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Wonderful comment and insight and I'm definitely going to check those scripts out as well. 💪🏽

Facts! A lot of advice only works under specific circumstances! We need to understand that!

Thank you! I try my best to remind myself and in my vids that my advice is based primarily off my experience and not gospel. Everything can both be helpful and harmful. Also, it's awesome to hear these are helpful! Appreciate it 🙏🏽

Just become an executive and you'll make $90M a year to do nothing.

Indeed! It's cliche but the best thing you can do is focus on the stuff you can control and do your best to preserve your best work!

Thank you!

Haven't seen it!

You can add a slug e.g. COLD OPEN > EXT./INT. LOCATION >> Start your scene 🤙 Remember you can communicate anything you think needs to be understood by the reader of your script. Just make sure it's short and to the point 👉🏽

Can you tell me if Cold Open should be noted in the opening script slug line and if so, what that would look like?

@@lowriters Thank you so much!

@v.j.morrison1784 it can be done like a scene header or I've seen it where people put the scene header then in the action line start it with: COLD OPEN on California sky. On the Breaking Bad pilot they actually right TEASER and have it centered at the top. You can kind of take liberty with it, just so long as the reader understands that it's a cold open.

@@v.j.morrison1784 My pleasure!

It's definitely a game in the business. Ultimately the current trends of the time get sweeped out and the opposite will be the next big compromise a lot of writers/directors will be pushed to bend to. I think ultimately what happens is much like you explained, studios get hung up on labels (e.g. strong female led) which waters down the quality. You look at James Cameron and the female leads he created, yes they are "strong female characters" but I doubt he was even thinking that language when writing those characters. I believe he focused in just writing a great character then decided at some point to make them a woman because he felt it truly enhanced the narrative (which it did). Essentially, a lot of stuff is very committee/think group driven. I've dealt with it myself with some gigs I've had e.g. this character needs a love interest to make them interesting (even when it doesn't enhance the story whatsoever).

That´s how we get movies like Madame Web, a movie so awful that even the actresses are embarassed enough to mock it (Dakota even left the world premiere by the backdoor, refusing to watch it) while it stills in the movie theaters. Creativity commanded by a committee results in a broken product, a Frankenstein´s Monster of a movie, stitched all together. Now withAIs, Hollywood can make even worse movies, devoid of any human emotions, made with countless checkboxes that the producers want to include. And there´s never enough checkboxes to add, in this era of almost infinite reshoots, just look at Captain America 4 being almost entirely redone or Indy 5 that had reshoots that costed more than the 4 entire movies that came before it.

I was surprised about that too. I do know that RT loosened their criteria on a "qualified reviewer" so it allows for more skewed aggregated results.

its fake, everything is fake

That's a very interesting set up! Kinda jealous (in a supportive way) I didn't come up with it myself lol I would say as long as there is a clear theme to connect the two or the two characters have contrasts that really compliment each other (even tho they are on separate narratives) in a way that allows the audience to discover something meaningful about their journeys, I think you'll have a real home run here. I guess an idea to mull over is maybe the methods each uses is technically the right method but wrong case. In other words Detective A would be successful if he was on Case B and Detective B would be successful if he was on Case A but by sheer cruel fate they are doomed to be where they're at and the audience can discover this as the narratives "wrap up". Almost like a tragedy. I hope that makes sense lol

Same. I genuinely was sold on the first episode but was left disappointed to say the least. She has a Spanish speaking film called Tigers Are Not Afraid (if I remember correctly) that's a very well done film (flawed but worth the watch). So she definitely has some level of skill to pull something good off.

Mexican and much of Latin American entertainment is obsessed with magic realism and this comes through with Night Country. That philosophy is way different than the tone of True Detective. It just didn't work for me.

Not necessarily. Titles don't always mean authority in big studio/network stuff. When a script I had was at Paramount they were intending to have it rewritten without my input because that's just how it goes. You also have to be aware that deals come with strings attached e.g. HBO made it mandatory for Issa to connect it to S1 in order to get the greenlight from them. Whoever is bank rolling ultimately has the final say in "do it this way". Yes she can push back but it has its limitations. But that's also assumption. This could have been all her ideas with zero push back from HBO. We don't really know for sure but can only go off what I've experienced at smaller scales and what friends of mine experienced at higher scales. Also good to know that technically this is HBO's property, not something Issa birthed from scratch (TD "universe"). So when you are hired on to a pre existing series, you're more of a "gun for hire" than someone who is nurturing something you created yourself.

@@lowritersThank you. very edifying. Personally, my biggest problem with the style of "connection" to S1 ( and I don't think I'm the only one) was that it was mostly a ham-handed "memberberry" kind of thing.

@urielthelesser agree big time. I think that is pretty undeniable too so I can't really see how she can defend that choice tbh. The whole business side of things such a labrynth as well which is why it's considered a "mircale" when anything good gets made.

Agreed. I appreciate the time and response. Love your videos!@@lowriters

@urielthelesser you're welcome! Glad you're digging the vids! Appreciate the support 🙏🏽

I felt the same overall. I think it had some high-highs but some very low-lows. The tie-ins to S1 were definitely pointless as well.

@lowriters Forgot about those tie-ins but I think it was the only trick they can use to keep us watching.

@neoluthuli3254 indeed, it's what kept me hooked too but it fizzled out so quick!

Unfortunately

Yep! She was bound to get another project somewhere because of the high viewership. I think in the vid I state this but can't remember exactly cause I was half asleep. I am tho surprised it's another True Detective season vs her own separate from it. I still think the high viewership had more to do with the IP and people possibly hate watching because the consensus among majority of fans is pretty clear they did not like this season. It reminds me of The Idol which had very high viewership but also audiences panned it (and critics too). We shall see.

I can definitely see that working 💪🏽 A writer I met a while back would do sets of push ups before they wrote-said something similar that the increase in blood flow got them energized for their session haha

This comment really made my day! That's really the reason why I started doing these videos because when I began pursuing this "career" path I wish I had some resource of information to help me with my decisions. Even if I don't ever "make it big" I'm hoping someone like you and anyone else who watches these can use the information that applies to them and find a way to break into the industry 🙏🏽

@@lowriters I feel the same exact way man. In that regard, have you heard of a book called writing for the green light?

I have not but I have heard of it I believe (the title sounds very familiar). Is it something you recommend?

@@lowriters he is all about the creating relationships side of the business. I have only listened to him speak I haven’t read his book yet but I can confidently recommend it because of what he has mentioned from it. His thing is showing someone on the outside how to some how some way start chipping away at the wall between you and get some damn eyes. That “I can confidently recommend” part really seemed like one of those scammy fake conversation starters you see in comments where they end up saying like miss diane june helped me sell my script haha.

Yes indeed. I forgot to add that some things I wrote for the practice script I ended up using in other scripts e.g. scenes, dialogue, plot points. I always consider all the scripts you write for practice as a cache of ammo you can use for the scripts you write that you want to be taken serious.

@@lowriters oh definitely, that’s a biggie for sure. And I’ve actually heard many writers say they done that, from screenwriters to novelists etc

@@arzabael nice! I'll order it and check it out for sure!

I mention in the video (or at minimum numerous other vids) you should always be writing as many scripts for practice and to sharpen your skills-NOT to sell a script but to learn certain attributes to become a better writer. Nowhere in this do I state you're trying to sell these or show them to anyone and even state you should be writing scripts that never see the light of day because it's to improve. You're overlooking that context and interpreting the message too subjectively. Also, I always state these are recommended ideas, you don't have to do anything you don't want to.

Thank you!

Thank you! I'm trying to do my best to not ramble or overexplain anything 😅

🙏🏽 Thank you compa

That's awesome and appreciated so much! Glad the vids are helpful, that's the goal!

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And thank you for watching and commenting!

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This is a really good inquiry and something that definitely is difficult to figure out. I'm assuming you're obstacle is how to get your new work after a break out there without self producing?

Thank you and glad that the approach I'm taking is beneficial! My goal is to provide solutions to a lot obstacles I faced during my "come up".

Absolutely! I've actually been working on a video that tackles that general concept from different angles.

I recently started doing that again. Even after all these years I realized it's still one of the most helpful things to do.