For my first official post as an aspiring filmmaker a filmmaker (have to remember to call myself a filmmaker now), I had hoped to have something of relevance to write about. Given that it's me, however, I got stuck just coming up with a title for the blog. So, Hellstudio will have to do. Fitting, I suppose, as the screenplay I'm currently working on is horror-comedy, and lord will it ever be hell to get it produced.
To be quite honest, calling it a screenplay is a bit of an overstatement. As of now, it's really more of a vague idea. Although I'm normally horrible about actually completing anything that I write, I'm hopeful that this time will be different. As it is my last quarter in film school, and I have yet to learn anything about actually writing, producing or hell even filming a movie, I decided that this quarter would be different. In order to rectify this serious lack of an education, I enrolled in both Fundamentals of Film and Video Production, which is offered by the film department, and Filmmaking: From Writing to Releasing, which is offered not by the film department, but as a Kresge college course. So far I've learned next to nothing in the production course, and a whole hell of a lot in the filmmaking course. Big shocker there.
I'm pretty excited about the Writing/Releasing course. It looks like it's going to be quite work intensive, but by the end this amorphous idea should be shaped into a workable pitch, with a treatment, marketing strategy, casting call and everything. So who knows, maybe the day will come when I'll be able to call myself a filmmaker and really mean it.For now, I will leave you with my log-line: A hitchhiker must save the world by bringing about the apocalypse.
In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow, "Goodnight and good luck."
To be quite honest, calling it a screenplay is a bit of an overstatement. As of now, it's really more of a vague idea. Although I'm normally horrible about actually completing anything that I write, I'm hopeful that this time will be different. As it is my last quarter in film school, and I have yet to learn anything about actually writing, producing or hell even filming a movie, I decided that this quarter would be different. In order to rectify this serious lack of an education, I enrolled in both Fundamentals of Film and Video Production, which is offered by the film department, and Filmmaking: From Writing to Releasing, which is offered not by the film department, but as a Kresge college course. So far I've learned next to nothing in the production course, and a whole hell of a lot in the filmmaking course. Big shocker there.
I'm pretty excited about the Writing/Releasing course. It looks like it's going to be quite work intensive, but by the end this amorphous idea should be shaped into a workable pitch, with a treatment, marketing strategy, casting call and everything. So who knows, maybe the day will come when I'll be able to call myself a filmmaker and really mean it.For now, I will leave you with my log-line: A hitchhiker must save the world by bringing about the apocalypse.
In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow, "Goodnight and good luck."
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