#writing the script for the pitch

[fantasiac]

gonna make a pitch for my Ivory Fangame

its gonna be on youtube, it will explain my ideas and show some more concept art, will probably take weeks to make so don't expect it soon, but I'm super pumped for this project :D

it will show nearly all the ideas I made in that massive post, but you guys would actually be able to read it lol, there was way too many words in that post, don't worry, this one will have pictures :D

this is also the reason i started to make that model, bc I want to make some crappy animations to show my stuff easier

(there was a joke here, but i removed it bc it wasn't really funny)

[marklikely]

literally without exaggeration this is the plot of a storybreak episode

[dreasdreams]

we need a masriel prequel asap we could have had the first meeting scene but we lost so bad now we need compensation

[aidenwaites]

For the most part I'm content with the idea that the chances of getting to make the movie that I'm writing are quite small- especially considering the fact that *I* want to make it, I don't just wanna pitch it. And sometimes I'm driving home and White Rabbit comes on and I want nothing quite as badly as I want to make this fucking movie

[ohmeadows]

i think it's better to write a really messy cringe first draft because pumping the words out and getting it all on the page is the hardest step. learning to edit your own writing is... it's a skill to build, but it pays off so well. it's interesting looking at how messy, weird and junky my first drafts are, often nothing is capitalized, i frequently add

//this needs changing but i don't have an idea of what to do with it so fix it later

or (i use parenthesis to add a question to myself? for when i'm editing? because i don't want to break the flow so what flower goes here? what does she do with it?)

or my favorite [here's a rundown of the idea i have. i don't feel like breaking my flow right now to elaborate so i jot down some quick lines about it and move on. maybe it's what i want the characters to do or it's a vibe i want to convey with their acts and words.]

and then i keep typing, knowing i've left a clear enough map of things to do later. and i let it rest for a day or two before i come back and start editing.

[chasani]

all I want is a decent animation software for free is that too much to ask

[filmcourage]

What I Finally Understand About The Screenwriting Business 20 Years Later - Mike Thompson

Watch the video interview on YouTube here.

[white-weasel]

DNDADS HEAVEN HEIST?!???!?

[childactress]

a list of media inspired by, about, or loosely adapted from the life of mara banks:

a number of mid-quality songs by mid-quality bands and the mid-quality ex-boyfriends/lovers of mara's. that subgenre of rock/alt/indie/knockoff fall out boy that tells one-sided stories about attractive but damaged^tm girls with daddy issues who outright ruined the guy's life. accuracy and scathingness vary from song to song. you've heard one or two on the radio before their shelf life was up.

a comedy stand-up routine from one of mara's Big Exes. he never identifies her by name, she's this actress i was with for a while. they're less insulting and more utterly damning by their truthful (sometimes exaggerated for the sake of a laugh) reports of her unstable, mara-typical behavior during their time together, and she becomes a recurring joke throughout. she snuck into a show once, sat and sipped at the far-off bar with a far-off look, and stayed for about ten minutes. when he later landed a deal with netflix to film and release a stand-up special, he didn't include the routine in the material; mara doesn't know if that makes her feel better or worse.

starstruck: the banks story. a lifetime movie released a handful of years after arthur and donna's deaths, capitalizing on the tragedy in the hasty way that lifetime movies do. cheap, gently exploitative, the bad type of campy. it made mara (and her sister) pretty angry at the time, but now on a good day she can watch it with a bottle of wine and laugh at the sheer inaccurate nerve. the character of mara isn't around very much and is laughably depicted as a docile sweetheart rather than the spitfire that even pre-end times mara was.

mr. and mrs. banks. a 2020s biopic that also features young mara only briefly, instead covering her parents' marriage and careers with a thematic focus on their tragic love story in tinseltown. it's not a bad piece of work at all, written by a highly-regarded husband and wife duo. a turning point in mara's life: she possessively pursues and wins the role of her own mother, blonde wigs and all. it's a deeply emotionally invasive experience, obviously. and weird as hell falling in fake love with her own dad('s on-camera imitator). she turns in a hell of a performance and comes out the other end with a better reputation and a renewed if slightly cautious interest in hiring her, having reminded hollywood that hey, this girl can act. her world turns inside out, a psychological reckoning. she shakes off some bad habits, picks up a couple others; she dyes her hair blonde during the press tour - a suggestion from a studio suit to emphasize her natural close resemblance to her mother and thus promote public interest in the film (the americans who still remember the complete banks family unit: that's her now? wow, she looks just like her mom.) sadly, fatefully, she lives a long time seeing her mother in every mirror she passes, which has exactly the effect on her psyche that you think. an actress who came back from the dead even deader. tragedy come full circle. meet the new mara banks. a much, much slower kind of car crash.

[hummingbird-games]

this whitney gif is MY antsy dumbass who's supposed to be working on a game wrap up for the blog and a certain route outline, and a yuri shaped project but had started contemplating working on a new Thing that wasn't supposed to be touched until like...2025.

the nod at the end is me shifting into Gremlin Gemini Mode.

I asked the void, "how much time I got rn?" and it replied "none. zero. stop it." so. I started singing Take A Break from the Hamilton soundtrack to drown out the hating because I don't need the (extra) negativity in my life 🤣🤡

[sparkles-oflight]

TOP 10 THINGS I HATE

Number 1 - having to start a new empty document

[mycenaae]

signed up to pitch at a local filmmaking festival ... fear.png

[aidenwaites]

I got to go to a showing of all the challenge short films/ the short film I worked on tonight!!! It was so fun!!

[wheredidmyfacego]

Pitch. The first two panels of this trope play out. Including the story being from the perspective of the main character, and even showing some not great (unintended) outcomes of the unconventional methods™. But then twist, third panel antagonist doubles down and fights for the people and main character loses. Fourth panel is main character being grumpy and complaining but objectively living a better life in the new (probably communist) world order put in place by antagonist who still died probably but is celebrated for dismantling the awful status quo.

can we stop doing this trope

[filmcourage]

3 Ways I Got Hollywood Producers To Read My Screenplays - Bill Mikita

Watch the video interview on YouTube here.