Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday CATCH UP!!

So let’s catch up a little from Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Monday was a day to finish polishing the scripts for our individual movies, and we also had the opportunity to have some professional script developers check them. It was a great chance to see if we had what we needed for a successful movie, and it appeared as if they all enjoyed mine and said it had a nice twist and I really developed my characters well.

As the day continued, and as we moved in to Tuesday, we began focusing on storyboards. I am a very strong believer that story boards are essential to film making, and I think they speed up the process, keep you organized, etc etc. The list can go on forever. I learned a lot of great things from storyboarding, but I learned one thing VERY important that I guess I hadn’t realized before:

I can’t draw storyboards for shit. If I ever become a big shot in Hollywood, the first (and most important) person that I will hire for a movie, is someone that can draw. Why? Simple. I can’t.

So that was Tuesday’s lesson. Today is Wednesday, and we had an opportunity to draw some more, as well as learn some acting skills. We also had the opportunity for some more people to read our scripts and see how they enjoyed them. The man from Warner Brothers (the producer of “Grumpy Old Men”, etc) said the following:

“You need to get out there and sell your ideas. They are excellent. If you go out and try selling your pitch to 100 places and they all reject it, they are wrong. Move on to the 101st.”

:-)

For now, I think that pretty much sums things up. I’ll be figuring out my plans for this weekend tomorrow and whatnot. I’m not sure if Sondra and Dale (my parent’s friends) are coming out to LAX area this weekend to visit Mickey or next weekend, so I need to check that out. Either way, it should be neat and I’m looking forward to exploring more of the area.

I’ll be back to write more soon!