Animated Halloween movie update

The idea's have been fleshed out and the the next draft is finished.  I believe it's a much stronger piece and I even came up with a possible sequel idea.  The characters have better motivation and are fleshed out even more.  The story is stronger and more work has been done on the villain.  My wife will do another read through (since most of the revisions were done by me) and after her changes, we'll read through it together again to make sure the story still flows.  This one has the biggest potential I think, but it's also the least likely to get made, since it is an animated movie, and there are only a handful of movie studios that could make it.  But I really believe in this one and know it would make an entertaining movie.

Another e-mail to Mr. G.

My other horror screenplay with traps has been rewritten and I think it's better because of it.  Each draft changes a little and hopefully improves the screenplay.  I sent it to Mr. G. so he could read it and see if he had any more suggestions.

Screenplays to Mr. G.

I sent an e-mail to Mr. G. with the finished screenplay of C&C, and the note for him to just take a look at it since it's complete, and maybe the solid writing, and great characters would make the sci fi element a little less jarring.  I also finished the story pitch for the reworked horror idea based off of the same concept of C&C and sent that to him as well.

My other horror movie deals with traps, and Lannie recommended checking out the old Dungeons and Dragons module, "Tomb of Horror."  He remembered it had a lot of traps and might inspire some ideas.  I found a copy on the Dungeons and Dragons website (the web is amazing and wonderful) and read through it.  The Tomb of Horrors is exactly that, the module is basically just one big dungeon filled with traps meant to kill the characters.  Some, you can be smart about, and get through, but there are a lot that would require dumb luck to survive.  I'm glad I was never subjected to the atrocities of that dungeon.  It would have been frustrating and my character would probably be dead.

But it was an interesting read and it did spark a couple of ideas I could rework in my screenplay.

Lannie's comments

I received Lannie's thoughts on the horror movie C&C, and he didn't have any issues with the sci fi element.  He thought it made the movie unique and different.  He also had a few suggestions so I have begun the process of rewriting that one again.  How many projects am I juggling now?  Too many, but that's the business.  If I didn't love writing so much, my feeling of being overwhelmed would turn into outright dread and horror.  But it's my passion so it seems a little less like work, a little.

Halloween Animation

Based off of Mr. G.'s feedback, my wife and I have been looking at his comments and started to figure out which ones we want to use.  We broke it down into four main areas that we're going to concentrate on, and begun to organize the idea's he had for our animated screenplay, and the ones we came up with.

New movie idea

After my pitch meeting I started writing down idea's on the reworked concept idea from Mr. G. about a broken down bus.  I've been researching horror movie cliches, so I can decide which ones I want to incorporate.  I also sent a copy of my horror movie C&C to Lannie (1/3rd of One-Eyed Pictures) to get his take on it and if he had any issues with the sci fi element.

Pitch Meeting with Mr. G.

I had a productive meeting with my Hollywood contact that I've been calling Mr. G.  This is the guy that taught the screenwriting seminar way back in September of 2009.  It was the one that inspired me to focus more on screenwriting, which brought my total up from two to twelve.  I pitched my three ideas again, he gave his thoughts on them, and some feedback for improvement.  He had trouble visualizing the sci fi element to one of the horror ideas.  So he gave a suggestion on a similar concept but a different story all together.  Overall, there is a lot to think about, and it's time for more of the never ending process of revision.  He also said it was Sundance Festival time and then the Oscars, so there wouldn't be much work done until those are over.

A New Year

So it's time to welcome 2013 with open arms and open possibilities.  It will be another year filled with writing and hopefully some video work.  I'm still on track to finish my first novel around the end of the month, or the beginning of February.  I'm working out what my writing schedule will be for this year.  There are always a ton of projects that I'd like to get to, but there are only so many hours in the day.  I'm still hoping cloning will be perfected this year so I can hand out different projects to my clones.

The main course of action will be to finish the novel, then edit it after some time away.  I will hopefully have time to write two more screenplays, I would like to finish a comedy short film idea I've had for a while now, and write up a few more comedy sketches.  Whew, it looks like it will be another time consuming and writing filled year.

Happy New Year from all of us at One-Eyed Pictures!