I've got a notebook, a nice leathery non-moleskin notebook. It's been written in since May of this year and after three and a bit months, it is half full. It's strange, but I've found an evolution in my notemaking. It started with just film ideas, and has progressed to moments and lines.
Moments and lines that are not anchored by anything, no real relationship. Just minor events and dialogue. Sometimes ideas, stupid inventions. Such as a greenhouse in office space.
One of the things I like to do in my notebook is to pick one of my ideas and it's question and then I keep asking 'Why?' and I can expand a world, a code, regulations, characters, history in a matter of five minutes and onwards.
Wherever I go, I bring my notebook with me if possible. People might have one great idea, but they'd have more if they carried a notebook with them.
Wednesday 24 August 2011
Take me to the higher place
Just about time for another blog post.
Funny how my social life has slowed to a stop since Uni. The idea that my friends are all over the place and far away, is a bit odd.
I acheived a 2:1 for my course in Screenwriting. Expectations were met, acheiving a 1st was never going to happen, I had interests in writing scripts but not essays. My grade for my script was somewhat surprising, lower than I expected. The more I reflect on my script, the further I come to realising that I was focusing on writing 112 pages, rather than the substance of the story. That does not make me any less proud of my work, writing that much is fantastic to write, but I can do better and I will do better. I believe I was one of the few people in class when asked if we would send out our scripts to agencies and film companies following our grade didn't put their hands up.
The story was just something I had to get out and it would not be something I would like to be associated with. The story came from a set of events, not characters, not ideals and not emotion. The opposite of what really interests me. I also think that most films do this too much and much, much better than my screenplay.
I'm happy to leave John Fellini, Court Weissberg and the rest of them alone, despite loving Court Weissberg as a name. I don't know what it is but slightly off kilter names are more interesting than Dan Jones or Bill Smith. I almost feel that I wrote the anti-thesis of what I want to write, it was bad but I need to be bad so that I can improve.
It has still been four months since I have written anything creative, apart from jotting down ideas. The process was tough, I have about 35 stories I want to tell if not more. I need to prioritise, one of the first things will be a Sit-com pilot to get comedy out of my system. I am also planning out a novel that I think will be big, and I really mean big. But don't rush, I'm young and I have plenty of years to make failures before I start making the right choices and that is life pretty much.
Finally finished watching seasons 3,4 and 5 of The Wire. Now I've been badgering everyone about how good it is since I started watching it in 2007. Like the Rocky films and the Beverley Hill Cop duology (There is no third film) it will never get tiring. I don't think a television show will ever be bettered, in its little way it is social commentary on the working classes as well as crime and justice. there is a beautiful montage at the end of the finale where the characters roles are changing, all the big players if not dead are done and all the little ones have stepped up into their roles such as Michael becoming the new Omar, Dukie becoming the new Bubs, Carver becoming the new Daniels/Colvin and Sydnor becoming the new McNulty.
Now I'm onto watching seasons 1 of Taxi, Cheers and Seinfeld.
Funny how my social life has slowed to a stop since Uni. The idea that my friends are all over the place and far away, is a bit odd.
I acheived a 2:1 for my course in Screenwriting. Expectations were met, acheiving a 1st was never going to happen, I had interests in writing scripts but not essays. My grade for my script was somewhat surprising, lower than I expected. The more I reflect on my script, the further I come to realising that I was focusing on writing 112 pages, rather than the substance of the story. That does not make me any less proud of my work, writing that much is fantastic to write, but I can do better and I will do better. I believe I was one of the few people in class when asked if we would send out our scripts to agencies and film companies following our grade didn't put their hands up.
The story was just something I had to get out and it would not be something I would like to be associated with. The story came from a set of events, not characters, not ideals and not emotion. The opposite of what really interests me. I also think that most films do this too much and much, much better than my screenplay.
I'm happy to leave John Fellini, Court Weissberg and the rest of them alone, despite loving Court Weissberg as a name. I don't know what it is but slightly off kilter names are more interesting than Dan Jones or Bill Smith. I almost feel that I wrote the anti-thesis of what I want to write, it was bad but I need to be bad so that I can improve.
It has still been four months since I have written anything creative, apart from jotting down ideas. The process was tough, I have about 35 stories I want to tell if not more. I need to prioritise, one of the first things will be a Sit-com pilot to get comedy out of my system. I am also planning out a novel that I think will be big, and I really mean big. But don't rush, I'm young and I have plenty of years to make failures before I start making the right choices and that is life pretty much.
Finally finished watching seasons 3,4 and 5 of The Wire. Now I've been badgering everyone about how good it is since I started watching it in 2007. Like the Rocky films and the Beverley Hill Cop duology (There is no third film) it will never get tiring. I don't think a television show will ever be bettered, in its little way it is social commentary on the working classes as well as crime and justice. there is a beautiful montage at the end of the finale where the characters roles are changing, all the big players if not dead are done and all the little ones have stepped up into their roles such as Michael becoming the new Omar, Dukie becoming the new Bubs, Carver becoming the new Daniels/Colvin and Sydnor becoming the new McNulty.
Now I'm onto watching seasons 1 of Taxi, Cheers and Seinfeld.
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