In addition to all the planning, and brainstorming and whatnot that goes into writing a script, what I keep getting told is that it's very important to do your research. This means watching films that are in the same genre as the film you hope to produce, as well as films that exemplify some aspect of your story. Well, given that I'm relatively new to the horror genre (don't ask me why I decided to do a horror-comedy given my inexperience, something just grabbed me about the story idea and about the genre as a whole), I have a whole lot of films that I need to watch. In order to aid that process, I have decided to make a list of everything I need to see. I'll be crossing the films off as I watch them, and adding new ones as they are recommended. I'll post the list in my next blog. I'll try to post reviews and any ideas I come up with after watching them.
Being a film major sure does get expensive, though. I was out at Streetlight (a local used music/movie/video game store), and I couldn't seem to keep myself from buying three movies that I felt would help me with my screenplay: John Carpenter's They Live (which apparently has a very similar plot as my concept), Alien Apocalypse with Bruce Campbell (yeah, it's a SciFi channel movie, but come on, Bruce Campbell! It looks like it could be pretty funny), and a movie that looks absolutely, wonderfully terrible called Teenage Zombies. This was after I already bought Christopher Moore's Lamb (which I've been dying to read, and was used and 20% off. I didn't realize he also wrote Practical Demonkeeping. I really enjoyed that book) and Movie Maker Magazine (it's for class, but like all of the readings for Writing/Releasing it looks really exciting). Gar. I'm not a fan of being broke. I need a job that pays real money, unlike the job I have now. I'm still dying to get my hands on the Evil Dead trilogy, but being me, I want the movies with the necronomicon covers. That's going to be both hard to come by and expensive. I'd settle for the individual movies in boring old covers, but I can't even seem to find those for reasonable prices.
Being a film major sure does get expensive, though. I was out at Streetlight (a local used music/movie/video game store), and I couldn't seem to keep myself from buying three movies that I felt would help me with my screenplay: John Carpenter's They Live (which apparently has a very similar plot as my concept), Alien Apocalypse with Bruce Campbell (yeah, it's a SciFi channel movie, but come on, Bruce Campbell! It looks like it could be pretty funny), and a movie that looks absolutely, wonderfully terrible called Teenage Zombies. This was after I already bought Christopher Moore's Lamb (which I've been dying to read, and was used and 20% off. I didn't realize he also wrote Practical Demonkeeping. I really enjoyed that book) and Movie Maker Magazine (it's for class, but like all of the readings for Writing/Releasing it looks really exciting). Gar. I'm not a fan of being broke. I need a job that pays real money, unlike the job I have now. I'm still dying to get my hands on the Evil Dead trilogy, but being me, I want the movies with the necronomicon covers. That's going to be both hard to come by and expensive. I'd settle for the individual movies in boring old covers, but I can't even seem to find those for reasonable prices.
Oh, why couldn't I have just become a economics major? Then I'd probably be looking at a future where I 'd have some hope of financial success.
Oh, wait. I'd shoot myself it I became accountant. Right.
The life of a starving artist, here we come!
1 comment:
Little secret: "starving" never needs to be part of the equation.
I've learned this quite well being mostly unemployed for several months now.
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