Greetings,
I am *starts counting on fingers* 23, I ALWAYS forget my age.
I've had schooling for 3D Modeling and Animation, Visual Effects, and
Post Production I have had plenty of work in those areas and by trade
of work I have also worked as a Director, Producor, and Actor.
Programs I am skilled with are 3DS Max, Maya, Adobe Premiere, HitFilm,
Adobe Photoshop, and FL Studios.
I have had work on 2 Short Films and 1 Low Budget Film and a handful of local
Music Videos in my area.

I would say I am both new and not new to SS, though I now have membered myself
I have actually trolled about SS for alittle over a year now reading scripts, reading posts
and just trolling/hanging about.
Reasons for joining are for Work and Networking, looking to find people to meet and films to shoot.
I guess that would be all I have to say right now.
If anyone have questions comments anything feel free to ask.
Be interseting to get to know some of you and hopefully get to work with some of you to.

Salutations.

Welcome to SS. I'm Gabe, I love writing horror, thriller, and unintentional comedy. . Got 2 features up here. One in my sig, while the other is under works. And 2 shorts that I'm proud of.

A couple of pointers on how to use this site effectively:

1. Read scripts and leave reviews. It doesn't matter if your new. Reviews help and gets you known around here. We'll be interested in your review since you've dabbled in directing, producing and acting.

2. Be thick skinned. Be prepared to face criticism, but know that 99% of the criticism comes from people genuinely trying to help you. Don't take it personally which a lot of people do.

3. Have fun.

Hope this helps,

Gabe

Welcome up! Sounds like you have a nice range of experience there - could come in useful.

You'll set yourself up well by chucking some comments down on what you read - anything will do early on, and then build it up some.

Enjoy!

Welcome Earl!

Look forward to reading some of your work!

dena

Quoted from Mr.Ripley Be thick skinned. Be prepared to face criticism, but know that 99% of the criticism comes from people genuinely trying to help you. Don't take it personally which a lot of people do.

So wait if someone says my work is that of an ass (pardon the language), its criticism and not a compliment, aw man.... but what if I like it harsh.... -.o hmmm makes me sould like a Masochist, thats probably not healthy... moving on.
Did you know that the Old Norse word for God is Ass... Id be pleased if someone said my work was that of an Ass.

Thanks for the info there, I am quite well aware of how things work.

Quoted from Forgive Sounds like you have a nice range of experience there - could come in useful

I wish... when you have that range of talent like a jack of all trades, people dont tend to take you seriously. They tend to think that either you are some egotistical boaster or that though you may know how to do the stuff you do not have any decent or good skill at any of it, and I already have it hard because. Just makes the victory all the sweeter when you actually do something when everyone thinks you can't.


@pale yellow and anyone else who will say the will look forward to or anything along the lines of wanting to read my work. Im not going to touch that with a ten foot pole because I know I can't write... like AT ALL.... So it is quite amusing to me and probably will be even more amusing if someone actaully reads an entire script of mine.
Yet thanks for the welcome and the looking forward.

If you like it harsh, they're are several people here would instantly oblige.   

Gabe

Welcome Earl,

Look forward to not reading your work!

Steve

Welcome to SS, Earl.

Always great to see some new faces around. Hope to see some work from you, soon.

Daniel

Hello Earl,

Welcome to the SS board, glad to see another stick their neck out.

With your filming background it would be interesting to hear your views on which short scripts would be easy, or should i say easier, to film.

Many around here and include myself, are starting out and hoping for one of their scripts to be filmed one day.

all the best

G'day Earl from Australia,

There is a huge amount of talent on SS and your experience can compliment ours.

Hope to cross paths in the future and looking forward to your reading my screenplays and reading yours, should you post them.

Regards Alex

Hi Earl.

Quoted from Reef Dreamer Many around here and include myself, are starting out and hoping for one of their scripts to be filmed one day.

Hoping ...dreaming...hoping.... it would be very kewl to see anything I wrote filmed one day!! Dreaming...hoping...dreaming

Hey Earl,

Welcome to the boards.
SS is all about the quid pro quo.
Just be sure to post reviews on scripts by active members.
This greatly increases the chances the author will communicate and reciprocate!
Treat others the way you want to be treated and let her rip!

You're a Floridian with some production experience.
Perhaps you should check out this thread by a SS vet in FL about their latest film!
http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?m-1321028023/

Seems like a fine way to dive in. Enjoy the site!

Regards,
E.D.

Hi Earl, sounds like you're a man of many talents.

Welcome to Simply, and I'm sure you'll enjoy your stay.

Quoted from Reef Dreamer With your filming background it would be interesting to hear your views on which short scripts would be easy, or should i say easier, to film. Many around here and include myself, are starting out and hoping for one of their scripts to be filmed one day.

Well I willl explain, and sorry to mods and rules if for the brief time this turns into more than introducing myself topic.

Even feature films can be easy of any genre but even then it can come down to what the genre of short or feature film is, and I will explain some of the key differences and it will have abit to do with the technical production side of it so I may lose some people here.

The only difference as I see it and some people can argue the point, that between a short and a feature is that a short you jump right into the action of it all as an example:

You do a short about about a detective in a short you go about to say in in the first 5 minutes that he's a detective, worked on the job 15 years or so lost his partner in a bad case and he's ever been looking for is partner's murderer over the years. Then the next 5 mins you start about his next case he gets called in for something simple, like an older lady calls in because some weird stuff is going down in the apartment next door there immediately our hero meets the our bad guy who just so happens to be the guy who murders the partner and the next 5 mins you show a gun fight vs him and the thugs and bad guy you let the bad guy get aways as a small plot point to keep things interesting then the next 5 to 10 mins is where our hero is hot on the trail and beats the bad guy and theres your short. Over all its lasts 15 to 30 minutes for a good short.
Now a feature film of the same idea you going to spend more time average 10minutes in a feature film showing our audience the everyday world about of our hero holding off info of his dead partner as a plot point later in the story in some convenient way to help drive the hero to the end he has real reason to figure out whats going on if it has something to do with his dead partner. And throwing in some more plot points for information gathering and fighting, being what sounds like an action film by rule of thumb every 10 minutes theres action and a plot point so the difference is instead of giving everything out at the start of a short and ending it your dragging it out over the course of a 2hour or so film gradually explaining the story as you go.

Now the reason I said that is because as a producer I am going to look at both films the same way, as an action film. So they are going to need Visual effects for explosions, guns fights, makeup for fake blood and props for weapons and such. And some genre's require some of the same and some dont.

A low down aside from info about location shooting:
-A Action film needs porps for fake guns, weapons and what not, visual effects for gun shots, explosins and makeup for fake blood all of which are easy to do. But the bigger you go the harder it is, like say the film RED easy to do just get some fake guns and alot of gun fire and some esplosions yet something like Live free and die hard abit harder to bigger explsions more explosions and more gun fire and effects of course when you do a big film like that all the fire and explosions are real because the have pyrotechnics to play with because its a multi million dollar film.

-A Horror film would need the right lighting, lighting is always key in horror film and not easy to set up at times and sometimes you just out right dont need to bother with it, make up for the blood, sometimes a rubber poop monster depending what kills everyone and sound for the scary music and screaming helpless big breasted girls that plague horror films.... which is not always that bad.

-A Scifi film would require alot more Visual Effects and I mean ALOT more than an action film being in most cases what your shooting does not exist an alien planet, spaceships, robots and all that takes alot of computer work to do which costs a mad amount of money and time. And a rubber poop monster for your aliens and things, you could go the older star wars route where alot of it was shot with minature props but it cost to make them and most props for scifi have to be made. Alot of make up for makeing aliens and such to Scifi is probably the hardest to do.

-Then theres Romance, Comedies, some Documentaries and Inspirational and I list all these the same because you dont need anything aside of a location to shoot a camera and actors. These are the easiest to shoot but the hardest to write scripts for. For your comedy films and rom-coms its easy to shoot but it has to be funny and trying to be funny or ever scripting funny on purpose is considered the hardest script to write in the industry by most, and comedies are almost mostley 90% improv requires a good actor. Romances are easier if you can just get the audience to fall in love with the story and the characters and what they go through then your set and inspirationals are just about the same make the audience cry and fall in love.

-And then theres Animation and im going to just say that includes both pixar style, disney style, anime and stop motion.  Doing these styles not all that hard its just tedious and require a large amount of artist to work on. I would advise staying away from till you are a big name writer or you will probably never see it be made ever.
Now theres also like transformer animation stuff and spacships and the such which are actually easy. This is where I spent alot of my time doing 3d modeling an animation mostely that of modeling. Ive got 3D Models of cars, planes, spaceships and the such sitting at my disposal that can be used and is not all hard to implement in a film unless you go to the Scifi route which as i said before requires unique props. But something like transformes all the props are regular everyday guns and stuff only real fake stuff are robots and effects.

Props, go to wamart get some toy ploice kits you got fake badge maybe a fake toy gun to, or up it some go get airsoft guns, especially around halloween time stock up on fake blood and makeup or make your own, congratulations you have all you need for an action film your gun muzzle flashes and explosions all post production as visual effects you got your self an action film. If your lucky around halloween you can get a good mask and you've got the movie scream, aside from its dick jokes gotta find someone that can write that boom a horror film or horror comedy in terms of scream. Halloween is probably the best time for props of any kind can make tons of movie cheap and easy to make makes it real easy to get a fake poop monster to.

I could probably shoot anything from any genre aside from a Animation style film not my cup of tea, got skill in it it just takes way to long to do Ill start pulling my hair out long before its end. I could do modeling an animation that of implementing fake items into the real world footage like transformers and the such less animation required because its not the enitire film of animation just areas alot easier to do.

However my choices of the 3 easiest to shoot for any film maker starting in the buisness and even at higher levels would be Action, Horror when theres no rubber poop monster involved and go the slasher or haunted paranormal route, and I guess inspirational and rom-coms if thers a good script for it.

Hardest to make Scifi and the Animation.
And all of that goes for both feature and short films, alot of that can either be opinion or actual fact and I tried to keep it short... sort of, I mean theres tons more I could go on about like films that do the best in film festivals are inspirational films everyone is a sucker for a good feeler movie look at the hurt locker as an example, and they are real easy to make and are virtually real cheap to make to. But I guess it depends what you have to work with in the end and what people are willing to contribute and do.

Aside from all that and I said something about all this being short.... is also when you look to have a film done is what the director or who so ever likes to shoot one person may like to shoot this another person that, I love to make rom-coms, inspirational, action and scifi if its not one of those ill be like ehh no thanks but if I know someone I will gladely network it out for you....

And I have so much more to say but I will end it there as I prefer yes an no questions better because if not I tend to ramble on but if anyone has further questions please ask I will answer what I can I do not mind at all.

And I do plan to comment on some scripts I have read im just not sure if it would be all cool to revive old threads so im going to wait abit to atleast and figure out who all is still active to make it more worth its time.

Welcome aboard, Earl.

As others have said, it's really a Quid Pro Quo world here.  The more you reach out, the more you get back.  Since you've rad a bunch of scripts here, now's a great time to jot down what you remember about it and let the writer know you read his or her stuff.

Gabe is the tough reviewer, BTW.  He can be downright BRUTAL!

Hope you enjoy your stay here.

...says Jeff the Brute Bush

Dena may be called "pale yellow", but her reviews can seem like pure midnight black.

Dreamscale's reviews can give you dreams about topping yourself because you've made so many schoolboy errors. lol.  Only joking, Jeff.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Simply's great because you get honest reviews and no brown nosing; it's the only way to improve your writing.