I was thinking of theme over the last couple days and how you could make a story out of brainstorming controversal themes in the common world.
I was thinking of a story about a high school run by a dumbass principle. The school focuses all of its attention to sports and after funding a massive high school stadium one kid acts out and tries to promote equality through out the school system and bring attention to the problems the school has.
I'm not sure of the rest of the story, but from what I wrote it has a debatable theme. Socialism. The goal is to promote equality through out the school system. Equal benefits and funding for every program. The princple obviously against that idea. Our main character for it. Also that ever disputed issue of who's better, athletes or intellectuals. The problems of the high school would be further explored. Things like bullying, racism, under age sex, and ageism. Kids can still make a difference.
And yea, jsut though I should write that down somewhere.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Writing 3 features at once.
Wow... I'm currently at the busiest I have ever been writing wise yet it doesn't seem to feel like much.
I'm writing 3 features right now. All of which are first drafts. Here is a logline and the genre of all 3 of them.
Revolt(drama)-A young man starts doing graffiti after his fathers company runs out of business due to the big box stores moving in. He is guided by a former graffiti writer who tried to take them on years prior but gave up in the process.
Grand junction(comedy/drama) a 26 year old man goes through a divorce and looses his job days apart and decides to move back to his hometown to get his shit together but an old high school crush begins to rekindle. But once his ex wife starts to have feelings for him again he must decide between the girl of his dream or the whore that divorced him.
The Getaway Driver(thriller/action)in 1972 texas a getawat driver ditches a psychotic killer during a failed robbery and heads to mexico. But he is then perservered by the psychotic killer a dedicated police officer who is looking for the killer and a bounty hunter hired to find the money stolen from the bank.
Right now i'm fancying The Getaway driver because it can have such a great potential ending and the first 10 pages is so compact yet exciting(in my opinion). Revolt i started today and got up to page 7, I managed to do a beat sheet but I have the ending down and i think I'm going to just go with the flow of things since that worked well for the other two features. Grand junction is currently in hiatus because of my concetration on the other two. It sits at 19 pages.
I'll be blasting out the first 24 pages of Revolt over the next couple of days. That makes 3 pages a day. I hope to get up to the inciting incident by the end of tommorow. Now if this isn't a passion for writing then I don;t know what is..
I'm writing 3 features right now. All of which are first drafts. Here is a logline and the genre of all 3 of them.
Revolt(drama)-A young man starts doing graffiti after his fathers company runs out of business due to the big box stores moving in. He is guided by a former graffiti writer who tried to take them on years prior but gave up in the process.
Grand junction(comedy/drama) a 26 year old man goes through a divorce and looses his job days apart and decides to move back to his hometown to get his shit together but an old high school crush begins to rekindle. But once his ex wife starts to have feelings for him again he must decide between the girl of his dream or the whore that divorced him.
The Getaway Driver(thriller/action)in 1972 texas a getawat driver ditches a psychotic killer during a failed robbery and heads to mexico. But he is then perservered by the psychotic killer a dedicated police officer who is looking for the killer and a bounty hunter hired to find the money stolen from the bank.
Right now i'm fancying The Getaway driver because it can have such a great potential ending and the first 10 pages is so compact yet exciting(in my opinion). Revolt i started today and got up to page 7, I managed to do a beat sheet but I have the ending down and i think I'm going to just go with the flow of things since that worked well for the other two features. Grand junction is currently in hiatus because of my concetration on the other two. It sits at 19 pages.
I'll be blasting out the first 24 pages of Revolt over the next couple of days. That makes 3 pages a day. I hope to get up to the inciting incident by the end of tommorow. Now if this isn't a passion for writing then I don;t know what is..
Sunday, November 8, 2009
4a.m posting
It's 4a/m and I thought I ought to reflect for a moment and express my weekend in a nutshell.
-Friday, I missed workshops because my alarm clock didnt work and I managed to sleep tell 3 p.m. I would then go on to do nothing else for the rest of the day. I truely am one lazy basterd lately. I also watched dazed and confused and Waiting... and got some ideas for my two side features i'm currently writing.
-saturday(aka yesterday, but since im still awake i count it as one full day.)-Woke up at 2ish. Went and checked out my soon to be new room out near renfrew(its cheap and has everything, plus its out of downtown and the money i say on the rent goes to a skytrain pass so i could finally start doing more freights. Its also in a busy commercial big box area so shopping is easy and the station is litterally a block away. )After that I took a stupidly long skytrain home, for a normally 15 minute ride it took an hour. What a fucking joke. Anyways i got home, did nothing of notable excitment for the last 10 hours.
sunday-I plan to get as much work done as possible. I have the wedding crashers thing. The beat sheat for sitcom. The desk jokes, and I will write up about the star wars scripts. I'm getting all this shit out of the way so i can finally focus on my newest feature which is a 1972 action period piece which i'm growing quite fond of.
Hopefully next week is more eventful then this one..
-Friday, I missed workshops because my alarm clock didnt work and I managed to sleep tell 3 p.m. I would then go on to do nothing else for the rest of the day. I truely am one lazy basterd lately. I also watched dazed and confused and Waiting... and got some ideas for my two side features i'm currently writing.
-saturday(aka yesterday, but since im still awake i count it as one full day.)-Woke up at 2ish. Went and checked out my soon to be new room out near renfrew(its cheap and has everything, plus its out of downtown and the money i say on the rent goes to a skytrain pass so i could finally start doing more freights. Its also in a busy commercial big box area so shopping is easy and the station is litterally a block away. )After that I took a stupidly long skytrain home, for a normally 15 minute ride it took an hour. What a fucking joke. Anyways i got home, did nothing of notable excitment for the last 10 hours.
sunday-I plan to get as much work done as possible. I have the wedding crashers thing. The beat sheat for sitcom. The desk jokes, and I will write up about the star wars scripts. I'm getting all this shit out of the way so i can finally focus on my newest feature which is a 1972 action period piece which i'm growing quite fond of.
Hopefully next week is more eventful then this one..
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Best Dream Ever
So i just woke up from one of the best most epicest dream's i think I've ever had. It was like a movie was going on and it never really had an explanation. Here is how it went.
-I'm chilling in my apartment when I hear a giant bomb go off. I go to see what it is and i find that downtown vancouver is getting bombed. Its raining, its stormy out and I'm confused as fuck. So i question someone and they tell me that its some kind of zombie apoloplyse. I get confused and then the zombies come in, they're normal looking people but all they wanna do is inflict paint to others. I try running until I see that all the major avenues are blocked off by massive army barricades. They say they are going to destroy the entire downtown to stop the infected. I'm still trying to make sense of all of this so i call up some random guy who I guess is my uncle and he tells me to go to the airport so we can fly out of the city into the mountains. Well somehow I escape the city to watch it get bombed. I get to the airport to see it is in massive panic. But my uncle has a bi-plane which we begin to take off with but a boeing 747 seems to be flying out of control. It ends flying right into our path, we lift off in time to avoid it and we watch as the plane crashes into 2 other planes docked at the airport and they explode. We fly over the downtown as we watch the city get annihlated. For some reason I have the typical family living in north van and i sympathize for them as we fly over north van into the mountains. I finally get an explanation for this. What apparently happened is some weird chemical ended up in nearly every de-salinization plant in the country. De salization is what makes tap water drinkable. And the chemical manages to turn off all primal instincts in the brain and kill them. All of them except for the primal instincts of madness. It doesn;t make sense but I guess this is a dream soo whatever. These people only have one characteristic about there appearance that defines them as infected. It's there eyes and if they are running towards you in rage then kill them.
Well this uncle of mine has the genious idea to fly to edmonton to chill at a pop factory, in his mind the de-salinizartion process is crossed out by the carbonated water. And this proves to make no sense but it ends up being true. We fly over cities as thye burn. I keep sympathizing for my fake family. Thinknig they are all dead by now. We get to edmonton its a ghost town. we end up in a pop factory. Another person inhabits it and says its true. He lived there for the last week. We live there for a week or two before the old man ventures off to find more food.. He doesnt come back. We go out looking for him. We find a river with him floating in it. We get raided by 20-30 rage victims and kill them all with an assualt rifle and a paddle.
We get the idea that we cant stay here alone like this. We need to find someplace to go to stay safe. Uncle gets the idea to go back to vancouver to see if the army handled everything. We get a hold of a radio and we hear they made a camp there in north vancouver which is guarding the non infected. A river supplies water, and they grow there own food. They also host a university which is the main safe haven. So we try to take the plane back but it wont start. So we end up in the parking lot getting chased by rage victims. We end up finding a really nice SUV which is like an army vehicle and we steal it. If the rage victims bite you well they are gonna fucking BITE YOU. And from reports over 50% of the population is infected. 40% died just from these people killing them. It made no sense whatsover. Other countries are jsut as worse. Africa I guess woudln;t recieve anything because thye dont desalinize their water they jsut drink it but I guess the radio tells us something else logical has happened and that the same statistic seems to be across the board. 2 months and no cure for this disease. And water is still not drinkable from the tap so you cant really find an underground lair to hide in unless its a tunnel.
So we on the road once we find something shocking. A bus filled with Rage victims..a rage victim is DRIVING the bus. Well they try and jump us, we kill them with a samurai sword which is oddly place din the back. And you can only kill these fuckers if you fuck up there skull. My uncle is the badass killing them while I drive against this massive bus. I end causuing the bus to wheeve into a gas station blowing it up. We kill baddys.
We end up back in vancouver. It's a ghost town. We find the university is actually a safe haven. And we havent even seen one single rage victim yet, its confusing, we get to the house to find my family hiding in the basement. We go to the university and they tell uis the rage victims are finally dieing from from the disease. It slowly infected them over the month and its finally killed them. But some of them are in the heighest state of RAGEEE. And wellthe university gets raided by them. We watch as thousand more die form these basterds. We kill them visciously using anything. We end up blowing a massive gasoline tank and causing some giant structure to fall on a bunch of them. We get airlifted out. And we manage to watch the city get once again destroyed. We fly over one last sot of the entire city, everything is a fucking mess. The end....
-I'm chilling in my apartment when I hear a giant bomb go off. I go to see what it is and i find that downtown vancouver is getting bombed. Its raining, its stormy out and I'm confused as fuck. So i question someone and they tell me that its some kind of zombie apoloplyse. I get confused and then the zombies come in, they're normal looking people but all they wanna do is inflict paint to others. I try running until I see that all the major avenues are blocked off by massive army barricades. They say they are going to destroy the entire downtown to stop the infected. I'm still trying to make sense of all of this so i call up some random guy who I guess is my uncle and he tells me to go to the airport so we can fly out of the city into the mountains. Well somehow I escape the city to watch it get bombed. I get to the airport to see it is in massive panic. But my uncle has a bi-plane which we begin to take off with but a boeing 747 seems to be flying out of control. It ends flying right into our path, we lift off in time to avoid it and we watch as the plane crashes into 2 other planes docked at the airport and they explode. We fly over the downtown as we watch the city get annihlated. For some reason I have the typical family living in north van and i sympathize for them as we fly over north van into the mountains. I finally get an explanation for this. What apparently happened is some weird chemical ended up in nearly every de-salinization plant in the country. De salization is what makes tap water drinkable. And the chemical manages to turn off all primal instincts in the brain and kill them. All of them except for the primal instincts of madness. It doesn;t make sense but I guess this is a dream soo whatever. These people only have one characteristic about there appearance that defines them as infected. It's there eyes and if they are running towards you in rage then kill them.
Well this uncle of mine has the genious idea to fly to edmonton to chill at a pop factory, in his mind the de-salinizartion process is crossed out by the carbonated water. And this proves to make no sense but it ends up being true. We fly over cities as thye burn. I keep sympathizing for my fake family. Thinknig they are all dead by now. We get to edmonton its a ghost town. we end up in a pop factory. Another person inhabits it and says its true. He lived there for the last week. We live there for a week or two before the old man ventures off to find more food.. He doesnt come back. We go out looking for him. We find a river with him floating in it. We get raided by 20-30 rage victims and kill them all with an assualt rifle and a paddle.
We get the idea that we cant stay here alone like this. We need to find someplace to go to stay safe. Uncle gets the idea to go back to vancouver to see if the army handled everything. We get a hold of a radio and we hear they made a camp there in north vancouver which is guarding the non infected. A river supplies water, and they grow there own food. They also host a university which is the main safe haven. So we try to take the plane back but it wont start. So we end up in the parking lot getting chased by rage victims. We end up finding a really nice SUV which is like an army vehicle and we steal it. If the rage victims bite you well they are gonna fucking BITE YOU. And from reports over 50% of the population is infected. 40% died just from these people killing them. It made no sense whatsover. Other countries are jsut as worse. Africa I guess woudln;t recieve anything because thye dont desalinize their water they jsut drink it but I guess the radio tells us something else logical has happened and that the same statistic seems to be across the board. 2 months and no cure for this disease. And water is still not drinkable from the tap so you cant really find an underground lair to hide in unless its a tunnel.
So we on the road once we find something shocking. A bus filled with Rage victims..a rage victim is DRIVING the bus. Well they try and jump us, we kill them with a samurai sword which is oddly place din the back. And you can only kill these fuckers if you fuck up there skull. My uncle is the badass killing them while I drive against this massive bus. I end causuing the bus to wheeve into a gas station blowing it up. We kill baddys.
We end up back in vancouver. It's a ghost town. We find the university is actually a safe haven. And we havent even seen one single rage victim yet, its confusing, we get to the house to find my family hiding in the basement. We go to the university and they tell uis the rage victims are finally dieing from from the disease. It slowly infected them over the month and its finally killed them. But some of them are in the heighest state of RAGEEE. And wellthe university gets raided by them. We watch as thousand more die form these basterds. We kill them visciously using anything. We end up blowing a massive gasoline tank and causing some giant structure to fall on a bunch of them. We get airlifted out. And we manage to watch the city get once again destroyed. We fly over one last sot of the entire city, everything is a fucking mess. The end....
Sunday, November 1, 2009
movie list October
Got a lot down this month. Here is what I've capped off my list.
-Rear Window
-North By Northwest
-2001-A space odyssey
-Aparently I watched Big...
-Back to the future
-Lethal weapon
-Ghostbusters.
Well actuallly thats only 7.. But I've watched a bunch of honorable mentions. Dirty Dozen, On The Waterfront, Indiana jones and the last crusade, Zombieland, In the heat of the night, I watched Forrest gump again for the first time since i was a kid and it was definetly an awesome flick, Taxi Driver, I watched it again and it was just as awesome, Travis Bickle is probably one of the best characters ever created, The Treasure of sierre madre, The Shining, and something else that i'm clearly forgetting.
I'll be in minor for next month though because of christmas and all.
-Rear Window
-North By Northwest
-2001-A space odyssey
-Aparently I watched Big...
-Back to the future
-Lethal weapon
-Ghostbusters.
Well actuallly thats only 7.. But I've watched a bunch of honorable mentions. Dirty Dozen, On The Waterfront, Indiana jones and the last crusade, Zombieland, In the heat of the night, I watched Forrest gump again for the first time since i was a kid and it was definetly an awesome flick, Taxi Driver, I watched it again and it was just as awesome, Travis Bickle is probably one of the best characters ever created, The Treasure of sierre madre, The Shining, and something else that i'm clearly forgetting.
I'll be in minor for next month though because of christmas and all.
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