LFA Notes

Tuesday, 24 February 2009

James Dean

Rough notes from the London Film Academy open evening I went to with Bob Portal (Lord of War)

Script Sites:

Ink Tip
Script Pimp

Movie Notes

Eighty percent of movies are made from books, contact a publisher to get their pre-release catalogue and get in there first-hand.

Note, big studio's have deals with the bigger publishers so they may usually have the latest stories before it hits the book-sellers. However there's always a chance they overlook the best ideas.

Also try to contact agents in the media, they may have a film or short work they need produced; offer to do it as a favour.

One of the main faults in shooting a short-film is finding the best location for recording sound, so many good ideas have been ruined by overlooking this fundamental element.

Script Writing

Write spec scripts, find literary agents, contact the Film Council.

A good short-film script has a good one-page synopsis and averages 90-100 pages. Has a good layout, structure. It's quick, fast and doesn't have many long complicated scene set-ups.