Brainstorm: Can I Write a Movie?

Back-of-Envelope: Notes from Convo with an Artist (1/17/10)

Things you need to know or do to write a movie, courtesy of my friend RAA over the phone (this is just a preliminary note tab, of no interest to readers, most likely):



Scene directions. Camera angle, etc. only if it is critical. ex, it was a "Victorian House." not gingerbread, etc.

Keeping budget in mind. How much for yours, RAA? $50-100 million, was what he was thinking. Wow!

Reading scripts. Read, read, read. Scenario Magazine. Look for the Silence of the Lambs one. There's a reason it won the Oscar for best script, you know. "Get the personal ones out of the way so you can move on." Read Horton Foote, Texan. To Kill a Mockingbird. Tender Mercies. The Trip to Bountiful. RAA: "Slow Dancing in the Snow," Three big MN pieces. "The Boy Who Could Talk to Whales" ; "Drill"

Must be in shorthand, not like the old days.