Archive for May, 2009

The First Draft

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I did it!  Finally…

I completed the first draft to my first ever attempt at a feature film tonight.  It’s 88 scenes in 81 pages.  3 acts of beauty.  There are A LOT of changes to be made still, but I’m happy to have the first draft done.  It’s pretty much a second draft since I had the whole thing written out as a treatment before I started putting it into script format.

The current working title is: “My Experience as an Intern in the Summer of 1985″

I’ll be sending it to a few people for critiques once I complete a few more drafts.  In the meantime I’ve got a few short ideas stuck in my head…

Now I just need to find somebody that can operate The Red or a 16mm Film Camera.

Did I quit?

Friday, May 8th, 2009

No, I’m still here.  There’s really nothing to talk about though.  Marathon is getting trashed by the festivals and I’m busy writing my new feature length script, “Touching Base”.  It’s a comedy based on the corporate offices of Southwestern Bell in 1985.  I’m currently holding a pace of 3-5 pages a day.  I’m finished with Act 1 and working through Act 2.

What’s my main character’s name, you ask?
Steve Rennier, of course. 

It looks like another short film might be in order this summer.  Probably about Monopoly or Wizards or something…