Have You Ever Written A Screenplay?

[MistressJennifer]

Or a synopsis, treatment, etc.? I think I have written about 6 or 7 screenplays and they were all so bad that I threw them away...

But I just wrote a treatment that I really like a lot.

[Imnotherethisisnthappenin]

Yes. They too were bad. I gave them to a friend of mine who occasionally entertains notions of becoming a filmaker. I hope they help him... even if only in the sense that they help him look for something worth filming.

[MistressJennifer]

Yes. They too were bad. I gave them to a friend of mine who occasionally entertains notions of becoming a filmaker. I hope they help him... even if only in the sense that they help him look for something worth filming.

What were your screenplays about?

[BrightStar]

Yep, I almost got it made into a video game, but I didnt have a story board for the project. It was Parasol films. Btw, BrightStar is the last name of the Main Character. Thats where My ID is from.**
The Game name was going to be called : Dragon Lore

* A shooting star flies by, with the words attached, " Now You Know", as the background fades to black, with a spotlight on BrightStar*
** Lol.**

[One Eyed Cat]

Or a synopsis, treatment, etc.? I think I have written about 6 or 7 screenplays and they were all so bad that I threw them away...

But I just wrote a treatment that I really like a lot.

I'm thinking about taking a jab at a sequel to Heathers, if Westerberg does not pick up the pace. It would really be a completely different story with Veronica in Petaluma. I wrote a few on the civil war when I was younger, nothing major.

http://www.screenplay.com - has some organizational software u might try.


OEC

[bre.star]

yah ive written a bunch, but the long ones ive written i never finish, either i dont have an ending or i dont have a middle..

[Kidthorazine]

i have some treatments for a few horror films ive been waning to make if i finish i screen play i will either try to make it myself with me directing and acting and whatnot or maybe selling it to Troma (www.troma.com) but yeah i have one i really like but the treatment by its self is like 55 pages long so it would be a long as movie and that would make it harder to sell pluss i really want to do it myself but i have to write the actual screenplay first

[sheramil]

oh yeah. three and a half episodes of a proposed TV comedy. unfortunately it just wasn't funny.

"Bell and Dorje", about an American cop sent to work in Tibet. vaguely M*A*S*H*-like in its anti-authority stance. there's only so many jokes you can work at the expense of the Chinese government, though.

[Tequila Zaire]

Yup....I'm in L.A. so part of the deal is you HAVE to have one done, in progress, or soon to be written...or else they kick you out or up north.

[KilLAtomiK]

i wrote one just for fun and youd never guess what it was about

[sheramil]

i wrote one just for fun and youd never guess what it was about

we all eagerly await the live-action Ren and Stimpy film!

[Imnotherethisisnthappenin]

What were your screenplays about?

The first was about a literate malcontent whose most recent story about a version of vampires who completely devour those they don't turn, help him out of a situation he gets himself into by visiting an even more malcontented "friend" with designs on assassinating the president.
The second was about a car accident at the end of the driveway of serial killer, involving himself, his date, and two individuals with something sinister of their own to hide and the hilarity which ensued.
These were written as many as eight and six years ago. There really isn't much sense in writing screenplays outside of California. Especially really really bad ones.

[Nightingale]

Yes, over the years I've written many things. Mainly I've put together ideas for short sketches which have been used in comedy shows in the UK and Germany. Many, many years ago I was sitting in a cafe in London drinking coffee and reading and a well known tv producer was sitting with a young writer in the next booth. They were talking about a plot the writier had and making a one hour tv special over a decorating business. I put my 2 cents in as an aside and the work was changed into a three episode (each one hour) special along my suggestions. Never got credit, but I didn't give them my name either.

[MistressJennifer]

Well there seems to be a lot of writing talent here!!! We should all collaborate and write the screenplay for the new BLUE BLOOD DVD!!!!

Amelia!!! I just want my one scene bathing in the bathtub full of the blood of the young gothic sluts I have killed, wearing my tiara!!!

[One Eyed Cat]

Well there seems to be a lot of writing talent here!!! We should all collaborate and write the screenplay for the new BLUE BLOOD DVD!!!!

Amelia!!! I just want my one scene bathing in the bathtub full of the blood of the young gothic sluts I have killed, wearing my tiara!!!

haha. I even suggested that to her. Not GREASE tho.


OEC

[suicidal_tendencies]

I have a whole box full. I think they suck, everyone else thinks they kick ass. no one will ever find them now though, i've hid them. In my closet. damnit know you know where they are.

[MistressJennifer]

I have a whole box full. I think they suck, everyone else thinks they kick ass. no one will ever find them now though, i've hid them. In my closet. damnit know you know where they are.

hah!! I'll bet they are really good. I sent sent my treatment to thic cute English actor and now he is not speaking to me....Oh well, all my screenplays suck!

[suicidal_tendencies]

hah!! I'll bet they are really good. I sent sent my treatment to thic cute English actor and now he is not speaking to me....Oh well, all my screenplays suck!

maybe you just made him speechless? lol

[One Eyed Cat]

maybe you just made him speechless? lol

From what I've heard from english girls, that may well be true. *my blueblood brothers from the UK excluded*


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[richardpotter]

i've written a number of screenplays

i liked a few of them, and hated a few as well.

i write short stories now

[MistressJennifer]

OK so one person actually liked my treatment, but he did jail time!!! What does this mean?

[One Eyed Cat]

OK so one person actually liked my treatment, but he did jail time!!! What does this mean?

He has a lot of fucking time to edit it!!??!! A lot of great writers do time.

OEC

[MistressJennifer]

Ha!!!!

I had these really dom German girls help me edit my TV show pilot, and they were SO dominant about it!!! I mean, I had every scene all worked out where it should be cut and edited, and they went and edited it without me and took out my favorite bit!!!

[One Eyed Cat]

Ha!!!!

I had these really dom German girls help me edit my TV show pilot, and they were SO dominant about it!!! I mean, I had every scene all worked out where it should be cut and edited, and they went and edited it without me and took out my favorite bit!!!

Germans are way too efficient for my taste.

OEC

[MistressJennifer]

Germans are way too efficient for my taste.

OEC

Yes, but that is my BEST accent!!! What is you best accent?

[One Eyed Cat]

Yes, but that is my BEST accent!!! What is you best accent?

Ukrainian Obviously. Really tho, I can do any slavic or Dracul like accent pretty well.
If I try German, it will tend to pick up accents in the languages I'm more familiar with.

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[MistressJennifer]

So I re-wrote my treatment and made it a bit more "GUY" oriented... So there is the BOY version and the GIRL version.... The guy version is also a bit shorter. I am trying to get away from it being TOO romantic and girlie...

The English actor e-mailed and said that he liked it. I thought that he hated it. Oh, and the guy from jail liked it. I must ask him WHY he was in jail...

[MistressJennifer]

So now the English actor e-mailed me back with this long e-mail telling me what my treatment was about, and telling me to read books for "reference" so that I could understand my own treatment!!!!

I guess, since I am blonde, I need him to tell me what my brain thinks!!!

[One Eyed Cat]

So now the English actor e-mailed me back with this long e-mail telling me what my treatment was about, and telling me to read books for "reference" so that I could understand my own treatment!!!!

I guess, since I am blonde, I need him to tell me what my brain thinks!!!

I think he's just trying to give you background information on the subject your dealing with.

OEC

[MistressJennifer]

I think he's just trying to give you background information on the subject your dealing with.

OEC

But I wrote the story. He hasn't the faintest clue as to what the story is about. How could he give me background on something that I created from my own experience?

[One Eyed Cat]

But I wrote the story. He hasn't the faintest clue as to what the story is about. How could he give me background on something that I created from my own experience?

He got more out of it than you put into it. A great story might have 5 levels of meaning. I'm not saying you should change anything for him, but I'd at least hear him out.


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[MistressJennifer]

He just wants to make it into a different screenplay. What he is saying has nothing to do with what I wrote. It's just an actor with a big ego. Actors are not supposed to tell writers what to write, they are supposed to act.

[One Eyed Cat]

He just wants to make it into a different screenplay. What he is saying has nothing to do with what I wrote. It's just an actor with a big ego. Actors are not supposed to tell writers what to write, they are supposed to act.

Oh he's an actor? LOL Nevermind then

OEC

[MistressJennifer]

Oh he's an actor? LOL Nevermind then

OEC

I mean he is not even a famous actor, I'm sure you have done more acting than he has.... And he has never even done "Grease"...