Archive for March 6th, 2008
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
State of the Union
So what the hell is going on right now? Well…
I’m currently working on another Treatment for the Panda Girls movie. The first one I wrote was almost half a year ago, when I thought I knew our film, and discovered that I knew how to spell “indecorous”… and not much else.
The first draft of the Treatment read like half a Gordon Korman novel, and half a list of food ingredients. It wasn’t well put together, and often I was being WAY too flowery with the prose. Really, there shouldn’t be much prose at all. I obsess over it by looking at the Chinatown Treatment, and trying to get my point across with equal brevity. I am not always successful.
Going into this draft of the Treatment however, will be a different game. Over the last few months Axe and I have spent countless meetings working on the structure of the film. It’s been tough to put aside our feelings for certain scenes, and sequences, and look at it with an eye for pure structure. I don’t do this by nature, although Axe is pretty good at it. The bottom line is, we’re still fresh faced in the movie game. We have to manage our expectations, and realize we aren’t going to be pro’s just because we read a lot of books. But I digress.
The new Treatment! Yay! So, new structure, new confidence. It’s been a crucible, but we’ve arrived on solid ground finally. Now we can work on a Treatment that will yield scenes we actually want to film, instead of scenes we just want on the page in order to feel like we’ve accomplished something.
I’ll let you know when it’s all said and done, and we’ll post it up on www.panda-girls.com
Mahalo,
Crom
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
A light in the black…
Or just a Fear of the Dark.
I feared this first post. The blank page is a fearsom monster that can swallow you whole. As a younger, and by virtue of such, dumber man, I thought I could sneak past the blank page by getting wasted and writing. My attempt at the Sun Also Rises should have been called “The Shit also Rises”. There’s a difference between being an alcoholic who writes, and writing with alcohol. The difference is called “Sense”.
I’ll just say the following: This blog will be structured badly, often misspelled, but you’ll get a good laugh. Possibly you’ll get some wisdom. And, if nothing else, you’ll get another notch in your belt of people you think are not quite sane. This will be the most coherent post I will ever write.
I had to take 30 valium to do it.