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Welcome! I am in the process of my "cherry popper"! How is it going, it is alot harder than I thought! Good luck and try hard to stay focused, when I first started I was ALLL OVER THE PLACE...but I seem to be on track now. Have you hit any bumps yet?
I've hit a few bumps, but that is probably more down to insatiability than anything else. I wrote my first short but chucked it because it didn't come out on the page how I saw it in my mind.
Nevermind, I'm sure that how it goes when you start out.
I was 13. It was autumn and we had just raked up a huge pile of leaves. We laid on the ground and covered ourselves with the pile until the rest of the world disappeared and it was just the two of us, then
Oh, wait a minute, this is about scripts. Um...
I wrote a bunch of plays in college - they were mostly short none of them longer than about 30 minutes. And then I had to make a living. About 20 years later, due to the people surrounding me at the time, my interest in film was reignited. Someone told me about Project Greenlight which was just kicking off here in Australia. I had two weeks to write a feature so I figured what the hell and I decided to give it a try. To my surprise I wrote a 90 pager in that time frame. It was a piece of crap but once I knew I could do it, it opened the floodgates and I haven't been able to stop since.
I wrote my first script - which was actually a 157-page feature - in may 2000. I had never written a script before at that time and needless to say, this script had all the mistakes known to man.
A couple of years later I decided to get back into writing, so I joined SS, bought The Screenwriter's Bible and I haven't looked back since.
Down in the hole / Jesus tries to crack a smile / Beneath another shovel load
Wrote my 1st script hmm let's see now... around 2003. I'd never written a short story before, let alone a script, this one turned out to be 120 odd pages and formatted wrong in many ways. I continued to write quite alot before I actually leart the correct way to format. A couple of features but mostly short scripts, fan scripts etc
Eventually I bought some books, read some screenplays, and figured out what I was doing wrong in my writing, and since then I've been working on more features rather than random shorts and basically just trying to grow and develop my craft.
First one I wrote was an adaptation of one of the "true stories" in Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide called The Devil's Dance, zombies attack a bomber crew who find themselves stranded in an abandoned Legionnaire fort decades after the same fort was attacked by the undead. I don't recall it being lynched or anything, but I quickly moved it aside. Cranked out about 3 scripts a month (generally a feature and a couple TV episodes) and I ended up with about 300 features, episodes, shorts, and treatments that I haven't looked at in a good three years now I guess. Haven't done anything major since, some projects for school, a couple freelance things, and I've cranked out a few treatments (and a couple sort films I'm working on) but my focus has moved primarily to graphic design and videography.
I'll never forget my first script, mostly because no matter how hard I try I can't forget it. "Directors Cut"... ooh, (shivers). I wrote it in one sitting and I thought it was a masterpiece. Ha ha...
Don't make the same mistakes I did(and still do), take your time!
Kind of an odd question. My first "screenplay" was written after I'd written some plays and musicals, so my first screenplay wasn't my first script, but that doesn't mean it was gold either. But on the other hand, that screenplay (which is posted on here in its third full rewrite) isn't my first on-screen idea.
My first actually goes back to high school when I took a video camera and just made up a story as I went along in my backyard with my brother and friends (who played multiple roles). I had no microphone, so it was dialogue free and I added a soundtrack in "post" (meaning I used a cassette player hooked up to a VCR that I switched music on while it was recording from the camera to the VCR). That didn't turn out too shabby, really, but it was never written down.
But my first written script is a musical that I wrote music and script for called Amehr. It was never past that first draft as it was too large an idea for a stage musical and had too many holes that would take too much stage time to fill, so I split it into three parts, but that's a long story.
My first shot at screenwriting was actually a collaboration with a good friend of mine who has been writing screenplays for years; since he was thirteen. He was the one who introduced me to screenplays by saying ,"I know you like to write, so let's write something." I've been writing screenplays since then and we constantly bounce ideas off one another.
My first independent script, however, I am still in the midst of writing. It's one part of a continuous story line that spans six separate screenplays and has been in "revision" mode for about a year now. There is still something about it that I can't quite put my finger on that makes it feel unfinished. When I first started writing it the idea was simple and I wanted it to be the most outrageous thing ever made, then I went back to it ,read it, and ended up throwing pretty much the entire thing out. When I look back at it, I still feel the need to tighten up a few things, especially dialogue, and the funny thing is that I kind of don't like any of my screenplays except for three of them (which I know is a large exception number for saying I don't like any of them) but i find myself continuously being pulled into the story. Only two people have read my first independent screenplay and both reviews were well received with criticisms here and there as well as suggestions in terms of story line.
I found this site while searching for a specific screenplay to read and I've read many of the screenplays off the site. I have a folder dedicated to unread screenplays on my laptop. So I was thinking of posting a few of my screenplays on here, but that thought makes me anxious. I don't feel as though any of them are complete, despite being "finished."
My first was a christmas school play i wrote for my class, i got the wondeful job of writing it and the wonderdul pain of sitting at home panicing wondering if it's good enough, but i was glad i didnt have to act in it =].
I dont got anyone here who will read it for me because they just dont really like reading or writing haha - so i'd read it outloud to myself - carry my hard back book every where jotting down my idea's.
But when i got it right it was alot of fun and when i got it wrong i'd wanna cry like a baby. But the play turned out very good and alot of fun for the class =], but my first cherry poppin movie writing ,i was 16 and it was called sci-hi fusion, about a group of aliens and a group of high school kids, it pulled out at 136 pages,my first draft of it was just awful.
I bought my self some software tools, and had to rewrite all of the dialogue and rewrite my ending - id set myself a dead line of 4 pages a day and wouldnt leave my room till i had done those four pages
But my final test to see if it was any good was reading it myself, which ive done alot, and im loving it =].
I've done 2 since then, and im about 22 pages into my new one broken world =].
... A good story can only be written by the character's that walk inside the words ....