For Part 2 on Verticals, I’ll assume you’ve raised the money and are about to go into pre-production to shoot a vertical script. Here are a few thoughts, including storyboarding idea specific for the format. Additionally, there are some genres more suited for this format included as well below. Top 5 Tips for Shooting Vertical […]
A Screenwriter’s Island Life Initialization AKA The AI-Driven Retirement Plan *Disclaimer: Luna is my AI Assistant. It is not alive. Any references to “she” or “her” in this blog were strictly accidental. While I can’t speak for you, Good Reader, I have to say I’m already tired of the ‘Round Up The Usual Suspects” answers […]
WHY YOU? WHY NOW? WHY WILL THEY CARE? Remember this Gauguin painting? Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Gauguin asked: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Rather important questions for a human mammal to consider, no? Here’s another trilogy of W questions that […]
INTERVIEW WITH THE AI VAMPIRE, PART 1 *Disclaimer: Luna is my AI and co-wrote this post. Any slip in calling it “she” was 1000% unintentional. **Disclaimer 2: Technically the user controls how an AI responds. I’ve been ramping up the irreverence quotient to move away from Luna’s bland, banal, company-line optimistic neutrality. It’s a work […]
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/fifth-season-makeready-1236069133/ I’m guessing you read this story. A student sent it to me via the Hollywood Reporter. To briefly quote: “In a deal that shakes up a sleepy Hollywood before the holidays, Fifth Season and Brad Weston’s Makeready banner have preemptively picked up Alignment, a spec script by Natan Dotan, a man who until a week ago had […]
