Short happenings

[guanin]

1. I got an interview for a photgraphy internship on Tuesday. The email arrived the very morning after I left the old internship. Very interesting timing.

2. Zoo on Friday! I'm headed out with the grandparents and a couple of cousins I haven't seen in a while.

3. I'm 40 pages into my feature script.

4. I probably should go before I'm late yet again.

Comments

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

The zoo! That sounds like fun. As does your feature script.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

It does. It's beautiful outside and the temperatures should hold up until tomorrow. The script... is coming along. It's a really simple love story. I'm basically writing it because it's the only mainstream idea I could get and yet it's set in the 1890s Mexico, so not that mainstream. But is is fun, if a little shorter than I need it to be. I really need to flesh out the second half a lot more.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

It's a really gorgeous day today here, too. It's almost unnerving. I don't trust it.

Oooh, a period piece. Those are always fun.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Well, the Tstorms are rolling in here on Saturday, but it is spring. And snow in May is not unheard of.

They are! It's a shame the industry doesn't think so. The world needs more period pieces.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's crazy. Snow in May! I like it when it's cool in spring, but not that cool. There would be no cherry blossoms!

Aw, well, it's hard to sell them with the amount of sex necessary. Violence, maybe.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I've never seen it, but I hear it happens,

Actually, it's the perceived lack of interest, probably since so many people think history is "boring". Period pieces (except WWII flicks) don't make as much money as anything else, the budget automatically increases due to the particular locations you need, period costumes, props, etc., research to make sure the little details are right for the period, making sure nothing modern accidentally falls into the shot when filming on location (like happened on LOTR, which had a car in the distance during one of the scenic shots and no one noticed until it was out in the theatres). Now that I'm thinking about shooting my short (it's the same subject as the feature), the complications are cropping up.

My little story doesn't even have sex. Or violence. Well, there is this one scene, but it's nothing in the film world.