EXTReeeME.Org

I had to rebuild my Company’s Website to make it international. Was a lot of work. Everything, except the old posts shoulb be in english and German now.
While doing this a lot of cool Blogposts poped up, so I’ll do a Roundup here to get in sync again:
Interviews

George A. Romero’s Handheld Horror - Romero about [...]

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The fourth Day writing the Screenplay. Pages 45-60. 50% of the first edition are done. But slowly a Problem appears. My Story seems to be not compatible with the Idea of Drama, as used in the Book. So there are two “dramatis personae” which are equal in it’s meaning. Also does the Blueprint of my [...]

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Zhura Website
Last Week I told you about Celtx. A Screenwriting Tool. Zhursa seems to be the same as the Screenwriting-Part of celtx, just as an online tool. It also focuses on colaborative working and, what i really like, on Version historys. You can see your Changes, undo them, compare them. Very Nice.
I don’t know if [...]

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Third day of the Livetest. Pages 30-45. This was the first Time I really saw it differ. If I’d written the way I do normally this would never have happen. My Characters did things I didn’t think about before. Normally I work Top to Bottom. Which means building a overview and then work my self [...]

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Character?
What’s Charakter? Hard to tell. Cinemoose tries it and sweeps away some of the missunderstandings regarding Characters in movies.
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Yesterday I’ve written 20 Pages. Which means that I’m now at 30 Pages. Works fine, but I had some Problems filling the 20 Pages. But that’s my Problem, as I write another way.
But they look good. I had some holes in the workflow, but it made me think another way about it which works [...]

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I’ve written the first 10 Pages. Speedwriting. Very interesting.
Today I’ll do 20 more. I’ve re-read the first 10 Pages and am surprised. They look good for a first draft. I wrote for about 1 Hour and 20 Minutes, 2 hours were writen as maximum for the first day. Today there are 3 Hours planed. [...]

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Everything starts with a Screenplay. Well. In Fact with the Idea for the writer, but most of the Guys working at the movies see the screenplay at first.
But how do you write a screenplay? How do you layout a Screenplay? Which Software should you use? This is what the Feature of the Month is [...]

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Cloverfield
Anne Thompson at Variety.com writes about two Films that seem to be very different. Big-Budget Cloverfield and Low-Budget Paranormal Activity. But they both do it the Blairwich-Way: Take unknown Actors and make it look f’n real.
And besides the Fact that they both use the Blairwich-Theme as an Inspiration they both have something in common. They [...]

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No. Even as I haven’t posted every day technicaly this isn’t day 3. But its the third day I writa about it, so it is okay. What I’ve done:
I’ve written a logline for it which says what my movie wants to be(come). After That I’ve written about my characters wants and needs, and what the [...]

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