Scripted

“I have a very good script but Not able to meet the right people”

OH yeah right firstly You have a very good script and

                      secondly you want to meet the right people.

I will tell you two things

                       your script sucks

                      You will never meet the right people

I mean what do you think of yourselves? Steven Spielberg?. SO you want all director s to come to your home directly because you told you have a good script? Wait for some more time and you yourself will have no idea what a script is. I am saying this because I have met so many film-makers in Bangalore and everyone start s with the same sentence. Then when I ask what do you know technically about film-making. It s always the same thing I know how to handle camera, Direction, little editing etc etc. Truth is He has bought a DSLR camera few years back and never used for anything except to show off and call s himself a FILM_MAKER thinking it s cool to say it. But reality is you look like a fool. You are not a film-maker until you have release a film. And that why ehn someone ask s which film have you done you start to do bharatanatyam  “it s in you tube..so many people have watched it n all”. Seriously we look at new guys with real patience and let him say everything he want s but there s a limit for everything you know. We have no time to hear crap for hours.

During a interview of a editor for our company a guy came in and started saying His passion was to be a director n all

 we showed him our video s which we had made till date and asked him to say frankly what s his view on the video. He started off well by complimenting it

“ Frankly I have to say they are good creativity and editing and camera wise but It can be improved”

OK so we thought that s a interesting and common answer whenever we use the word Frankly. So we wanted to see what he will say next

“so what do you think you will do if given a chance in any video”

“ I can do many changes with graphics here and there”

“what graphics changes can you explain?”

“aaaa something cool n all…. I cant explain it “

“hmmm”

“but I want to be a director”

Yeah right I want to be Sachin Tendulkar . Why don’t we think practically. You are not going to be a director until you know what a director does. Director does not write stories , He does not Edit, He does not handle the camera, he doesn’t get actors all he does is HE DIRECTS. Stick to something and it might work out

Whenever you meet someone from IT companies nowadays all you know is they are either photographer s or Short film-makers. Some photographer s have made it big but short movie makers are just invisible as always. But the content and quality has improved and the writing has changed with standard s changing Here s some tips from Pixar about writing a script. It s good stuff if you can understand the basic thing s here

These were all tweeted by Emma Coats while she was in Pixar

1.      You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.

2.      You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.

3.      Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.

4.      Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.

5.      Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You’ll feel like you’re losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.

6.      What is your character good at, comfortable with? Throw the polar opposite at them. Challenge them. How do they deal?

7.      Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.

8.      Finish your story, let go even if it’s not perfect. In an ideal world you have both, but move on. Do better next time.

9.      When you’re stuck, make a list of what WOULDN’T happen next. Lots of times the material to get you unstuck will show up.

10.  Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in them is a part of you; you’ve got to recognize it before you can use it.

11.  Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you’ll never share it with anyone.

12.  Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.

13.  Give your characters opinions. Passive/malleable might seem likable to you as you write, but it’s poison to the audience.

14.  Why must you tell THIS story? What’s the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That’s the heart of it.

15.  If you were your character, in this situation, how would you feel? Honesty lends credibility to unbelievable situations.

16.  What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happens if they don’t succeed? Stack the odds against.

17.  No work is ever wasted. If it’s not working, let go and move on – it’ll come back around to be useful later.

18.  You have to know yourself: the difference between doing your best & fussing. Story is testing, not refining.

19.  Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.

20.  Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d’you rearrange them into what you DO like?

21.  You gotta identify with your situation/characters, can’t just write ‘cool’. What would make YOU act that way?

22.  What’s the essence of your story? Most economical telling of it? If you know that, you can build out from there.