Michael Davis was pretty smart in making sure he got the directing gig and not just the script option for his Shoot 'Em Up.
I tried to upload his animations into this blog but it didn't work.
So two things:
1. How do I do that? I hit the ADD VIDEO button, then chose the file and clicked upload, but all it did was put a blank box in the body of the post. Like this:
2. If you're interested, check them out at the Creatve Screenwriting podcast on iTunes. To convince New Line he should direct his own script, he made animated storyboards of some of the action scenes. 17,000 drawings or something. Smart use of his time, I say.
By the way, his interview is interesting, too. After writing 35 screenplays and directing five movies, he almost left the business to be a teacher because he was frustrated he wasn't "making it."
35 screenplays. Five films directed. Worked for years in LA.
Important cautionary tale for us specsters. It's a long and brutal road ahead of us.
First one who makes it, send up a flare.
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But what constitutes "making it"?
I have no idea how the "Add Video" option works. I usually just go for linking to YouTube videos.
Making it is different things at different times. For me, making it is finishing this little short film and getting feedback from respectable citizens, or any human lifeform for that matter. If humans were ever satisfied, we'd have settled for radio shows and movies would never have been invented.
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