Coffee and More Coffee

So, here I am at Stumptown coffee, enjoying whatever coffee is being brewed at the moment. I've been here and at Powell's drinking coffee before here. That's a load of coffee! So I have actively sought out people for crew and staff for "Three Hour Transfer." I do need to tweek out some of the script as it seems to come off a little corny at third or so glance. I am happy with "It's Only Art" and don't really need any major overhauls done to it. I got ahold of Rachel, and won't say anything more as of yet.

Polyglot

So, I'm working on a third screenplay, Polyglot. Polyglot has been in my head for sometime, shortly after I thought of It's Only Art. I haven't idea in what order I want to work on what, but it's something else for me to work on I suppose. I'm still looking for work. I hate not having anything going on. Oh, I got to make out with a cute girl last night, that was cool.

Discouraging

So, not one person has yet to contact me about the script. Which is just as well, seeing that I'm focusing on "Three Hour Transfer", which I can probably film for cheap and quickly. Anyhow, I now must look for work. I've had some major stomach issues lately, more so than usual.

Three Hour Transfer

So, inspired to make a film before It's Only Art, I've decided to bust out a screenplay. In one day. It's loosely based on Chungking Express. I call it Three Hour Transfer, it's called that due to everything happening within a three hour span, in which our hour Dylan needs to use his bus pass. there are two stories, so the story is split in two. The most notable swipe of the Wong-Kar Wai classic. If I pull it off, I'll use it as leverage for more people to get behind me. So far, it's just me. Sad, yes I know.

Fired or Freed

This can be good or bad. Bad because I'm not working, which would only make me more introverted. Good, because now I can concertrate on this film project... then again, it's only good if I get unemployment. I bought a printer for only fifty dollars, but I had to buy a fucking USB cable, which was another twenty-five dollars. So with all that and paper, it was eighty all together. It's a long term investment in my eyes, and I know I'll find something else within a week. I better. So it's not all fun and games here.

Oh some websites of interest...

http://www.searchfreefonts.com For different fonts to use on projects
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/links.htm#us%20slang In case you need to learn slang
http://craigslist.org This is, for various cities lucky to have it, a useful site to find out about jobs, stuff, personal ad type of crap..

Okay, time to get on with life - A.

Two Additional Scenes / Makin' "Bad" Movies/ Awesome Girl - Shit Luck

Soon, post like these won't make too much a difference. Seeing that 114 pages of dialog tends to be a bit long in the tooth, I may have to cut out some stuff. I don't see what I'd cut out. Most everything in there is important to the story. I do have a scene where Melanie discusses some of her previous jobs in television commercials. I suppose I can drop that. Watching El Matiachi last night I was a bit inspired by something Robert Rodriguez had said in the commentary. He said that every director has about 40 or so bad movies in him/her so it's good to get those out as soon as you can and on video. So, I may bust out a script that I did years ago, and have away at that. So, on the personal tip, I met someone last night who was probably the most awesome girl I've met in sometime and she seemed to be responsive to me. So of course she is leaving to go to school in two weeks. The same thing had happened with Rachel G. and I wrote a fucking screenplay about her which all but took me in ten different emotion paths. Oh well, what can I do... leave it the fuck alone, that's what.

Pretty Good Screenwriting Website

www.blackscreenplays.com

This is a site devoted to young black film makers, which is awesome, though seeing that I am not black, and less young daily, it's still a great resource and I'd highly recommend it. I still have a more things to work out with the original draft and am waiting for friends reactions... they have had tie to read it. I'll see I suppose.

Production Notes / Friendship

So, as I make minor revisions, I am also doing production notes. It's for me to figure out what type of shot and locations and all that. I finally got ahold of my friend who just got the script. A big help in this process has been from Michael W. Dean's book 30 Dollar Film School

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1592000673/qid=1092331763/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2453633-6779248?v=glance&s=books

I'd recommend it for those who are looking for the basic bare-bones film making. My project is a little bigger in process, but this book has been more than helpful. Anyhow, it's been a busy week, and not a good one for work. Though I do realize that I still have friends... I tend to forget that sometimes, it's the one thing no one should take for granted. Okay, for all of my none readers out there, take care and give me money! - Love, me.

Finished!

Okay, I'm done. It was certainly a labor of love... as in child labor. I'm just glad to have that process over with. I thought I'd gloat more, but my mind is jelly at the moment - PEACE

Already, Revisions.

I'm not quite done, and already am I looking to revise certain aspects of the script. This is of course before I time it out and split up scenes, so I'll be fucking up to my ass in writing revisions long before anything else. I have given it a time period, sort of a "period piece" if you will. 2001 was a good year for me, so there's that. Sometime in the late fall. I hope to hear from "my friend" soon. I am having another friend look it over right now. I'm damn near where I need to be however, and that feels good. I might tell a few people about the blog... maybe.

The End Is Near

My Goodness, I have been sitting in front of this little computer for lord knows how long. it is almost time for me to move around some. Today is suppose to be pretty warm. But enough shit about the weather. I'm finding myself choking more toward the end. I'm still waiting for my friend to reply back to me. I should have this done by today the latest. I want to be done with this part of it, though surely there will be pleanty of revisions. I don't know. I'll let you know... you know?

Ten Hours Of Drinking Coffee And Typing

Yesterday, I spent at least ten hours working on the screenplay. I'm just about finished with the party scene. took time to do a good Melanie scene, a final fight with Heather scene and caught up with a Gavin scene I wrote a couple of days ago. I did write a scene for later involving a flashback with Heather. I was very hard to tackle. As I had mentioned, a lot of these scenes was not unlike reliving them in my mind. I still see it as clearly as I did three years ago. The party scene I typed out was something that I had been wanting to do the first time out nad is pretty much the way I had invisioned it to be (this I typed out at the BOG). The characters of Michael Kramer and Miracle Alvin are pretty interesting and didn't have them thought out until recently, at least not in the way they are put across. Finally, I got a reply from my friend who told me that he couldn't get a good E-mail of the script. So I sent it to him via WordPad. Hopefully he'll get it soon. This project has been all consuming, so I hope that I finish the writing phase soon. I figure this will be about 125 pages, give or take. I need to look for a new job soon. I may get fired from this one.

End Of Week One

Seeing that I had been working on the screenplay for over a week now, this title seems to work as any, even if it my first entry. I felt that I needed an outlet to get my thoughts in print, hence why I have the blog; however, if anyone read will read it is the question. It's Only Art originally was to be filmed very quickly, and much unprepared in late 2002/early 2003. I had a few people in ind at the time, and it was all pretty much go. Then I crapped out in the process, shevling the project indefiantly. It was not one of my prouder moments. The original screen play was not too much different, but there was certainly a lot left to be desired. The character of Ivan, was a little too easy to like. As of late, I've been somewhat hard to get along with, as should Ivan. Heather is based on two girls, Julie M. and Rachel G. These weren't long relationships by any sense of the word, but they certainly had an adverse effect on me. The three principle girls in the screenplay (Alycia, Melanie and Cyndi) haven't changed much in respect, Alycia has been given much more depth, like her real life counterpart even though I haven't kept up with her whereabouts (She got married and last I heard had a child) The Melanie double lfet for the sunny climbs of Santa Cruz "Cyndi" is still in town, and as crazy as ever. I may try to contact her about it. To be honest, it's one of my favorite roles in the script. So far, I've only involved one other person so far, and I haven't heard from him this weekend. This person (I'm not naming names, due to liabilty reasons), has had some experience in film, so I am hopeing to rope him into this project of mine. I think this time out, It's Only Art may have a chance. I've learned my lesson last time trying to involve people in half assed projects. It isn't fair and I should have been planned from the start, so here I go. Thing can only go up from here, seeing that bottom is hard to stray from.