ezdreamer

Waiting by the sea for the tide to recede.

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

@Zernerlaw And I don't care about this franchise but it needs to reboot to its low budget roots. A thirty million dollar exploitation slasher movie is a waste of profit making opportunity among other things.

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

@Zernerlaw What this tells me is to hold on to the IP for dear life. And don't even mention the title till everything is copywrited and registered.
If you have high quality material a trip to a guy like Zernow is essential to figure out exactly ... what is copywriteable.
That's my play

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

@CramerTracker They wouldn't put any meat in the sandwich. Not such a mystery.

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

@Matt_Pinner Apply suntan oil.

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

@elonmusk No. It's always been unreadable.

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

@RealEmirHan Tuesday Weld
Pretty Poison 1968

[Bill Hunt @BillHuntBits]

I don’t know how I missed this, but of course streaming services no longer want to report subscriber numbers. There simply aren’t any more subscribers. Every region on the planet has a maximum number of TV households. In the US it’s ≈ 125 million. That’s your pie, and you’ve gotta share it with all the other streaming services. Plus you have to buy or build (and maintain) all of that cloud infrastructure locally and manage regional rights issues. Good luck business model!
https://t.co/2WoOMjsTKb

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

@JGoularas @JustineBateman Every person that Google (and the rest) keeps profiles of. and then sell this info to advertisers....
Should receive a percentage, say 35, of said revenues every 6 months.
You know, redistribute the money...

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

@JustineBateman He is thieving hipster filth who thinks he is cool.
No rules for cool.
Hud, 1963

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

@greg16676935420 We're Irish. We don't give a damn about your American tits.

[Daily Dose of Philosophy @PhilosophyDose_]

Golden rule of life: Never chase, Never beg and Never expect.

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

@woofknight That's most of us, in my experience.

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

@ParrotGab @phillipstribune @aalong64 @mattzollerseitz You probably never will.

[EDDIE CHENG @ecomEddie]

If you don't understand how to negotiate, you'll never be truly wealthy.

Here's how to always get what you want (according to the FBI’s former top kidnapping negotiator):

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

Remember folkes, Liam didn't think his way into show biz, He fucked his way in.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Liam Neeson says the film industry ‘needs’ Kevin Spacey ‘and misses him greatly’

“Kevin is a good man and a man of character … He is also one of our finest artists in the theatre and on camera”

(via @Telegraph)

[Tom Vaughan @storyandplot]

Screenwriting notes often come in the language of emotion rather than craft.

- I liked this. I didn't like this.
- If I were you, I would do this...

It's up to us to determine what's actually wrong.

Here are 15 common notes and their most likely structural fix. 👇

1. It took too long to get started.

The inciting incident is coming too late.

2. It starts slow.

The writer is taking the “ordinary” in the “ordinary world” too literally.

3. I didn’t care about the characters.

Act 1 needs work. Give special attention to the relationships and the protagonist's emotional desires.

4. It took too long to know what it was about.

The central dramatic question comes too late.

5. It felt like two different movies.

The dramatic question changes.

6. It felt too simple.

The supporting characters and subplots aren't bringing anything to the party.

7. It just seems to plod along.

All plot, no story and/or not enough great scenes.

8. It started well but dragged as it went on.

Weak midpoint.

9. It’s slow.

Not enough great scenes and/or a failure in scene-to-scene narrative momentum.

10. It’s all over the place.

The story is not clearly defined, and/or the plot lacks story discipline.

11. I don't know what this is about.

The story is not clearly defined, and/or the plot lacks story discipline.

12. Nothing is unique here.

You lack a concept that generates great scenes.

13. You didn't take advantage of your own idea.

You have a concept, but you either lack great scenes or they're too generic and unrelated to the concept.

14. It ended too quickly.

Act 3 was too short and unsatisfying.

15. The ending wasn’t satisfying.

All plot, no story, and/or Act 3 wasn’t an answer/response to Act 1.

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These aren't definitive; they're just the first place to look.

There are endless variations to all kinds of notes, and the skill comes from identifying the source problem.

But this is why we learn story structure. It's not just about writing that first draft.

It's about knowing how to fix what isn't working.

That's a wrap for this post!

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[Tom Vaughan @storyandplot]

There will never, ever be a better way to get your screenwriting read than a well-connected associate vouching for you and recommending you.

This is the ultimate pre-scrutiny.

Even then, you're still going to want a great logline.

[Tom Vaughan @storyandplot]

Be decisive in your screenwriting. Make choices. About story, plot, characters, and moments. Everything.

Be specific and confident.

Every strong choice makes each subsequent choice easier because it eliminates millions of other choices.

It's the non-choices that drag you down.

[ezdreamer @ezdreamzz]

@GunnerGale @RogerCorman Roger Cormans name is going to be forever in front of movies lovers eyes ALOT more than any of us.
Godspeed.