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It's somewhat presumptuous to look at a business about which you know nothing and to dictate a better way by which they could do business. Who cares. Clearly not you. Which makes you a troll.
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:34:17 +0000 (UTC), Ron I'm curious what your basis for this assertion is. By your own admission, you have little experience with screenwriting in a professional context. Two things: logic and something called THE REAL WORLD. Most people in the REAL WORLD do not do things the way Hollywood does them. That's why it doesn't cost them two hundred million dollars to produce a two-hour presentation, a novel, a play, a piece of software, a car, a ship, an airplane, a business transaction, a restaurant, etc. I'm curious as to exactly which REAL WORLD you're talking about. I happen to have a day job in advertising, and I can attest that my line of work is pretty similar to filmmaking. And I've helped my colleagues on their 2-hour presentations before, and I can tell you, that's a pretty collaborative process as well. Piece of software? Just take a look at the number of credits on your typical Xbox game. Cars, ships, airplanes? Plenty of cooks in those broths, I assure you. If you think producing any of those things is the work of one Auteur, you're in Cloudcuckooland. It's somewhat presumptuous to look at a business about which you know nothing and to dictate a better way by which they could do business. Who cares. Clearly not you. Which makes you a troll. I'm just happy you cited Aristophanes. Yes!
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 23:11:14 +0000 (UTC), Paulo Joe Jingy 1.) If you don't live in town, don't let on until after they read and liked the _script_ that you live in New Mexico or New Jersey or wherever. What a bunch of idiots inhabit Hollyweird. �Can you imagine literary publishers insisting writers live in New York? Why don't you just read the damn material? An out of town client makes life tougher for the agent/ manager and unless your in the top 1% of screenwriters it will hinder an agent's ability to get you a job - and him his ten percent of your fee. There is a huge bias against out of towners so try not to tip your hand. And why is there a huge bias against out of towners? �Because Hollyweird is full of idiots. �No wonder movies and TV have declined so precipitously. Why don't you just read the damn material? I will only reply to this one point. Your analogy with literary publishers is wrong. Writing a novel is a mostly solo business - mostly because there'll be an editor. And the editing process can be conducted through the mail - edited manu_script_s can be Fedexed back and forth between the writer and the editor. Filmmaking, however, is a collaborative process. Once a _script_ gains the interest of a producer, he's going to want to meet the writer, maybe discuss a few changes that might attract the interest of a hot director or actor. Once the director or actor comes on board, he or she might have their own input into the _script_. And all kinds of things can happen during shooting that may necessitate on-the-fly _script_ changes. Finally, once the film's being put together in the editing suite, it may look a lot different than it did on paper, and maybe a scene may be trimmed here or a new scene may need to be re- shot there - so more _script_ changes. The writer needs to be on hand for all of these things - unlike a novelist, a screenwriter needs to *be there*. All you are saying is, It's done this way. �All I'm saying is, there's no need for it to be done this way. � If the _script_ is good in the first place, the changes that need to be made can be made in two sets, assuming the producer or his story editor know how to organize their thoughts and communicate them in English to the writer. Of course, if they don't know what they're doing... If the original screenwriter cannot make the changes, then another screenwriter can be hired. �No need for the original screenwriter of the spec _script_ to meet personally with the producer and others. You are making a fundamental mistake, and like most of the mistakes you make, it is born of of ignorance of how this business works and how movies get made. The analogy to a novel writer and a publisher is basically flawed (and by the way, if you think that every novel that was ever published made its way from initial submission to the bookshelf with two sets of revisions, than you know as little about the book business). In publishing, the novel is the end product. If they buy a novel, they're going to publish the novel. In the movie business, the screenplay is not the end product, the movie is, and in this business, movies are extremely expensive to produce, market, and distribute. Screenplays and other literary material are, compared to the cost of a finished film, extremely cheap. That leads to one of the basic realities of the movie business
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And yet these untalented losers all post under their own names. Unlike all the loser shoe salesman who know better than the rest of us. Well, excuse me, Sir: my name is Dan M and I live in OH. Your (as of ?the rest of us?) name seems to be ? ummm lemme think: wbra? Kin? Aol? Bra (are ya a pornographer?)? I mean c?mon: when u?ve been born with your only spinning neuron paying rent in yer testicles, why da fuck would ya brag about it, eh? and speaking Spanish, you retard, let's see: all the loser ?!; salesman who know ?! I mean I know you guys are stupid, but will ya ever stop proving your autism again and again?
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:34:17 +0000 (UTC), Ron I'm curious what your basis for this assertion is. By your own admission, you have little experience with screenwriting in a professional context. Two things: logic and something called THE REAL WORLD. Most people in the REAL WORLD do not do things the way Hollywood does them. That's why it doesn't cost them two hundred million dollars to produce a two-hour presentation, a novel, a play, a piece of software, a car, a ship, an airplane, a business transaction, a restaurant, etc. I'm curious as to exactly which REAL WORLD you're talking about. I happen to have a day job in advertising, and I can attest that my line of work is pretty similar to filmmaking. And I've helped my colleagues on their 2-hour presentations before, and I can tell you, that's a pretty collaborative process as well. Piece of software? Just take a look at the number of credits on your typical Xbox game. Cars, ships, airplanes? Plenty of cooks in those broths, I assure you. If you think producing any of those things is the work of one Auteur, you're in Cloudcuckooland. You can't follow a line of thought. Few pieces of software are made the way you people make movies, and those are usually pieces of software that fail to get made. Production processes are efficient and organized, and no, they do not depend on meeting the engineer personally, assessing their youth, sexiness, connections or party-ability. The question is not whether there are other people involved, but whether the process is efficient and intelligent.
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And yet these untalented losers all post under their own names. Unlike all the loser shoe salesman who know better than the rest of us. Well, excuse me, Sir: my name is Dan M and I live in OH. Your (as of ?the rest of us?) name seems to be ? ummm lemme think: wbra? Kin? Aol? Bra (are ya a pornographer?)? I mean c?mon: when u?ve been born with your only spinning neuron paying rent in yer testicles, why da fuck would ya brag about it, eh? and speaking Spanish, you retard, let's see: all the loser ?!; salesman who know ?! I mean I know you guys are stupid, but will ya ever stop proving your autism again and again? L8 nuz, You are far too brilliant to be wasting your valuable time on this newsgroup with a bunch of hacks and wannabe hacks. You need to take your genius and your screenplay out to LA and show dem what it's all about. No what I'm sayin? We can't keep up wit you, and dat's a fact. You just shreddin us here. We is stupid, and you da man! You keep givin us da beat down and it hurts real bad. So go give LA the 411 on the L8 nuz _style_, get doze films made, collect doze Oscars, and send doze women out there into orgasmic orbit. Den we be sayin, I knew L8 before he became orgasmic superstar , and maybe we finally get laid. Peace out, bro
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