ok, I’m back from two weeks holiday in India. Anyone who hasn’t been and have the possibility to go… just go! absolutely full on!, never stops, off the scale mad, an amazing country! This was my third time there, but the place never stops to amaze me.
This time was for leisure, while the previous two trips where used to shoot the re-enactments for our treasure hunt documentary in Afghanistan. I shall upload pics from this trip soon, but I’m also working on getting my photoshelter account up and running properly and more shots from this and other trips and projs will be shown there.
in the meantime, before, after and during the trip, i’ve been working on scripts – both my own and other’s that i hope to direct. horror and thrillers are wepons of choice at the moment. i guess that’s what the market is calling for mostly, but it’s also where my unguided interest seems to be pulling towards at the moment.
i’m going back to sweden this week to work with a scriptwriter there to develop his script for the international market, but also hoping to put some words on paper on my own stuff this month. the general idea is to have one or two workable scripts ready by spring.. and time’s runnig out!
i’ve recently found some really useful online articles that unexpectedly provided new interesting tools for structuring stories for the big screen. i thought i was saturated with the usual script-writer-mumbo-jumbo and had heard it all over and over a million times, but some of these workflows to x-check, x-ray and develop the structure properly really shines with their simplicity and usefullness. i’ll post them next time around..
if anyone reading this is intersted in further specific thoughts on script writing, – please ask questions to help me come up with topics and structure for these blog posts. i would love to actually be able to write about my experiences and knowledge of scripts and in a way that would actually help people – in the meantime i’m trying to conjole my book/script-writing friends to start blogs here and write about their creative workflows and processes.
ok it’s my girlfriends first day at her new job tomorrow and my grandad’s 91 birthday on wedn and between those i have to kick-start one or two productions, so i’d better get some rest or people are going to complain.
i’ll try to make this a bit more frequent and rich on information in the next coming posts.
over and out
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