In almost all of my stuff, there's always some continuity error that we end up masking with improv. Clothes, accents, and weather that constantly changed became one of the key aesthetic features in "Six Twenty Five" (lets write a normal script and then f*** with it as much as possible), my first film.

Hi,

I was just reading your posts, and I must say that I wish I had the contacts that most of you people seem to have. I'm pretty much a lonely writer with no big bucks to actually make a feature. Currently though I am writing my first full length feature, titled "The Haunted." And I think having practically no budget has given me a lot of creativity when I write. Like for instance, I can't put in large special effects, but I can write a suspenseful scene where nothing is seen, only heard. I love that type of scene.

As for directing, well I for one wouldn't allow anyone to film something I wrote. I would want to direct it because I know how I want it to look. I know the feel of the story. Like I read above a few of you had problems where other people changed your work. No, not me, it's either me directing my own script, or it's nothing. Maybe I'm too stiff in my stance about it, but it's just how I feel as a writer.

Anyway, that's my two cents =0)

J.F.

http://hometown.aol.com/joecartoon131

Hi. I'm Ian. I plan to direct two shorts next year.

Tomorrow

The good, the bad, and the ugly days of a relationship coming to a close, played out to the harrowing tune of Tomorrow (Avril Lavigne)

Shadow & Bobcat

The tale of two disgraced Paranormal Investigators who take on a cas that backfires royally.

I would like to become a director one day as said in one of the other topics. I'm not following an education in movie stuff just yet. First my degree right? The reason why I wanna become a director one day is well I came up with this idea since I was 14. At first my brother showed also intrest in it but he backed up and letted my down as he always did. But also want to become one to make people listen to me since no one does here where I live. No one seems interested in what I try to reach. So if that's the only way to make people listen to me, I sure wanna try it. It's also the way the have it my way.

Go for it.

Just make them. Let everyone else flaunt over your work when you've finished it. Experience is key.

What do you mean "listen to you"?
It's not a soap box.

Unless you want to write your scripts as well.

Right!! Of course I write my own scripts. Experience is the key, I know. Besides a little writing experience, don't got any yet, I hope soon enough. It's not I wanna make big epics if I can reach the level of the average actionflicks, like Lethal Weapon, I think I've reached more then enough. I'm always in for a buddy cop film. Only one I didn't really like and that was Hollywood Homicide too much plotholes I guess. Too much unexplained things.

I'm still confused as to what you mean by make people listen to you.

Well maybe not really MAKING them listening to me, but they'll have to do it my way, the way it is written in the script.

Someone:
So, you're not talking about messages to your audience, you're more talking about control over the project.

Well, as the director of your own work, you will have a lot of control.

I can tell you, honestly, that you need to read up on this subject because it sounds like you don't know what you are doing or want to do.

I find its very hard to be in anything I write, because, to quote Zach Braff, one eye is always on the camera.

Bryy sorry if I sound a bit confusing but I'm a bit... well maybe I'm looking a bit too far ahead and get too overzealous. I got to calm down a little and think everything over again.
Heretic, so you think Richard Donners level higher then I think? You might be right. Dude what would've you said if I said I'm trying to reach James Cameron's level or Peter Jacksons level? I'm actually still a very very big nobody.
I better take everything one step at the time and I'll get there when the time is ripe. I'm only 17 still goes to school every day and I'm already trying to figure out a scenario for when I get into Hollywood which can take another ten years.

Someone - don't think about it like that. Just write the work. Don't think about fame and fortune yet. Hone your craft.

Thx Chilli I will. Hopefully. I'm still puzzeling things out.

Wow that one minute short sounds really cool! If you ever can, you should post it up, I'd love to watch it.

For Someone- Rather than thinking that you're too young to start, that you should just wait another ten years, blah blah, you should just go for it now. Write scripts, participate in making films, go to and volunteer at festivals, watch movies. Just learn as much has you can and when you feel ready and at your best, make your film. You can't think of yourself as a nobody, but you have to already see yourself as a screenwriter, a filmaker. If you're young, then that's the best time to start cause you have a whole life ahead of you! Well thats my two cents on for you. :p

Anyways, I've helped out in several films. Two being a sort of educational short (becoming an episodic I believe) for little kids. It actually won many awards and the director finally recieved funding from a big production so she's making her third one and she's hoping that it becomes an episodic series. Anyways, I'm helping out with that, can't wait until it starts again. I helped out on a couple student films as well, I think the directors are trying to send it out. And yeah, I've always thought that if I was to make one of my films, I would want to direct it myself. But I guess most screenwriters think that way, because it's your work and you don't want to see someone twist your vision.

EsKayEye,

Are you kidding me? 20$

Twenty Bucks (1993) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108410/

The film follows a $20 bill from its ATM birth to its eventual demise. Along the way, the note weaves in and out of the lives of a street person, an aspiring writer, a stripper, two thieves, and many others in surprising and inventive ways.

Quite a coincidence eh? Or is it?