Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Imrpovise.
You start out with an idea, you transform the idea in your head, the more you think about it the more ideas you get, the more ideas you get the more the story expands. You do this until you know alll the characters, the conflict between them, and what needs to be resolved in the end. Then you find a meaning to all of it. Don't bother to write any of this down, you will just throw it away. Now, after about a month of thinking, you start writing it down, scene for scene, line for line, improvising everything from what you've gathered over the ideas in your head. You lock yourself in a small room, you wait until it starts raining, you turn on some music for the tone, then you don't stop until everything works and everything is finished.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Finished Broken Home
Broken Home-Thriller, Drama
I wrote the original outline before christmas on my blog here. It was pretty weak but after a few ffp classes I made it into something interesting and dynamic. Suprisingly I stayed with the same theme and story style and archs, and throughout each rewrite of the outline I realized how malleable the plot was due to the strong chracters and sticking to the same themes and genre.
Now I just finished it today :3, I'm doing a full read through right now before sending it into Katt for the ffp class. I'm gonna post some of the crazy shit to be expected from it.
-Car accident, wife is practically dead infront of our protagonist Frank right in front of him, he can't do anything about it.
-Shelby get's punched/knocked out by the antagonis(Vincent) which starts the 2nd act.
-Mick gets a pen in his arm.
-A dog gets impaled by a broken hockey stick offscreen for barking too much.
-Heather(The youngest, 11 years old) gets beaten up by Vincent off screen while the entire family hears it and can't do a damn thing about it.
-Mick gets his ass thrown out a window during one hell of a beating.
-Frank gets stabbed and left with an Unconcious Heather in a now burning house.
-Shay gets hit, followed by Mick baseball swinging a firepoker into the side of Vincent's head. He doesn't die of course.
-Shelby saves Frank by throwing him off the roof right before the hous eis completely engulfed in flames.
-Shay nearly falls through the floor of the second level of the barn, below is an old rusted spike harrow(Evil piece of machinery with lots of spikes and such. She escapes in a Indiana Jones-esque style.
-Epic fight on third level of Barn with Mick, Shay and Vincent, Vincent nearly gets hanged but falls down onto the Harrows.
I rewrote the third act because a lot of it lacked the action essential to make a good thriller. I think the new third act works a lot better. I tried to get everything in there, focus objects, ticking clocks, progressive complications, breathing room(To a degree), and some reality to all of it.
I wrote the original outline before christmas on my blog here. It was pretty weak but after a few ffp classes I made it into something interesting and dynamic. Suprisingly I stayed with the same theme and story style and archs, and throughout each rewrite of the outline I realized how malleable the plot was due to the strong chracters and sticking to the same themes and genre.
Now I just finished it today :3, I'm doing a full read through right now before sending it into Katt for the ffp class. I'm gonna post some of the crazy shit to be expected from it.
-Car accident, wife is practically dead infront of our protagonist Frank right in front of him, he can't do anything about it.
-Shelby get's punched/knocked out by the antagonis(Vincent) which starts the 2nd act.
-Mick gets a pen in his arm.
-A dog gets impaled by a broken hockey stick offscreen for barking too much.
-Heather(The youngest, 11 years old) gets beaten up by Vincent off screen while the entire family hears it and can't do a damn thing about it.
-Mick gets his ass thrown out a window during one hell of a beating.
-Frank gets stabbed and left with an Unconcious Heather in a now burning house.
-Shay gets hit, followed by Mick baseball swinging a firepoker into the side of Vincent's head. He doesn't die of course.
-Shelby saves Frank by throwing him off the roof right before the hous eis completely engulfed in flames.
-Shay nearly falls through the floor of the second level of the barn, below is an old rusted spike harrow(Evil piece of machinery with lots of spikes and such. She escapes in a Indiana Jones-esque style.
-Epic fight on third level of Barn with Mick, Shay and Vincent, Vincent nearly gets hanged but falls down onto the Harrows.
I rewrote the third act because a lot of it lacked the action essential to make a good thriller. I think the new third act works a lot better. I tried to get everything in there, focus objects, ticking clocks, progressive complications, breathing room(To a degree), and some reality to all of it.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
To make a Film, Or to not make a film
I'm moving back to grande Prairie the day after I graduate. My reasoning, free rent, free food, I miss my cat, and while basking in free rent and food I can concentrate on saving money and paying off my credit card, grandpa and start on paying off my schooling. I'm praying to god that I can get a decent paying full time job within the week I get back. This means i'm gonna have to dedicate myself to searching in a city that is in a bit of a job slump... But anyways, if the job thing works out then I'll be straight working all summer. Except for Warped tour, which will be placed in md august in Edmonton. I'll probably stay 2-3 days extra to enjoy E-Town and hang out with ol Gregolas.
So anyways, once September comes I've decided to make a plan for the year of 2011. Now here is my idea
1.-Stay in Grande Prairie, Rustle some friends together and work on a feature film that I have laid out over the winter. While doing so i'll work part time and try and master the art of directing with the help of some established friends.(I'm also considering Acting in this feature idea..)
2.Move back to Vancouver and get a 1 bedroom apartment or basement suite. Work full time in an industry that I find fitting(I really wanna get into the Courier business. I would also settle for anything relating to movies.) I would be writting scripts and work on my directing abilities. Get a cat and gather a savings that will go towards a possible quest to L.A once the time and funds come together.
3. Start doing crack after failing as a writer. Manage to make a business out of crack. Sell it, make it... End up getting arrested or raped by coke dealers who claim the city as their turf.
4.Move to Banff and become a lift jockey.
5.Consider becoming a travelling graffiti artist living off gambling winnings.
6.Sell a kidney in order to merry a woman to impress her father so I could get a job at his factory...
So anyways, once September comes I've decided to make a plan for the year of 2011. Now here is my idea
1.-Stay in Grande Prairie, Rustle some friends together and work on a feature film that I have laid out over the winter. While doing so i'll work part time and try and master the art of directing with the help of some established friends.(I'm also considering Acting in this feature idea..)
2.Move back to Vancouver and get a 1 bedroom apartment or basement suite. Work full time in an industry that I find fitting(I really wanna get into the Courier business. I would also settle for anything relating to movies.) I would be writting scripts and work on my directing abilities. Get a cat and gather a savings that will go towards a possible quest to L.A once the time and funds come together.
3. Start doing crack after failing as a writer. Manage to make a business out of crack. Sell it, make it... End up getting arrested or raped by coke dealers who claim the city as their turf.
4.Move to Banff and become a lift jockey.
5.Consider becoming a travelling graffiti artist living off gambling winnings.
6.Sell a kidney in order to merry a woman to impress her father so I could get a job at his factory...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Prime Land
Prime Land-A modern day setting placed within a classic western story.
A sadistic gambling rancher who just so happens to own a retarded amount of land on the edge of the farmland of northern canada wants the last available piece of land. Which belongs to A young man who looks way too sophisticated to be a farmer, but he is, and he owns the best known land in the district, and one of the biggest lots. The rancher offers a large sum of land for the land, one that would make most farmers cry. But the farmer says he will never sell the land. 15 years ago this farm used to be a ranch and it used to be all trees. But one day during a storm the forst started on fire. In a desperate effort to save the cattle that grazed in the forest the owner of the farm(The farmer in the rest of the story) tried to save them and also save some of his equipment. Unfortunatly he died during the fire and most of his cattle died aswell. The farmers dad left the farm to his son, who was a year away from becoming a doctor and recently became a father and a husband. The farm has been within his family for the last 150 years. Despite pressure from his wife, the farmer decided to maintain the farm. The wife stayed by his side because he loved him. But after 5 years of the farmer trying to transform the forest that burnt to the ground into a prime plot of farmland the wife became annoyed with the lifestyle and divorced him. The farmer nearly quit, but he stuck with it. This land belongs to the family and it will always belong to the family. So back to modern day. The farmer begins to find signs of sabotage to his farm. He thinks very little of it until his tractor catches on fire. He immeditly gets police involved to investigate the rancher but the rancher has no signs of involvement. The farmer knew it was him so he attacks back and releases a massive amount of cattle which causes an accident. The rancher is sued and tries to trace it back to the farmer but he made it look like the cows caused the whole escape. The farmer get's a restraining order put on the Rancher. But to do so he meets back with his wife who studied law. his wife sees what he's doing and tells him to stop. The farmer brings her to the land and again she pursaudes him to sell the land and do what he was meant to do. Even if the land has been in the family for such a long time doesn't mean it has to continue being that way. Tradition must end, and normally a fire should end it. The farmer offers to think about it. They eventually reconsile there differences and the next morning the farmer goes to sign the papers to hand over the farm but on the way the Rancher plotted to destroy the land, which iis actually revealed by one of the cronnies of the rancher to be the second time he has done this(He started the fire which killed the father.) The cronnie denies doing it. so the rancher does it himself. The farmer sees this and doesn't bother to try and save the farm, instead he runs with his wife. They get away, the farm is destroyed. The cronnie rats out the rancher. And the Farmer moves away...
A sadistic gambling rancher who just so happens to own a retarded amount of land on the edge of the farmland of northern canada wants the last available piece of land. Which belongs to A young man who looks way too sophisticated to be a farmer, but he is, and he owns the best known land in the district, and one of the biggest lots. The rancher offers a large sum of land for the land, one that would make most farmers cry. But the farmer says he will never sell the land. 15 years ago this farm used to be a ranch and it used to be all trees. But one day during a storm the forst started on fire. In a desperate effort to save the cattle that grazed in the forest the owner of the farm(The farmer in the rest of the story) tried to save them and also save some of his equipment. Unfortunatly he died during the fire and most of his cattle died aswell. The farmers dad left the farm to his son, who was a year away from becoming a doctor and recently became a father and a husband. The farm has been within his family for the last 150 years. Despite pressure from his wife, the farmer decided to maintain the farm. The wife stayed by his side because he loved him. But after 5 years of the farmer trying to transform the forest that burnt to the ground into a prime plot of farmland the wife became annoyed with the lifestyle and divorced him. The farmer nearly quit, but he stuck with it. This land belongs to the family and it will always belong to the family. So back to modern day. The farmer begins to find signs of sabotage to his farm. He thinks very little of it until his tractor catches on fire. He immeditly gets police involved to investigate the rancher but the rancher has no signs of involvement. The farmer knew it was him so he attacks back and releases a massive amount of cattle which causes an accident. The rancher is sued and tries to trace it back to the farmer but he made it look like the cows caused the whole escape. The farmer get's a restraining order put on the Rancher. But to do so he meets back with his wife who studied law. his wife sees what he's doing and tells him to stop. The farmer brings her to the land and again she pursaudes him to sell the land and do what he was meant to do. Even if the land has been in the family for such a long time doesn't mean it has to continue being that way. Tradition must end, and normally a fire should end it. The farmer offers to think about it. They eventually reconsile there differences and the next morning the farmer goes to sign the papers to hand over the farm but on the way the Rancher plotted to destroy the land, which iis actually revealed by one of the cronnies of the rancher to be the second time he has done this(He started the fire which killed the father.) The cronnie denies doing it. so the rancher does it himself. The farmer sees this and doesn't bother to try and save the farm, instead he runs with his wife. They get away, the farm is destroyed. The cronnie rats out the rancher. And the Farmer moves away...
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Gettin on the Bandwagon
I was reading a post on /x/ about some guy who used to work for the NYC transit system who aparently witnessed "Mole People" in some of the abandoned subway systems in New York. I read parts of the story and realized that I could sort of take some of the elements and make a Blair Witch/Paranormal Activity styled horror movie.
The premise of my idea would be like this. A subway worker finds a camera in an empty hallway near one of the oldest lines of the NYC system. He watches the video which depicts the journey of a couple of kids who went out looking for these Molemen. Well, glory be, they found the Molemen, and Glory be, the Molemen aren't very kind, savages if you will, the details are all really blurry. So this Subway worker gets a team together to go look for it, as it turns out some people in the Subway industry don't want tog et police and tabloids involved because they think that having "Molemen" in the transit system secretly killing people could possibly cause some panic. So, the top officials demand that they bring a small crew to investigate. So they do, group tension and all that great stuff, but curiousity gets them in situitions that cause them to give up hope after awhile, they start to think the camera is jsut a prank so that people could start specualting about the stupid idea of "Molemen". The main guy who found the camera has a heightened sense of curiousity, and he goes out alone. He finds an old map off one of the oldest workers in the system and starts tearing down areas that he though were abandoned and destroye.d He finds unthinkable things, then he stumbles upon the "Molemen" palace. Something similiar to what OLD New York looked like in Futurama. Well, mister I'm so fucknig curious get's himself captured and he finds the kids aswell. Some of them just so happen to be dead. Yea typical, but hey, we need death. But the "Molemen" turn out to be fucking crazy lunatics who resent the roles of everyday society and created a secret society of their own in this underworld. to say the least, they're fucking retarded. So somehow the camera guy escapes in an epic fashion, gets out of the tunnels, and gets to the ground level.
It ends with him sending the tape to every newspaper in the city. Have it end on that.
I know it all sounds cliche. But I think there is a way to make such a movie enjoyable and feel real. That story to me felt very real, the narrative would be simple. And the thing lacking in the film industry are films about possible REAL things and exploring them. Paranormal Activity was a stupid film and only stupid people thought it was great. Blair Witch in my opinion was amazing because of how it emoted fear, it felt real, and when I first seen it I thought it was real. It made me hate camping to such an unbelievable degree. But the thing that made it real was exploring an uknown world and meeting uknown beasts. Molemen are legends of folklore, but they're reasonable folklore tales because it's eeasy to understand why someone would live underground, and it's easy to find a place to do it in the scattered tunnels of the subway system.
But hey, My ideas have failed before. This might just be another thing i hang on the shelf for myself to think about.
The premise of my idea would be like this. A subway worker finds a camera in an empty hallway near one of the oldest lines of the NYC system. He watches the video which depicts the journey of a couple of kids who went out looking for these Molemen. Well, glory be, they found the Molemen, and Glory be, the Molemen aren't very kind, savages if you will, the details are all really blurry. So this Subway worker gets a team together to go look for it, as it turns out some people in the Subway industry don't want tog et police and tabloids involved because they think that having "Molemen" in the transit system secretly killing people could possibly cause some panic. So, the top officials demand that they bring a small crew to investigate. So they do, group tension and all that great stuff, but curiousity gets them in situitions that cause them to give up hope after awhile, they start to think the camera is jsut a prank so that people could start specualting about the stupid idea of "Molemen". The main guy who found the camera has a heightened sense of curiousity, and he goes out alone. He finds an old map off one of the oldest workers in the system and starts tearing down areas that he though were abandoned and destroye.d He finds unthinkable things, then he stumbles upon the "Molemen" palace. Something similiar to what OLD New York looked like in Futurama. Well, mister I'm so fucknig curious get's himself captured and he finds the kids aswell. Some of them just so happen to be dead. Yea typical, but hey, we need death. But the "Molemen" turn out to be fucking crazy lunatics who resent the roles of everyday society and created a secret society of their own in this underworld. to say the least, they're fucking retarded. So somehow the camera guy escapes in an epic fashion, gets out of the tunnels, and gets to the ground level.
It ends with him sending the tape to every newspaper in the city. Have it end on that.
I know it all sounds cliche. But I think there is a way to make such a movie enjoyable and feel real. That story to me felt very real, the narrative would be simple. And the thing lacking in the film industry are films about possible REAL things and exploring them. Paranormal Activity was a stupid film and only stupid people thought it was great. Blair Witch in my opinion was amazing because of how it emoted fear, it felt real, and when I first seen it I thought it was real. It made me hate camping to such an unbelievable degree. But the thing that made it real was exploring an uknown world and meeting uknown beasts. Molemen are legends of folklore, but they're reasonable folklore tales because it's eeasy to understand why someone would live underground, and it's easy to find a place to do it in the scattered tunnels of the subway system.
But hey, My ideas have failed before. This might just be another thing i hang on the shelf for myself to think about.
Friday, February 5, 2010
The Wandering Jew
I've decided to right a novel. It's about the Wandering Jew mentioned in Christian folklore.
Here is a rough synopsis I wrote out in an msn conversation. I'm definetly going to work in this more. Since it is folk-lore, I can make up some crazy shit for it.
He aparently spat on jesus during the crucifix and was hexxed to wander the earth until the second coming of christ.
I plan to write it as if I were him. I'd be traveling, not working but stealing, and I am unable to die because of my hex. I do not age. But no matter who I try and love, i know that they will die in my existance and I will have to suffer.
So I go through life, living off of nature. traveling, looking for a way to spend my time tell christ comes back to clusterfuck the earth. But while on my journey I become deeply religious by seeing various events. I turn into a preacher, and then I travel the world preeching, and then people try to kill me. They fail, and my secret gets out that I'm the hexxed jew.
I go into Exile, and wait, praising jesus. i watch as sociery goes into a downfall, people stop caring about religion, they think death is inevitable and that heaven doesn't exist. In the end I'm the only one left to believe in Jesus. and when he comes back. He forgives me.
Here is a rough synopsis I wrote out in an msn conversation. I'm definetly going to work in this more. Since it is folk-lore, I can make up some crazy shit for it.
He aparently spat on jesus during the crucifix and was hexxed to wander the earth until the second coming of christ.
I plan to write it as if I were him. I'd be traveling, not working but stealing, and I am unable to die because of my hex. I do not age. But no matter who I try and love, i know that they will die in my existance and I will have to suffer.
So I go through life, living off of nature. traveling, looking for a way to spend my time tell christ comes back to clusterfuck the earth. But while on my journey I become deeply religious by seeing various events. I turn into a preacher, and then I travel the world preeching, and then people try to kill me. They fail, and my secret gets out that I'm the hexxed jew.
I go into Exile, and wait, praising jesus. i watch as sociery goes into a downfall, people stop caring about religion, they think death is inevitable and that heaven doesn't exist. In the end I'm the only one left to believe in Jesus. and when he comes back. He forgives me.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
After School
Time to put the plan out on paper!
So, things have changed from my original plan which I laid out before christmas. The plan was to mvoe in with Alex after School and start working on scripts and such. But things have changed and stuff has become complicated.
So new plan after Graduation-Move back to G.P to chill and live off free rent for 2 months and finish 2 scripts.(Hopefully I'll have The Getaway Driver done by then.. Sigh) Then move back to Vancouver. Get full time job working something exciting(NOT COOKING) and make decent money(15$ an hour?). Work for a year and save up enough to go to holywood for a month in order to do some mass pitching. Hopefully have 6 feature scripts done by then. I'd fucking love to be a Cab Driver or have some kind of position where I drive a bunch. i love traveling, even if it a couple blocks.
And this vacation is also too go to 2 graduations on my beloved cousins. And to see my cat. and to paint copious amounts of trains. And to see the mother, the brother, and all the old friends.
Other updates on the old life of Cody Bisson-I'm coommited to painting again. It makes me happy and I enjoy being happy. Unfortunatly I think I have Bed bugs. Which blows menanites.
So, things have changed from my original plan which I laid out before christmas. The plan was to mvoe in with Alex after School and start working on scripts and such. But things have changed and stuff has become complicated.
So new plan after Graduation-Move back to G.P to chill and live off free rent for 2 months and finish 2 scripts.(Hopefully I'll have The Getaway Driver done by then.. Sigh) Then move back to Vancouver. Get full time job working something exciting(NOT COOKING) and make decent money(15$ an hour?). Work for a year and save up enough to go to holywood for a month in order to do some mass pitching. Hopefully have 6 feature scripts done by then. I'd fucking love to be a Cab Driver or have some kind of position where I drive a bunch. i love traveling, even if it a couple blocks.
And this vacation is also too go to 2 graduations on my beloved cousins. And to see my cat. and to paint copious amounts of trains. And to see the mother, the brother, and all the old friends.
Other updates on the old life of Cody Bisson-I'm coommited to painting again. It makes me happy and I enjoy being happy. Unfortunatly I think I have Bed bugs. Which blows menanites.
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