This is a brief excerpt from NoFilmSchool
I wrote recently about finishing the screenplay for my feature MANCHILD (for now… ), but it’s been a while since I talked about what else is going on in the trenches of first-time feature filmmaking. The title of the post gives it away: we’re making a short. Why are we doing this? And why do I think this strategy makes a lot of sense for other first-time feature directors? Because there are millions of people with a screenplay, all trying to figure out how to get from here (words on a page) to there (actual finished movie). If your goal seems impossibly far off, that’s when it’s time to bite off a smaller chunk and show what you’re capable of.
“What have you directed lately?”When someone likes your script, the next logical question you’re going to be asked as a writer-director is, “what have you directed lately?” If you’ve never directed before… you’re probably going to have a hard time getting your feature made. If you have directed before but your material is of a different genre than your feature script, if it’s in a different style, if it’s dated …
By: Ryan Koo
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