The Travels of My Script
Well this week... I did another script reading... hell I did 2 of them. I met a bunch of cool people who I would love to thank... Keanen (thats right... I can't spell), Ashley, Steph, Lauren... guy whos name I don't remember... girl who didn't get introduced to me (wich is weird... since it is my house). I also have to thank Todd (who as producer organised the whole thing) and Dave (who was nice enough to come... he is tons of fun). It went well... but to be honest, I felt that there were points where we lulled... and not just because we couldn't do it once (with feeling) with out taking a small talking break.
This got me thinking, it may be time for some huge revisions on the script. So I started editing my script down. I cut out crap. I added crap. I now added new twists... well, as many twists as a character peice can have... so the next time any one (other than me) reads the script it should be (bigger) and better than before. I will give you a hint... I will be adding a scene that I removed before.
But with all these changes I figure I should give you an idea of where my script has been.
It started off as a drunken dream... actually it started off as a bunch of funny sayings written down in my "World Perspectives" class. It was all down hill from there, as I started to write them into scripts for a comic strip I was considering working on. This althought nice, was slow going. So I began to write a movie, wich began to be known as tripple threat. I realised soon enough that I liked TV more than movies... so I started writing Tripple Threat as a TV show... but this project fell through when I realised how many scripts it takes to make a TV show. Quickly I returned to the idea of movie making, it apealed to me, and kept me almost sane... wich was a nice change. I got to the summer, where drunken dreams did infact effect my script writing... wich was nice... during the day, at summer school, I would scribble down the script.
Thats when it hit me... "The Mary Men" would be an awsome name of a band. That spawned the ledgend that is The Mary Men.
Serious work on the Mary Men began when I got my laptop (that thing that seems to grow out of my legs while I am sitting down). It may infact be first thing I wrote on my laptop... but I could be quite wrong. Once the script had been written, it needed to be transcribed... a long task I undertook with no knoledge of how long it would take.
Once it got done, it was PDFed (a new verb... I swear), and sent to Todd. Todd gave it to his mother, who while being insulted by my degrading language, printed and coppied my script. Tranported in a back pack, it came to my house and was received with open hands for the first ever full reading of the script (thats right... no one had read it before... not even me). The script then stood (or more matter of factly, lay in a folder) in my dining room till the next script reading.
now all of this is normal actions for a script. But after that second reading, I realised that my script was mostly trash... sure there were a few good lines here and there... but most of the time it was just bad writing and swear words. So it traveled with me to work... on the way there I edited out a bunch of crap. I continued at lunch... but I forgot it at home so I couldn't edit it more on the way home. I did work on it at lunch the next day... wich was nice (lots of shit... GONE). Again, it was left forgoten... so now I am forced to go into work tomorow, and pull it out from beside the CD player... so I can take it home and fix up the bad parts.
and that my friends is the story of the travels of my script.
Thank you and Bob bless.
This got me thinking, it may be time for some huge revisions on the script. So I started editing my script down. I cut out crap. I added crap. I now added new twists... well, as many twists as a character peice can have... so the next time any one (other than me) reads the script it should be (bigger) and better than before. I will give you a hint... I will be adding a scene that I removed before.
But with all these changes I figure I should give you an idea of where my script has been.
It started off as a drunken dream... actually it started off as a bunch of funny sayings written down in my "World Perspectives" class. It was all down hill from there, as I started to write them into scripts for a comic strip I was considering working on. This althought nice, was slow going. So I began to write a movie, wich began to be known as tripple threat. I realised soon enough that I liked TV more than movies... so I started writing Tripple Threat as a TV show... but this project fell through when I realised how many scripts it takes to make a TV show. Quickly I returned to the idea of movie making, it apealed to me, and kept me almost sane... wich was a nice change. I got to the summer, where drunken dreams did infact effect my script writing... wich was nice... during the day, at summer school, I would scribble down the script.
Thats when it hit me... "The Mary Men" would be an awsome name of a band. That spawned the ledgend that is The Mary Men.
Serious work on the Mary Men began when I got my laptop (that thing that seems to grow out of my legs while I am sitting down). It may infact be first thing I wrote on my laptop... but I could be quite wrong. Once the script had been written, it needed to be transcribed... a long task I undertook with no knoledge of how long it would take.
Once it got done, it was PDFed (a new verb... I swear), and sent to Todd. Todd gave it to his mother, who while being insulted by my degrading language, printed and coppied my script. Tranported in a back pack, it came to my house and was received with open hands for the first ever full reading of the script (thats right... no one had read it before... not even me). The script then stood (or more matter of factly, lay in a folder) in my dining room till the next script reading.
now all of this is normal actions for a script. But after that second reading, I realised that my script was mostly trash... sure there were a few good lines here and there... but most of the time it was just bad writing and swear words. So it traveled with me to work... on the way there I edited out a bunch of crap. I continued at lunch... but I forgot it at home so I couldn't edit it more on the way home. I did work on it at lunch the next day... wich was nice (lots of shit... GONE). Again, it was left forgoten... so now I am forced to go into work tomorow, and pull it out from beside the CD player... so I can take it home and fix up the bad parts.
and that my friends is the story of the travels of my script.
Thank you and Bob bless.
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