Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Taking It in the Shorts


There was a great turnout at the Tower Theater tonight for the film screening.  Kyle Mallory held the premiere for his short film "Death Rides the Nine".  Also playing were Murray Triplett's "Ignoble", Greg Johnson and Brandon Smith's "Scout's Honor", and Scott Halford's "Hero to Me".


I don't know what the actual ticket count was, but I would guess it was over 200, and by the show of hands before the movies began, most of the audience had not worked on any of the films.

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Monkey See, Monkey Do

The blogosphere has some great screenwriting contributors.  In my previous post I talked about trying out a pitching technique I took from an article on Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott's site Wordplayer .


I want to mention a couple of other blogs I really enjoy.  John Rogers, The Kung-Fu Monkey , puts up some great information.  Read his recent entry about how to write action sequences .  Josh Friedman, The Infinite Monkey , is another definite winner.  I just have to be careful to set down my drink before reading his entries or his ascerbic posts would have me constantly squirting Gatorade out my nose.  Read his story about breaking into the business .

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Throwing The First Pitch


I practiced pitching a screenplay to the Utah Screenwriters Group  tonight.  I divided my story into 18 major sequences, put them on index cards, and pinned them to a cork board.  Actually, it took two cork boards.


I was really happy with the way it turned out, and I feel better about my structure after having broken it down this way.  I can look at it and tell the structure works.


I got the concept for pitching with the bulletin board from Terry Rossio's website Wordplayer .  Terry's column on pitching  has some great advice.

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Facing The Public


Last night Scott Halford screened the premiere of his film "Hero To Me ", which is the first film I worked on after moving to Utah earlier this year.  A good-sized crowd turned up and the film was well-received.


Next week the film is off to the Hollywood DV Festival.  Good luck, Scott.