Day 20/365
I’ve been struggling to keep up lately… This is one of many reasons:
NURF Wars is a fourteen page screenplay (basically a comedy) I’ve been writing over the past few days. Screenplays are just blueprints for movies, so this is far from the end of my being busy. In fact, I’m directing this one, so I’m going to be more busy in the coming week than I have been in a long time.
I’m also going to be responsible for uh… everything else.
Aside from the acting and maybe some of the sound on the set (for moving shots), I’m always responsible for everything on my short films. Screenplay, planning, camera work, lighting, editing, color correction, effects, sound design, music, right up until I throw the whole thing onto DVD for my cast and crew to have.
No, I’m not trying to brag. I’m stubbornly independent. I don’t like delegating unless I can find someone who can completely blow me out of the water in performing what I could just as easily do myself.
For example, I’m sure I could do make-up for models. But I don’t. Because I already have someone who can completely crush me at it: www.jaylenebarbir.com
Having someone help you that’s good at what they do makes your life easier. Getting someone on board who sucks at what they do just to claim a larger crew, that makes your life miserable.
All this is partly why I took a picture of my video camera yesterday. It’s not so I can show off the gear I have, it’s because it’s on my mind a lot now and I’m not sure what to take pictures of day after day.
Ok, I gotta share this one with you.
Amy’s line of “I see a bright light” in the shot above is probably what you thought it was: she’s dying. More specifically, she’s been shot and her lover watches helplessly as she dies. But there’s a joke after that. So here’s what the screenplay looks like:
AMY
I see a bright light…
JOHN
Stay with me, babe! Stay with me!
Amy points to the parking lot light.
AMY
See? Right there.
She does see THE bright light after that, but I thought that was funny and worth sharing.
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