I dunno if a topic like this allready exists but

if you like to write scripts and make your own films,ect...chat here (not porno's)

I am a filmmaker and my most recent film was made nearly a year ago.

Which film?

I write screenplays from time to time. I rarely finish them.

I don't record films, but I love directing in drama. I wrote a mini-play once for my sister about magic crystals. Well, a page anyway. She hated it.

Writing a play is completly differnt to writing a screenplay. There is a lot more things to considor.

I write scripts I'll post some when I get them copyright protected, As for films well I still have not finished one, I run out of money or interest before I complete them.

what genres are you guys interested in?

For me its noir, suspence, erotica, drama, sci-fi, experimental, black interest, and philosophical driven.

edit: I meant erotica not "exotica" cool movie though!

Yeah, it is indeed.
It is easy in drama class, we have the 'stage' there to work on our entrances and actions. I don't know how to go about writing a screen play.

Horror, suspense, comedey. Mainly.

I'm useless with romantic sub-plots. I completley gave up on them. You won't find them in a single screen play of mine.

Romance bothers me, it is never real.

I like doing funny plays, I must have a go at screen plays sometime. We will probably cover it in one of my many different drama groups.

It's fine in a romantic peice, but romantic sub-plots tick me off.

My friends an aspiring horror director, God knows how he's going to kickstart that dream, but I'll help him. I've read his scripts, some bizarre yet amazing stuff, he really gets into it when filming though.

lol, sorry, I should have said I am a hopefull to someday be a proffesional filmmaker

about genre's my first film was comedy, but ide like to write about history/historical fiction, suspense,action... a lot of stuff

My best friend and I want to be big screen filmmakers someday,I think my best friend would be pretty good because he has written tons of scripts.

I on the other hand have only written one, but I wanna write another

by the way I have a forum for filmmakers, check it out (PS:not porno films,just so knowone gets confused) click here

I'm probably gonna get a new forum because the URL sounds like a porno website,lol.

cool forum man!

Indeed.

If only I had the money to make a screenplay a reality. I just started a Silent Hill screenplay and an Invasion of the DALEKS screenplay (Featureing two new types of DALEK)

I'am an aspiring director.
I love watching movies a million times and finding out things in it that are wrong and don;t make any sense.
If and when i make a movie i want teverything to be perfect and nothing to be out of focus or anything like that.

I write movie scripts...not that anyone takes any notice!

You should like Martin Scorsese he feels the same way, but all directors should work with that intensity.

i'm a perfectionist as well.

That doesn't exactly make you a perfectionist. Some people like that feel, such as mistakes put in on purpose as Easter eggs. Like a sign in a butchers window of a zombie film saying 'Human thigh half price'.

Film school do you guys think its practical?

I think I should go to one, most of the succesful filmakers go to film school, I don't think I could ever get a film done by not going to one.

Any of you guys went to one?

I want to major in Cinematography when I go to college.

Well if I could record the images in my head then I could sell them as films. When I'm doing huge mail outs my mind wanders and soon My own film about Daleks is playing in my own head. It's awesome!

Who doesn;'t know Martin Scorsese?
He's one of the greatest fimlmakers of all time(To bad he hasn;t won an Acadamy Award)
Scorsese has made some great films.
1.Box Car Bertha
2.Raging Bull
3.Cape Fear
4.Goodfella's
5.Casino
6.Taxi Driver
7.New York,New York
8.Mean Streets
9.Alice Doesn;t Live Here Anymore
10.The Last Waltz

To name a few.

Its a hollywood conspiracy man!

anybody like Kubricks work?

Full Metal Jacket IMO was his best film, all of his other films were weird to say the least

A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove are good movies if you are old enough to understand them.

clockwork orage and strangelove is way better then full metal jacket, in fact i thoght Full metal jacket was his worse out of all his films, but it was still a good movie!

I think you are the only person on the planet that would list Boxcar Bertha number 1 on a list of Scorcese films. Not that Barbara Hershey wasn't a hottie, but still. It was a very clunky, silly, over-the-top sort of film. But hey, we've all got to start somewhere.

Well I'm only 18 and I undersand them

Right now I'm studying civil engineering (first year), but my dream is to study cinematography after getting my diploma

Fav genres: action, sci-fi, comedy (though I suck at it )
And my fav Kubrick movie would have to be 2001. Awesome, though I think the ending was kinda weird

Hey!
I'm a filmmaker (see avatar). Currently still studying at the Dutch filmschool, but involved in some professional productions. All Dutch of course.
At the moment I'm a sound engineer, that includes sound recording as well as sound designing, editing and mixing. However, I'm writing a script for a 5 minute film which I want to direct myself next year. Basically I read some posts of this forum and that gave me a good idea to fit in 5 minutes.
I already have further plans for a 15 minute film and a 25 minute film. After that, I think I'll go for 90 minutes, but that's so far into the future, I'll see if I like it as much as I think I will

I now go and check out your forum.

I like Ron howards work as a director, Apollo 13 was one of my favorite movies when I was really young

What kind of Camcorder would I need to shoot a movie?

I've made like, 20 documentaries with a camcorder. Me and my buds would get together on a long weekend and do something to make a documentary about. Usually a road trip to somewhere like North Carolina or Mississippi. We went to Arkansas once but let's just say we had a problem with a trucker. Made for a funny documentary though.

Ah, the memories...We still watch them, about an hour in length, still funny as crap. We're thinking about doing something this 4th of July, maybe a little trip to Kentucky.

hmm...I've only produced a few things... I feel like a nub.

its been a year since I could make a film. i'm gettin the itch to do so. ive been wanting to make a WW2 film. I could sell crap on Ebay for pre-production.