The first fest I picked is also the first it was accepted by. I don’t know a lot about the is fest other then it is close to home and has a cool name. I’m hoping for the best as I have only been to one before this and that was just to help out. I will keep a posting letting you know what’s up. Here is a trailer for “The Hit”. It was a little harder then I expected because I little time and cutting a trailer for a short is tough since there isn’t that much material to begin with and you don’t want to reveal everything. Enjoy
Hurray, today I did some serious dust busting and got some of our work online. I think I might have got a staph infection from all the dust. Here for all your viewing enjoyment is a short commercial we did for Amazon awhile back. It was literally written in twenty minutes over coffee and shot in almost less time. Kudos to the editing. This is one of the few times I left it to someone else and I think he did a bang up job.
My newest project will be about the birth of superhero. With all these comics turning into movies I have decided to create a superhero in my media. Video will rule the day but I will start with photos and sort of turn the comic style back on itself.
This hero will rise from the ashes of the current war.
While I play the waiting game I have decided to start a new project which remains untitled but will be a work of fiction that surrounds a specialized squad of soldiers who at the beginning of the war had a unique mission which was later denied and left them on the retreat as war criminals. With all the focus at the theaters on comics being turned into films, I have an Idea that will kind of reverse the trend.
So please stick with me as I create a superhero out of regular joe. I hope it to be an ongoing series so check back often and watch it grow.
Was it really? I care for it. For one, it seemed to long.
The Joker was great. He liked chaos and he went at with a passion. The fact they told us how much he liked chaos was a little irritating but over all I thought his character was a very bright spot in a overwhelming dark film.
The bank heist was great. I loved it. It really set the tone for what I thought would be a fun movie. All the bad guys looked and acted like comic book bad guys worried about their cash. It really felt right. Then the Joker came out and didn’t overplay it like I thought he might after all the hype. He kept his cards tight to his vest, leaving us to wonder can he back this up. BTW, I’ve always heard said, “Close to the vest”, yet they said, “Close the chest” repeatedly. I’ll have to look that up.
When I met Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes I didn’t figure them for a couple and was surprised to see them as couple later on which really made it hard to accept the loss of his woman as a catalyst to him becoming Two Face. Throughout the picture I didn’t care for Mr. Dent, but when he became Two Face well….Flipping a coin for every fricking person got irritating. I remember meeting Two Face when Tommy Lee Jones played him and the character was interesting, and the make up Geez, that seemed way over the top. I would’ve made it more sinister since that is the nature of one side of the character.
Christian Bale….I love him, but either he is being under used or he isn’t right for Batman. And why is Batman a whiny baby that has lost his compass. I don’t like this Batman. And if you’re gonna make Batman torn between upright morals then don’t put him in an interrogation room with the Joker in front of a bunch corrupt cops and have him beat the man for information. This part felt wrong. Is Batman Good is Batman Bad? Do he like being Batman? The movie posed these questions and didn’t answer them. Batman actually became a martyr in the end. How the hell did we arrive there?
Under used Actors. How about Gary Oldman….I want to see this guy play a bad guy or how about a conflicted cop or DA. Now we’re talking. Having him play Gordon is like having him step in for background work. Extra………Gary Oldman. And I have to say my faith has been restored in Eric Roberts. He can be a very fine actor in the right part and this was a very good part for him.
The movie left me leaving confused. It seemed like it wanted be more complex, it wanted to be smarter and it just came out convoluted despite it’s brightest light the Joker. See the Joker was old school bad guy. He even said it, “I don’t scheme”. He just likes to watch the world burn, it’s what bad guys in comic books do. And I think we can all remember what hero’s do……
“$90.00 for 10 pitches anytime, PLUS ScriptCoach will edit one query letter of your choosing”. That’s the claim, but what I received back could hardly be called a query letter. I received a email stating that he didn’t understand my query letter and a form letter that was a, ” fill in the blanks”, sort of thing. Disappointed is an under statement. I worked long and hard on my pitch and I was really looking forward to see what a “Pro” would do with it. Looks like I will have to keep waiting. I am going to write back and let you all know how they respond because I was really looking forward to this service but now I am getting a little skeptical.
Hollywoodlitsales.com has a nice affordable coverage package for first timers to the service. For $75 “A professional story analyst (”reader”) will read your feature-length script 80-120 pages (no books for this special) and will analyze it in a coverage report of 3 pages single-spaced. Comments section will be two pages min. No synopsis is included”.
What did I get? I got 31/4 pages of coverage. While the comments were good there where some glaring mistakes. At first I was angry because some the problems outlined were because the reader made some mistakes I can only attribute to a quick hurried read. I considered asking for slower read but it wasn’t worth the hassle and I had enough notes I agreed with to busy me with hitting the script again.
How do I rate Hollywoodlitsales? Well….it’s obviously a business first and foremost. I think you can get the same type of coverage for free on triggerstreet. com as long as you can see through the competitiveness. If it’s your first draft there are going to be some issues and you already know that in the back of your mind. So I would suggest finding cheaper alternatives or even free resources such as triggerstreet.com or a new service that I am still looking at called Zura.com
Well I just finished a rewrite on the first draft yesterday and I’ve already found a new place to try it out on, www.your-insider.com. I read about it in the new “Creative Screenwriting” magazine I picked up at Borders last night.
Why did I choose to spend $77(it’s actually $87 up from $57 at premiere but if you mention “creative screenwriting” you get a ten dollar discount.) on this new outlet? First if he likes the script, he’ll try to front it through his connections. Yeah, we’ve all heard this, but there has got to be some people who can do this right? Or else we’d all walk around with negative thoughts and not show or promote our scripts. What I really like though is he said he will give notes depending on what the script needs. If it needs 2 pages or if it needs 10 pages it will receive it. I will keep you posted and look forward to reviewing this new service.
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