Progress & Accomplishments:
-Viewed 3 Films
-Wrote on 2 Films
-Wrote to page 39 of Golem feature
-Re-designed and printed 100 business cards
-Created website framework (Home, News, Motion Pictures, Screening Room, Credits and Links pages)
Not bad for a week's work.
I'd like to pick up the pace with the writing a little. Now that the website is structurally all there, I think that updating and editing those pages should be a little easier, giving me more time to focus on the screenplay. I'd like to get to page sixty by the end of next week, putting me half way to my 120 page goal, roughly in the middle of the month.
This week, I barely touched on promoting the "Golem" short screening event, and I didn't really do any work on coming up with new short film and feature ideas. I should get to that next week, put those tasks on the map more.
I also haven't really been looking too actively for video work. That is an important element of two MRGs. I should hit up craigslist every day next week, to look for opportunities.
Although it wasn't listed anywhere, I did something else that is very relevant to this undertaking. I bought a whiteboard, and created for myself a series of checklists for the month, sort of a way to physically keep track of my progress. It's good to blog about it, but there's nothing quite like pulling out the red marker and putting a check mark on a line or in a box.
So, there, that's my first week's check-in! If you're still following this, I thank you. Knowing that people care about my success enough to keep tabs on my progress means an awful lot to me, and helps keep me going.
Have a lovely weekend, everyone!
-AzS
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I have read your blog and your pdf and I do not understand why you have not set up a business plan or any other system for creating a fund to finance a larger-scale project. In the film world, a single, well-financed and well-executed film is worth 1,000 poorly made shorts. Studios and producers aren't looking for artists, they give jobs and money to people they trust to be able to turn large budgets into a cohesive, marketable product.
ReplyDeleteI have a job, bills to pay, etc. At this stage, I do not have the flexibility to take a risk on a larger production. Although I agree with you, on the whole, I'm not sure that the risks of a large production can be justified just yet. That said, my plan does incorporate writing a feature (which I do hope to make happen some day), as well as writing numerous treatments for possible full-length films in the future. As you must know, writing treatments and generating pitchable and sellable ideas is an important skill in its own right, and must be practiced. If I spend two years practicing this, and have a few excellent pitches as a result, I'll have ideas to pitch and a film to create when it's time for me to move forward on that bigger production.
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