Screenwriting / Filmmaking General

>>81410939
>So what are you working on right now?
A horror movie, but I hate horror movies, does anybody want to discuss horror?

>>81410939
Any FTPs containing non-free screenwriting software? I notice that threads like this on /tv/ never contain ftps with commercial software. Can we change that?

I'm bored out of my fucking skull. Will tell a filmmaking story if anons want to hear it.

We have
>the worst film course I will ever do
or
>my first project / the unprepared fiasco

Both are pretty good stories imo -- the latter has better on set antics, the former off-set drama

>>81413530
former

>>81413750
>recently finished college (britfag here) and I didn't think I could get into university (I later did) and I couldn't (yet) find a shitty minimum wage job that would take me
>by this point I'm about 16 and I've done a few cheap film courses before, im talking £30 plus travel expenses, and they were great to do
>for months i keep hearing about this academy
>don't want to name it cos of anonimity so I'll call it Film-Fest
>film fest has a twenty quid entry fee and an interview day
>decide to go for it....

part one -- waiting room

>so im waiting in the waiting room somewhere in this basement in london with all these other student-types
>there's a lot of actors, several crew, and some writers, though at the time I couldn't tell who was what
>so im sitting there and there's this fat young guy sitting next to me
>I ask him what he's interviewing for
>he tells me screenwriting
>i love writing screenplays so I ask what what kind of stuff he's written before
>he proceeds to tell me about a script called 'wiggers' -- meaning white niggers, and that its a comedy / gang film
>doesn't really have anything else to say about it beyond the premise
>I feign enthusiasm
>ask his name
>he tells me 'Jack'
>little while later I go in for my interview
>feel like matt damon in good will hunting when he gives that long speech in his interview
>the interviewer is a young student type ginger kid
>blow him and this other student type girl away with my prior experience
>feels good
>walk out
>they say they'll let me know if i get it soon
>I leave

>>81413996

part two -- arrival

>i find out I got in
>not only that but I'm signed on as director
>think this is going to be my way into the film industry finally
>film-fest say they'll take you on to be a part of their team if they like working with you
>don't want to mess this opportunity up
>have to travel to this hotel where I'm gonna stay for two weeks
>also forgot to mention the course costs like £900 or some shit
>my mum paid it cos she's an angel even when she couldn't really afford it
>I'm forever grateful to my mother for that
>hotel is expensive as shit
>food costs a lot
>but fuck it it'll be worth it, right?

-- the forming of the groups --

>put into a group
>consists of 8 actors
>small crew unit
>me as director
>this is the first time I meet Jack
>think of lenny from of mice and men
>this guy was huge, fat, with a lazy eye and athletes foot and had the mental vocabulary of a 12 year old
>find out he's the writer in my group
>okay...I can try to make this work
>we are given a brief of what to do by the film fest runners
>1) create a five minute short film
>2) all 8 actors have to have speaking roles
>3) everyone in the group cannot have their role fucked with
>so we as a group start discussing ideas

Hell begins

No FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL sites, then? Just dumb idea exchanging? Fuck, this thread sucks dick

>>81414229
I'll continue if anons are lurking, don't want to write the whole thing unless anons are reading

>>81414263
>FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL
how the fuck were we supposed to know that's what you meant by FTP you stupid fucking fag
these threads always take a while to get going, wait, I still don't even know what you're asking for

>>81414310
your story is kind of shit, but I want to see how autistic Jack is.
delete your posts while you still have time or continue, it do not matter.

>>81414310
do it

bumpan

(F)ile (T)ransfer (P)rotocol sites pls