Write the script and Make it too!
08-17-09
It’s one thing to be a dreamer of words but another to be a doer of action.
So don’t just write a spec screenplay and send it out with the hopes of it getting optioned and produced. Do that for the big budget projects you find your soul must write but in your spare time, write a very tiny budget script for the internet and broadcast it yourself.
Sure you will need a camera (iphone/cell phone or HD videocam recorder will do), a copy of adobe moviemaker or similar editing software and garageband or protools for embedding the audio and soundtrack. You become your own global studio. Then upload to one of the many distribution networks out there.
Why? Because quite a few writer/producer types are being discovered by this method of self-production. That is why I am now writing a pilot webisode that could be expanded into many more (just in case the public likes the concept).
A fellow screenwriter wrote a script but was unable to locate enough actors to participate in the project, so instead of giving up, she made puppets and had them recite her dialogue. Very creative AND she owns the name and likeness for each puppet/character. Inexpensive and yet brilliant idea.
It may sound sacrilegious but movies are 90 minute commercials for the merchandise and toys (if they have a mass merchandising story capability). All the ancillary products are the reason comics are doing so well as movies. It takes the same amount of time to write a toy commercial movie like Transformers or Ironman, as it does to write a non-merchandisable love story or drama.
If you produce your short film let me know as I really look forward to seeing it. So don’t wait for producers to make your movie, make it yourself. Take control of your destiny and just do it for fun! Maybe profits will follow!
Good luck with your endeavours!
Sandford Tuey