#scripty gotta script

[scriptmedic]

I was thinking about how my position on medical realism in storytelling has changed.

When I started this blog, all the common mistakes/tropes/myths really got inder my skin, because life/medicine/the human body usually doesn't work the way it does in movies or TV.

Or rather, movies and TV like to ignore how things really work in service of telling a better story.

And when people think life works like the movies, it adds real difficulties by way of unrealistic expectations. It makes the real world harder.

Then my pendulum swung toward, "tell a good story with enough detail that it feels real enough for the world you're building." Basically, I loosened up a bit, and recognized that stories are meant to be fantasies.

Then I watched the first few episodes of E.R. for the first time the other day courtesy of Mrs. Scripty, and realized that when a good writer gets the medicine right, you can have both incredible storytelling and pinpoint accuracy. (I spotted one tiny error in the first 4 episodes of ER, which, all else being equal, is an incredible accuracy rate. Even the characters' mistakes are completely appropriate based on specialty and experience).

I think you're still better off deciding how real you want your story to be, and what you want the impact of a given injury/illness to have on your character, and what you want it to reveal about them, and back-building from there.

But damn is it good to watch a show really fucking nail it.

[suchacomet]

no need to respond if you don't want to for any reason, but I'm curious do you work on films or shows or both? and what type of work do you do on sets?

lol no worries! i don’t like to talk specifics about my real life bc i love having this blog as a place where i can vent without worrying that people will be able to identify me irl so i’m gonna be a bit vague, but yeah i do film! i went to school for film and i currently work in the industry but not in production. i loooooove being on set and spent my last semester of school basically pa-ing for all of my friends’ capstone projects, it was a fucking blast! i’m trying to get out of my current job and get more into production now that i’m in my new area though :) also thinking about going back to school for cinema studies but i think that’s further down the road for me tbh

when i am on set professionally i’m usually a pa, i once got paid to babysit gear for five hours outside in the summer heat and another time for operating a zoom call for a talent press circuit. i don’t wanna like, over-explain anything obvious but if you don’t know, pa stands for production assistant and they’re basically the grunts who do everything and anything their supervisor tells them to do. not glamorous but it’s great to feel useful and everyone’s gotta start somewhere! on a student set i got to gaff/grip (set up lighting/sound equipment, respectively) a bit and i operated a jib (basically a low-fi crane) AND a dolly (i pushed a truck that the cinematographer and his camera was on back and forth for like fifteen takes to get a good tracking shot) which made me feel very tough and cool even though my arms were trembling the entire time. i also script supervised on a few sets and i LOVE doing that, if i have a long-term career goal in production besides writer/director/producer (bc everyone who goes to school for film but didn’t go to Film School wants to be a writer/director/producer lmao) it’s definitely scripty <3 they’re the ones who check for continuity between takes and shots as well as making sure all lines are being hit and that shots in the same location but in different times in the script are differentiated etc., it’s a lot but it’s the perfect blend of practical organization and creativity that my brain loves. but tbh just being on set, especially a fiction scripted set, is just my favorite feeling in the world, i could be told to stand in the corner and hold sandbags for ten hours and be happy :)

[sean-leon]

SPLASH FREESTYLE (FEA. ADRIA DEY) [PRODUCED BY BIJAN AMIR]

I DON'T GOTTA FIGHTI DON'T GOTTA LISTENBITCH I'M GOING PLATINUMMY MONEY RIGHT - I'M DIPPINTHINKIN BOUT MY PAST HOW THE PRESENT IS A GIFT AND THINKIN BOUT THE LAMBBOUT TO COP IT WITH THE CHICKENI JUST BROKE MY WRIST DOIN DONUTS OUT MY BUILDING WHIPPIN UP THESE QUARTERS TILL I CAUGHT A QUARTER MILLIONMONEY OVER BITCHES THAT'S THE MOTTO THAT'S THE SCRIPTUREFUCK I'M LOOKIN' LIKE THROWING MONEY AT A STRIPPERSTICKING TO THE SCRIPTI GET SCRAPPY FOR THE SCRIPT YEAHLEADER OF THE SHIP BITCH I'M GOOD AT LEADERSHIP YEAHSPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH BIG DRIP YEAHSPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASHAY PLUS I GOT THIS SLIMMY TRYNA FUCK ME OFF THE STRENGTH BRUHPLUS I GOT THESE NIGGAS TRYNA WET ME LIKE A SINK BRUHPUSSY AIR TIGHT HA - GOT A BIG DRIP YEAHCOME BACK WITH MY MONEY AND YOU'LL GET A BIG TIP YEAHSPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH BIG DRIP YEAHSPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASHWHY YOU DWELLING ON THE PAST WHEN IT'S HISTORY?HOW I GET THESE BITCHES THAT'S A MYSTERY YEAHI INTRODUCE 5 RACKS TO THAT ASSI CUT THAT LIL BITCH CAUSE SHE WANT MORE THE HALFI MOONWALK IN THAT BITCH CAUSE I GOT PERFECT BALANCEFIRST ONE TO TOUCH 20 RACKS LET'S MAKE A CHALLENGEI GOT A CALL FROM MY LIL NIGGA I'M TAPPING INTOO MUCH PLAYS ON THE PHONE BUT I'M STILL IN THE GYMHIT THE JEWELLER WITH MY DOGS CALL IT SPLASHWORKSHE LEFT ME OPEN FOR THE THREE THEN IT'S SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH BIG DRIP YEAHSPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASHWHY YOU DWELLING ON THE PAST WHEN IT'S HISTORY?HOW I GET THESE BITCHES THAT'S A MYSTERYYOUR MAN DOESN'T LIKE IT BUT IT HIT TO ME :)FALLING IN THAT PUSSY CAUSE IT'S SLIPPERY AY

[joshmcclenney]

Photo: “MONROE” - New Filmmakers Los Angeles Semi Finalist Winner

Day 100: “That’s The One We’re Here To Protect”

Date:

1-29-19

Mood:

Hustlin

Actor:

Got up early this morning to reregister for my stand in job.. just something I have to do every year or so. Gotta keep these lights on. 😉

It’s a bit of a process. Paperwork. Shitty employees. Early morning... But. In the long run it helps. And I don’t have to see those people all the time.. I also looked over the new headshots tonight and narrowed it down to 12. Go me! I’m gonna pick 6 tomorrow from those 12 to retouch and use. 😁and they’re are some good shots if I do say so myself. I also want to arrange another shoot with dean as well.. looking for some more lifestyle type shots not headshots. And Dean is that dude📸

I was offered another job today! Yey! 😃

But they pay like shit! Boo 😒

Ok😑.... ok😑....

I sent them an email tonight informing them the rate they were offering is below what I would work for. But I gave them a fair amount (to both parties) that I’d be happy to be a part of their project for... we’ll see.

Filmmaker:

After I got home from me mornin’ stuffs I went straight to writing ✍🏽

Good day. A little distracted but got work done. Focused on a few of my projects. I was bobbin & weevin’ through things 🥊

I realized a couple of stuffs.

One. Music sets my tone and emotion and propels me into the journey of the written word. Love that♥️

Two. I’m gonna focus ONLY on Clay tomorrow. Really want to get this pin board section locked down so I can dive back into some scripty script of Clay.. I feel I got my shorts in a nice position. To the point where I can focus on Clay for a day or two.

Final Thoughts:

So much on the brain.. it really is. Not sure what to express. And discuss.. speaking from the heart. I’m proud of myself. I’m proud of the man I’m becoming. I’m proud o know how to deal with certain situations and adjust to others. I’m proud of my achievements. Even though at this time regardless of how big they are they are just silent pats on the back.. I’m proud of me. I’m feeling a lot of things right now. And the best part about that is they are going into my work.. it’s been tough. Getting here. To this moment.. I’m loading up the gear so I can feel fully prepared. And I do.. everything is still very quiet. Very still. I’m taking advantage of this time. And living in this moment because I know it won’t always be like this. I really want to start meditating. I think I’m gonna skate that for next week. I am practicing my happiness in my right now. Because I am happy. I’m very happy. Even though I tell myself otherwise at times.

..oh yessssss. I forgot to mention. I reached my

💯 DAYS 🎉🥳 🎉

Here’s to the next 💯

Now. It’s 💯 and counting...

[greenplumbboblover]

Scripty scripts!

I’m almost done with the pet beds! Will probably release them at least this month if life won’t keep me as busy...

Vet career

Anyways! We all still remember that active career I was working on, still am! Just trying to figure out a few things on how to do this manually, so this could take a while (X)

Monkeybars

Got the animations ready, the script, still gotta test the very first version (Which is just plain easy. Getting a kid to the other side of it, that’s it. I’m planning on having teens and kids being able to sit on top of it and talk or just playing around a bit rather than just going to the other side) But still gotta fix this floorprint thing to get the script to recognise it... so that will be fun!

Sim spawners or skeleton lifestate

Now the skeleton lifestate would be something similar to TS4′s change into a skeleton and back + It’s additional dance... didn’t really get far into it, but given my brain, I guess i’ll come up with weird stuff. Could probably do that with the floursacks this way now I think about it....

The sim spawners is mainly because I HATE having to make/create new sims to get a scene work all right because community lots have like 2 NPCs usually showing up on a lot... or none! Which doesn’t work if your story scene is just, well, a party or something that requires a lot of sims to show up. 

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So I will probably bother you guys with more ideas on these subjects, and ask for any feedback or ideas if have any... which you can do at the moment as well! :)

[thiaschuessler]

2020 Roundup

Woof. What a year. 

When I think back on 2020, it's truly a blur --and not in the fun way, like a whirlwind trip across Europe or a two-week feature film shoot. When future generations ask me about the pandemic, my vague memory of 2020 will be 10 months all blended together while I wasted away in bed. Sleeping 12 out of 24 hours each day. Indulging in far too many midnight bowls of cereal. Watching more TV than ever humanly possible pre-quarantine. In a normal year, the film and television that I consume is more curated to quality work that inspires me to make my own. Going into 2021, I’m worried I’ve become too comfortable at home, watching crap. I’m worried I’ve lost my drive to be out here in LA, trying to make it in “showbiz.” 

Now that it’s New Year’s Eve, I’ve decided to dust off my laptop and keep up with my annual tradition of blogging my accomplishments. I think it’s important, this year more than ever, to enumerate the few things that did happen to my career in 2020.

1. I started the year off (pre-pandemic) by submitting Shy Ruby’s “LIT” (the New Year’s Eve mini rom com that my sister Sarah and I made together in 2019) to some romance film festivals. Sadly, several were canceled or postponed indefinitely, but we were lucky to share our work with a few festivals that went virtual this year.

2. Before the lockdown, in February, “LIT” had its international premiere at a romance festival in Australia, which was screened in an actual cinema, but obviously it was too far for me to attend. I did get to attend the premiere screening of “CRYSTAL” --another romantic short film I worked on back in September 2019 that was being released on Valentine’s Day 2020.

3. “LIT” had its Canadian premiere in Toronto, where judges and audience members were asked to watch from home. We received lovely feedback through videos from sweet sweet Canadians who awarded “LIT” BEST PERFORMANCES. (Yay for me and my co-star, Al Rahn!) “LIT” was also selected for an annual summer film series in Toronto, which had to be held virtually this year. It was screened online in a block of female-directed shorts. (Yay for Sarah Schuessler!)

4. In May, Shy Ruby was given an entire section of a streaming app called BeeTV in the “made for women by women” category.

5. In the fall, I was hired to work on one of the first feature film productions back since quarantine (or so we bragged) called OJAI, shooting in one of my favorite cities just 15 minutes from where I was quarantining: Ojai, California. I got myself on the crew as Script Supervisor thanks to my trusty OCD. Once I met (and charmed) everyone on set, I was asked to be an extra in the background of a scene. Then another. And another, until finally, I had an actual character with three scenes with lines and a name! It was pretty funny to get so much encouragement after my scenes from my fellow crew members, telling me what a natural I was (they had no idea I was a trained actress). But I’m still happy if they only know me as a Scripty, because I absolutely loved doing that crazy crazy job.

6. To finish off the year with a bang, I flew to New Orleans to shoot one ten-minute scene in an indie feature film. When the director cast me off my reel, he told me that I reminded him of Greta Gerwig (sold!). I don't know if he saw that I had theatre-training, but he said that they were going to be shooting long takes, so I’d be a great fit. I had no idea that the reason we’d be doing long takes was that we were shooting on film! Very exciting and nerve-racking, because like in live theatre, you have to get it right every time, and if you mess up, you have to make it work for the scene. There’s no room for an actor to stop and say, “Can we cut?” or “Can we go again?” So we rehearsed the full 10+ minute scene over and over for two hours until we had it in our bones. Finally, that camera started rolling, and damn was it loud! I hadn’t worked with an actual film camera since my cinematography class freshman year at USC (when I thought I wanted to be a DP, before I realized how insanely hard it is). So I had completely forgotten how loud that film roll is! We had all been rehearsing in our “screen actor” voices, aka basically whispering, because with microphones and a digital camera, you don’t have to project your voice. But once we were rolling, we realized our whispers weren’t going to cut it! So it was a very theatrical performance for my second role in a feature film this year. I’m very interested to see how it turns out. But I know my co-stars Jaren Mitchell & Jamie Neumann were killing it. 

The Cast: Me, Jaren Mitchell (The Purge), Jamie Neumann (The Deuce) 

I didn’t take any photos on set, but while I was in New Orleans, I did visit a photographer friend Josh Vine at the Bywater Art Lofts and we had some fun:

7. On a general note, throughout the year, I was invited to submit self-taped auditions for more projects than I can count, which is not usual. I filmed and submitted several “tapes” for the ones that I was excited about. I had 5 callbacks. I had 2 Zoom meetings with directors. I was offered 4 roles that I never even auditioned for. (2 of those 4 were never filmed, but it’s still flattering.) So, while I know I could’ve been hustling harder this year, I gotta say I’m impressed I even had these kinds of numbers during the pandemic, when I tried to consciously give myself permission NOT to hustle.

I was also asked to record a portion of ABBA’s “Thank You for the Music” for one of those compilation videos that were so popular at the beginning of the pandemic. I don’t think the director ever posted it, though, because this was when the BLM movement was gaining momentum, and it would’ve been gauche to post a bunch of annoying musical-lovers singing about how lucky we are to be blonde --an actual line from this song is “I’ve been so lucky. I am the girl with golden hair. I want to sing it out to everybody. What a joy, what a life, what a chance!” So... yeah. That’s a big no no. Regardless, it was fun to sing in the closet that day, so here’s my bit!

All in all, in conclusion, I forgot how to write. No wonder I didn’t get past the concept phase of the next Shy Ruby script. Hopefully, I’ll get over my personal creative block in 2021. If not, apparently I can work on other people’s projects and it’s pretty fun! Oh man. My brain really atrophied from lack of use this year. PEACE 2020!

[bluesundayss]

Feedback on my screenplay from my tutor: your writing is really good. I can tell you're a short story writer through your use of tension and descriptors - but this is a screenplay, ya gotta be direct and to the point. Good script though, interesting story.

So the good news is that the story is super interesting and the writing is really good - the bad news is that I have to rewrite all of it so it's more scripty...