I want to hear more about dad. Dude sounds like a badass.

We know there's a difference between a story compellingly told, and a story laid out like a blueprint for the sake of production. The jeopardy here is that in the early stages of your shop phase, who's assigned to read your script may well determine whether you struck the wrong tone: Write a...

I saw this exact same speech on another forum, word for word. And I just can't follow it. What is the plan exactly? I don't quite understand the premise that there is some self driven movie force out there that somehow isn't being managed well. That's not how this works. How it works is that we...

Hahaha. How about go dark. The last painting doesn't sell at all and you end the film in her room, his hand holding hers under a single light bulb as she breathes her last breath. No money for the surgery. Can you make it even fresher by moving off the well travelled paths? Instead of the often...

Hi Sfoster, just getting my bearings here on the forum so I thought I'd speak up. It's interesting that you pose the question in terms of "how long" the movie is. I understand the context here and why you stated it as such, but maybe the answer lies in posing the question in a different way...

sfoster, I agree that classical westerns, and to an extent the revisionists as well are best left for briefly visiting some of the iconic moments of the old days, but the pace and sensibilities sometimes just don't hold up for us 2020ers. But many modern westerns, and especially the...

Hello All, Looking forward to meeting some of you. Here's an excessively specific describer of why I've joined. Bio at the bottom, thanks! Through the use of a Youtube channel, research, screenwriting, shooting shorts, networking with you and exploiting relationships from my previous life in...