What are you working on today?
>>220632711I just remembered that I'm supposed to be writing a crime tv series to try and actually make some money
>>220632711I don't know how to write a screenplay and I don't know how to focus on anything for any length of time anymore. The second is more of a me being a bitch problem, but never the less.
I finally finished act one of my low budget innawoods screenplay.>>220633259There's some basic rules about formatting, writing slug lines, and grammar you have to follow, but after that it's a certain style of writing. Easiest way to pick it up is by reading other screenplays.
Does anyone know if we're supposed to still use "(CONT'D)" for dialog lines broken by action? Or does it not matter at all if I do/don't?
>>2206332591. Read some fucking scripts/screenplays2. That's a life problem, not a writing problem>>220633508The rules for screenwriting are guidelines. There are no hard rules. Pretty much everything you would think was a hard rule has been broken (probably multiple times) in a very successful script.Based on what I've read most recently, it seems like (cont) is used more for dialogue that is a single block of speaking, with concurrent action described part way through. So if there's a pause (ie. a character stops talking to go and turn off the tv and then continues) there wouldn't be a (cont)But I like I said...
>>220633259Don't bother. Screenwriters, at least in Hollywood, won't be a thing in a few years due to AI.
>>220633609Thanks. Fwiw, I did buy "The Hollywood Standard" and it does have a section on the "CONT'D" issue, but it basically just says "do whatever lol"
>>220633675What can’t that be said of, not jokingHollywood is probably the white-collar place most resilient to AI because of its unions like WGA actually being vaguely powerful and the recent Academy rules against AI preserving some niche for humans even as ads and the like, already slop, will surely turn to AI slop
>>220633771It's funny because it's so hard to predict the future at the moment.Like 10 years ago, predicting the next 5 years was straightforward (a rise in low budget productions due to more indie filmmakers who graduated from the dslr revolution, along with a generation of people used to making low effort youtube videos etc etc), and predicting 10 years was hazy but getting the general ideas was still there (lower theatre attendance due to lower attention spans from social media and a rise in streaming).Today, 5 years is a crapshoot and 10 years is impossible. The tech is advancing way too fast and it's unclear what's actually appealing to audiences. You can make a simple prediction like a rise in vidya slop. But then ai completely shatters it because you have to factor how long it's going to be before we get fully ai films that are watchable and enjoyable, versus how long before they become mainstream, versus what governments/industries will do to curb ai. And all of that directly impacts the state of cinema.There's not gonna be a rise in hollywood vidya slop if hollywood ceases to exist. Unions can't ban ai if "content creators" on youtube/tiktok/whatever have more viewers and make more money from ai films
>Resourceshttps://thescriptsavant.com/movies.html - A library of scripts (some anon tried the "service" though and said it was a scam)http://www.wordplayer.com/ - Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott's old bloghttp://www.thefutoncritic.com/devwatch/https://una.pressbooks.pub/fade-in/>Some Good Scriptshttps://thescriptsavant.com/movies/Chinatown.pdfhttps://thescriptsavant.com/movies/Die_Hard.pdfhttps://thescriptsavant.com/movies/Inception.pdfhttps://thescriptsavant.com/movies/Avatar.pdfhttps://thescriptsavant.com/movies/Topiary_Carruth.pdf>Recommended Books (by some anons)1. "Writing Screenplays That Sell" by Michael Haugea good guide on structuring screenplays, developing characters, using themes, and the business2. "The Hollywood Standard" by Christopher Rileydefinitive script formatting guide
>>220633964I think they will try to push this "AI" into everything but people will reject it. It will always be niche compared to real actors doing real things captured on a film camera. It will ultimately lead to a reversion where people reject digital for being associated with AI slop and go back to celluloid and practical effects, that will be the new (old) renaissance.
Where do you get your ideas?
>>220634227There's good ideas everywhereBut mostly: green text posts on this site
>>220634458What boards?
lets say you somehow make the screenplay?Now what? Send it to ((((hollywood))))? Who the fuck in hollywood is checking random screenplays they get through email? If they did have it open they’d get spammed by thousands of jeets with AI screenplays so they aint reading what you send. How the fuck would you even find a hollywood person online to send your screenplays?Face it, screen writing is pointless. You either are in that circle with connections or you are a goy to them. Even if you did the impossible they would want to change it to put as many blacks and gays as possible while making the females girlbosses and a trump like villain shoved in there
>>220634628Multiple options:>write low budget short films that you can pitch/sell/collaborate on with budding filmmakers>write lower budget shorts that you can film yourself>enter script competitions>get a job on productions/sets/media companies and try and try to open doors on the off-chance an opportunity arises to show off your script>learn how to make films and then blow your savings making a feature film yourselfAll of these options require you to actually do something instead of just bitching about how pointless and impossible it is though
>>220634620/g/, /fit/, /adv/, /sp/, /out/, and occasionally /biz/ but mostly when anons are off-topic postingI'm not getting full story ideas from posts, just ideas for something that could be interesting in a movie. I note it down. Maybe later some more ideas to develop around it will come to me.I got some AI horror/suspense ideas from /g/Sometimes I'll see an /an/ webm and be like... wtf, I bet there's a story behind that animal
>>220634809Based.
Writing a crime comedy. I think it's simultaneously the best and worst thing I've written. Some propulsive action sequences with great imagery and ideas held together with some of the worst exposition I've ever typed. I'm passionate about the idea but it's gonna take a lot of reworking to make cohesive. It's my sixth script overall and my fourth feature and I truly still feel like I know fuck all about screenwriting. Kind of embarrasing. Maybe I'm delusional with this shit. FML. Why did Hollywood fill me with these pipedreams. I feel like a half-retarded infant saying I'm gonna be president/astronaut
>>220632711I'm working on the next Eric kripke script. It involves a guy who is down on his luck after fascists beat him up and took his lunch money but then he says dickshit cumblob and everyone clapped. Next scene he gets revenge by sneaking into the fascists sex dungeon(where they have gay sex all the time) and gets revenge by saying cum dicky flicky prick mcdickle and they all die and everyone clapped. That's the opening act.super excited to start filming next week.
>Fantasized about pitching my movie to a big producer again
>>220635783You can only do that if you're established.Otherwise, you have to write it as a spec script first.
>>220635831>Implying I can get my spec scripts read/produced
>>220632711making ai write everyboy loves raymond scripts
I'm still working on that Horror/Fantasy/Sci-fi film. Still not making the progress of the other ones.
A short horror film based on an old horror radio drama from the 1930's.
>>220638541That alone sounds interesting. Paiting, dude. I hope you get your stuff read and sold.
>>220638569Thank you, and I wish you well on all of your projects as well!
>>220638614Ayyyy, appreciate you.
