I have watched and rewatched many of your vids. They are always full of good information and you present it in an engaging manner. Thank you. Everything I have seen from you has to do with feature-length films. While I have several of those simmering in the background, my first script is for a short. So... Can you do a vid on shorts, mostly on structuring them and character depth? Please? Thanks for considering this.
Thank You for this. Do you have a similar video on pitches? I scored 33 out of 35 on my written pitch and had favourable notes but also some fixes that I definitely will do. But, despite the high marks, it was still considered a pass. What would be some of the reasons for that? Maybe a future video on that.
My next video, actually, will talk a bit about this... scripts can be fine and still get a pass because of a couple of other key things readers want and need a script to have before it can be a Consider. Hopefully that next vid will help.
In my latest script I started writing with a clear protagonist. But in writing I found that the antagonist was actually a more interesting character and drove the movie more than the protagonist, who was mostly reacting. However, by the end of the movie the antagonist has been reformed, so I wonder if this character could in fact be both the protagonist and antagonist, with the original protagonist being a supporting character. The antagonist does share the same clear goal as the original protagonist, so the story is still about someone who wants something, has difficulty getting it, and in this case doesn't get it. I could "fix" this problem (and I suppose this video is telling me I damn well should) but I feel it would make for a less interesting movie.
EDIT: There ain't much engagement here, but in case anyone reads this I came across the concept of a group protagonist e.g. avengers. I think my story works under that premise where 3 characters are fighting towards one goal, with one of those characters simply going too far in trying to achieve that goal setting himself against the other two protagonists, but with them all being aligned at the end once more.
Had a lot of comments... trying to get through them all. For the story noted above, just swap the titles... call your current antagonist the protagonist, make it their story, and now the "good guy" is the antagonist. That's perfectly fine. And if you do a group, think of it more like a "Disaster movie" in that the group is trying to survive, but they have different goals they want to employ to achieve it... so the "earthquake" is really the antagonist, but how do you survive said earthquake? Everyone has a different take, and it may pit them against one another, which is actually what you want and makes things more interesting.
@@BigRedStripethanks for the reply. I went with making the antagonist the protagonist, placing them centrally in the first scene and the last with a clear arc, and going from being an antihero to a hero by the end (albeit one who still has the same goal).
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I have watched and rewatched many of your vids. They are always full of good information and you present it in an engaging manner. Thank you.
Everything I have seen from you has to do with feature-length films. While I have several of those simmering in the background, my first script is for a short. So...
Can you do a vid on shorts, mostly on structuring them and character depth? Please? Thanks for considering this.
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Thank You for this. Do you have a similar video on pitches? I scored 33 out of 35 on my written pitch and had favourable notes but also some fixes that I definitely will do. But, despite the high marks, it was still considered a pass. What would be some of the reasons for that? Maybe a future video on that.
My next video, actually, will talk a bit about this... scripts can be fine and still get a pass because of a couple of other key things readers want and need a script to have before it can be a Consider. Hopefully that next vid will help.
@@BigRedStripe Thanks. I look forward to seeing that video. Cheers.
In my latest script I started writing with a clear protagonist. But in writing I found that the antagonist was actually a more interesting character and drove the movie more than the protagonist, who was mostly reacting. However, by the end of the movie the antagonist has been reformed, so I wonder if this character could in fact be both the protagonist and antagonist, with the original protagonist being a supporting character. The antagonist does share the same clear goal as the original protagonist, so the story is still about someone who wants something, has difficulty getting it, and in this case doesn't get it.
I could "fix" this problem (and I suppose this video is telling me I damn well should) but I feel it would make for a less interesting movie.
EDIT: There ain't much engagement here, but in case anyone reads this I came across the concept of a group protagonist e.g. avengers. I think my story works under that premise where 3 characters are fighting towards one goal, with one of those characters simply going too far in trying to achieve that goal setting himself against the other two protagonists, but with them all being aligned at the end once more.
Had a lot of comments... trying to get through them all. For the story noted above, just swap the titles... call your current antagonist the protagonist, make it their story, and now the "good guy" is the antagonist. That's perfectly fine.
And if you do a group, think of it more like a "Disaster movie" in that the group is trying to survive, but they have different goals they want to employ to achieve it... so the "earthquake" is really the antagonist, but how do you survive said earthquake? Everyone has a different take, and it may pit them against one another, which is actually what you want and makes things more interesting.
@@BigRedStripethanks for the reply. I went with making the antagonist the protagonist, placing them centrally in the first scene and the last with a clear arc, and going from being an antihero to a hero by the end (albeit one who still has the same goal).