Okay thanks. I could produce another script if I get to direct it to, since I wanted to get into directing. Or maybe I could produce it only and then get into directing later on, if that's better.
As for my attempts at writing a short, I am just bad at coming with an idea that is only a couple of minutes. In my attempts before I just didn't have enough page time to finish an idea cause every idea I have almost, goes over a few minutes.
This is why I wanted to take scenes from a feature I wrote and just shoot a scene on it's own, but when I try to put a scene on it's own, it's not interesting, to other people, cause the scene only works as part of a complete story, rather than taken out of the story, on it's own.
As for the Saskatchewan Filmmakers group on facebook, most of the people on there do not live in my city. I could travel to make a movie I suppose but I would feel awkward about asking them to let me stay at their place, since they are strangers and all.
As for asking people to help me that I have worked with before, I do not have any lodgings for them here, cause my place is kind of a dump and I don't live alone and have any say on that. I am just trying to save as much money as possible for a feature, so this is why I haven't spent a lot on shorts lately, such as paying for hotels for cast and crew, cause I would rather do it for a feature in the future.
I posted some adds willing to direct other people's short film scripts for a change, cause maybe that will improve my odds, rather than relying on my own writing. We'll see.
The reason why I am anxious to make a feature is because years ago, I set a goal, that if I would make my first feature by 2015. This hasn't happened yet since I have hardly been able to make shorts in the mean time. I feel confident that I could do a feature, since I have worked under directors and watched how they work. I also know a cinematographer who is much more experienced than me, and is willing to work if I pay his rates and all, and he taught me a lot about how directors work as well. He is from another city though, and would have to pay for his lodgings, so I can use him, if he thinks the script is worth his while.
Also, is shooting a trailer really that complicated? I helped a guy shoot his trailer for feature, which he made after, and the trailer was able to be shot all in one weekend, and it took about 20 hours to shoot total.
It would really help and be simple though, to just shoot one scene from a script for practive, in one location, with just a couple of people. But no actors and crew want do to that. When I advertised for cast and crew for my first short film, I got a lot more responses. I think that by making it a 15 minute long story, people were more interested. They don't want to shoot one scene from a script, they want a whole story. Could that be it?
I also wanted to go to film school a couple of years ago, but the person who ran the school talked me out of it. Mainly I wanted to learn post production and learn a lot of the technology.. but the school doesn't really teach much of the technology itself, and I told the person at the school that I wanted to learn the technology as well, and he said that maybe I shouldn't go to the school then cause it sounds like it might not be right for me, if that's the case. The school only teaches how to make docementary type short films as well, but doesn't seem to do any with a fiction narrative that would mean working with actors. Although I know for sure the final projects can be cause I did see some of them at a film festival. But they weren't that good, not to be mean or anything... but it made me think I shouldn't go, if the film quality of the projects was poor.
But now I am having second thoughts maybe. Do you think that this school course is worth the money at all, since some people in the industry say that a lot of film schools are not that good?
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