Writing script for short vampire film... with a twist

[DjfunkmasterG]

I am actually writing another draft with a completely different storyline... just in case I can't get the actors I hope to get. So I will change the story and plot around as a back-up. One version will have the wife swapping aspect and the other.... won't

[MinionZombie]

If you guys needed my help on anything - not sure what that'd be, being all the way across the Atlantic - but you know, just so you know, even if it's just to run an idea by a 'virgin pair of eyes' ... which is an ironic statement in a way, because if you poke me in the eyes they'll bleed.

[LouCipherr]

MZ - You just made my list one quote longer.. Sounds like a good plan, Dj. I just hope you get the two actors you wanted originally for this idea. Would be cool to see, although their availability is the real question. LC

[DjfunkmasterG]

I just sent MZ and LOU a present... the working draft of the original idea. Now it is time to start the second draft with the alternate story.

[MinionZombie]

Sat down and read it last night, it's amazing how much you find yourself twiddling your thumbs and sighing when you don't have your beloved desktop at home ... anyway, read it, and thought it was pretty nifty. Niiiice.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Well throw it away... I am not going to do it. I am writing another VAMPIRE script called Night Fall. Think NOTLD with VAMPIRES. An entire small town under siege from blood thirsty Vampires. I talked to Lou about it last night, and I am wailing away on the script. I should have half the story done before I go home or the day. If I can find the $$$$ for it, it will be my 2007 project.

[MinionZombie]

lol, oh well - kickass anyway, sounds nifty - Night of the Living Vampires. Cool beans.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Think NOTLD meets John Carpenter's VAMPIRES without all the spot on one-liners and over the top gore and story. In fact the opening for the story is written to be shot just like the original HALLOWEEN with showing the town, and naming it and putting what year it is etc etc. You will know the whole story within the first 10 minutes of the film, then it is the plight of 4 people on the way to their friends college graduation.

[Danny]

one thing im gonna point out is when we were doing the semester on bad movies we were all told how "if a film has to say what year it is i.e actually say '1949' then its a sign of a bad film only good ones can do ti without telling you", like when donnie darko's sister states who she's gonna vote for, or the german soldiers in the opening to the first xmen film. not trying to diss nor put down, just food for thought.

[MinionZombie]

Not always - Halloween gives two dates in the first 10 minutes, and it's a phenomenal piece of filmmaking. Back when Carpenter was knocking them out the park, long before his rotator cuff went kaput. Minority Report also says what date it is at the beginning - another good film. Perhaps some of the dates your teacher is talking about have more to do with the perceived average IQ of the audience, rather than the quality of the film?

[LouCipherr]

Agreed, MZ. Think about it - the world in 1922 looked about the same as 1929. The world in 1981 looked about the same it did in 1988 - but yet we're supposed to be able to differentiate that in a film just by the "look" and the way the set is dressed or by something someone said? Man, the attention-deficit people of this world and their short attention spans end up missing half of the details in a movie anyway upon first viewing. No offense hellsing, that's not directed at you - I just think your teacher was puffin' some finely rolled HPotD when he said that.

[MinionZombie]

Another addition - people watching movies after-the-fact. Like, I didn't live in the 1940s, so like you said a film from 1941 will look basically the same as one from 1949 - obviously as a graduate of film (:smug git smiley I'd notice technological advances in sight and sound (e.g. The Maltese Falcon versus The Third Man, or even The Best Years of Our Lives) - but the average punter wouldn't. Also, if there's nothing to denote the date except for some socio-political subtext (heck, even blatant illustrations of said text), and you weren't around at that specific time, you won't understand at what time the film was - unless you know the bit of pub quiz history knowledge to back it up (or were taught it at school, which isn't bloody likely with Labour's hashed waste of children's early years). Also - films set in the future, you need to state the date, because we're in the future - which we haven't physically experienced ourselves yet, and when we get there, it'll be the present. hehehe, I wonder if Hellsing will go back to his teacher with our trampling of the theory put forth?