Good Reader… Hopefully you are already hip to the SCREENPLAYED. This idea of “clips and scripts” isn’t new. Sit down with a favorite movie, pull up the screenplay, and let ‘er roll. You can see –maybe like you’ve never seen before–all sorts of unknown detail about the movie at script level. What was added? What […]
Hey, 2019…hello! Good Reader, an honest and heartfelt apology for being away so long. Can I just say with bold and italicized force that Script Gods Must Die lives! Life intercedes. Workload. The stuff that actually pays the bills. To run it back a month, between Columbia College, Second City, Chicago Filmmakers, Screenwriting University, my Saturday writing […]
Writing the Micro-Budget Film One of the reason I’ve recently been neglectful of original content here at Script Gods is that, aside from the book I just finished, I’ve been working with Screenwriting University on a series of webinars and classes. One of these is Writing the Micro-Budget Screenplay and I’d like to give some […]
In last week’s post I went over “Rules” 1-5 for Micro-Budget. These aren’t rules at all. You can break any one of them and make a killer movie. I’m just giving guidelines on how you can save some $$$$ when you’re making your own movie. The stills are from Chat, the 44k movie my partner […]
***HEY ALL! Just back from a month of faraway Eastern landscapes where I confronted Real Feel temperatures of 107 and consulted the Gods for wisdom on future projects. I also dipped my feet into an aquarium filled with feet-chewing fish that felt like a hundred electric razors buzzing. The Gods instructed me to humble myself […]
