Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Moving!
Video Drone is now located here. Blogger/Blogspot has been giving me far too many issues lately.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Second drafts are the most work
So I've been working on my second draft, including refining the personalities of the principal cast, making scene flow a bit better, revising parts of the plot and cutting/adding a lot of scenes, and let me tell you this is probably the most work I've had to do on the script.
See, I ran into a few problems as I was looking over the first 15 pages or so. First off, while we get a good idea of our protagonist's character, we don't learn anything about his boss (a critical character) as far as personality and even a bit of history is concerned. I actually ran into the same problem with our protagonist's ex-girlfriend, which is a bit of a travesty since she's critically important to the plot and character development.
So naturally I had to take the metaphorical red pen to my script. I actually do all my writing on a computer since, well, I'm terrible for losing physical copies of documents. Plus it makes it a bit more easy to keep track of all my changes and ideas. It does, however, kinda bother me that this takes so long. I know it shouldn't, seeing as a lot of scripts have a huuuuuuge writing time, but hey, I'm allowed to be impatient as long as I'm working instead of complaining about it.
At the end of the second draft I may go into a bit more detail about the movie itself. I'm not keeping it hush-hush because I'm afraid the INTERNET WILL STEAL MY IDEAS (lord knows this blog isn't popular enough for that to be an issue) but more because at this point so much might change that I'd have to do script AND blog revisions and that's just a little silly.
See, I ran into a few problems as I was looking over the first 15 pages or so. First off, while we get a good idea of our protagonist's character, we don't learn anything about his boss (a critical character) as far as personality and even a bit of history is concerned. I actually ran into the same problem with our protagonist's ex-girlfriend, which is a bit of a travesty since she's critically important to the plot and character development.
So naturally I had to take the metaphorical red pen to my script. I actually do all my writing on a computer since, well, I'm terrible for losing physical copies of documents. Plus it makes it a bit more easy to keep track of all my changes and ideas. It does, however, kinda bother me that this takes so long. I know it shouldn't, seeing as a lot of scripts have a huuuuuuge writing time, but hey, I'm allowed to be impatient as long as I'm working instead of complaining about it.
At the end of the second draft I may go into a bit more detail about the movie itself. I'm not keeping it hush-hush because I'm afraid the INTERNET WILL STEAL MY IDEAS (lord knows this blog isn't popular enough for that to be an issue) but more because at this point so much might change that I'd have to do script AND blog revisions and that's just a little silly.
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