Scripts and Financing

            This week’s readings were interesting to me and I liked reading about them more than last weeks.  The first one was on brevity of storytelling, and I loved the example of the veteran and what most people think of them.  Then the author talked about a workshop where people tell their story in six words or less.  I could understand this to an extent, because whenever I put together a package for TV news, you have to be short, concise, and be able to tell a good story all at once.  So I can see this as a different viewpoint.

            The second reading was about scripts and actors once you are about to start your film.  A lot of the tips the author gave in the article were more common sense than anything.  Like the tips about how to get an actor, I figured those were the easiest ways to get that actor.  I liked how the author went in a timeline on different components in the process of making a movie.  There’s getting the actors, make sure the actors like you, and getting extras for the film.

            The final reading was on being able to pay and finance your project so that it could become a reality.  What really made this an important article was that the author showed how things use to be done in financing and distributing compared to what people can do now to get their movie out into the world.  What really caught my eye was that nowadays you can use any camera almost to be able to make a movie, whereas in the old days people had to pay tons and tons of money just to basically get a down payment on an expensive camera. 

Posted January 24, 2014 12:06

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