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etherical_angelconstantly just feel like im running out of time. while also staying up too late. i stay up late, sleep all day, then stay up late again and feel guilty for it. fuck my health fuck my brain FUCK my inability to do things anymore......
basically my current situation is that i need to finish a film by december. im stuck on the storyboarding. i have the dialog recorded, i have the script planned out, it was supposed to be a mocap film but since that didnt work out its now gonna be done through roto(i planned to let myself have 15 days to do so in case, which i ended up predicting correctly)(roto takes a lot longer as its manual). the thing is tho, just 17 seconds into the storyboards. ive come to the realization that....its boring. its 2 people talking back and forth. its gonna be a 5 minute long vent about something that only a select amount of people might even manage to comprehend. it may be cool and show off my way of thinking, but its definitely not something thatll grab the attention of the absolute stranger in charge of sifting through hundreds of college applications.
i need to basically brainstorm a film that i can film entirely on my own, in the environment that i live in. which is why i originally wanted to make a digital film. all through......i am going somewhere on the weekend. i could maybe film something there. something involving a character going back and forth. maybe a character collecting something in different places? or maybe just experiencing life there. trying to get something out of them.
or perhaps something is making them uncomfortable. something else is making them move from place to place.
alright, short film where a character tries to find a comfortable place to work on a script. it starts with them trying to get comfortable in their own room, but a voice in their head tells them that they need to get out more, which results in them taking off their headset. title card "discomfort". cut to roto character taking off headset in a virtual place, scrolling through a list of places. another character(their inner demon) shows up, looking over their shoulder, commenting on the places. they choose a nice park. cuts to protag at the park(all the irl stuff is first person), sitting under a tree, looking at their blank document. they type exterior day, but get stuck. the demon chimes in on how the place is too public, someone might see them like this. headset transition into the virtual place again. protag chooses another apartment. fast cuts of setting up at a desk. staring at the screen, staring out the window.. then tries setting up sitting on the bed. stick mentally blocked. transition to places like a library, a dock, and a porch staring at the sunset. the demon says other all these cuts that its not that fucking hard to start you know, at least for other people anyway, do you even know what youre doing? is this even what you want to be spending your time stressing over? a sigh from the protag. transition back to the digital world. the protag finally speaks 'why wont you let me work?' to which the demon replies 'i dont think you want to' -> 'bullshit' -> 'then go do it. go make something.' -> .... protag is back in their room. just standing there. then cuts to black.
now i have to actually make this into a script and hope its under 5 minutes -_-;
basically my current situation is that i need to finish a film by december. im stuck on the storyboarding. i have the dialog recorded, i have the script planned out, it was supposed to be a mocap film but since that didnt work out its now gonna be done through roto(i planned to let myself have 15 days to do so in case, which i ended up predicting correctly)(roto takes a lot longer as its manual). the thing is tho, just 17 seconds into the storyboards. ive come to the realization that....its boring. its 2 people talking back and forth. its gonna be a 5 minute long vent about something that only a select amount of people might even manage to comprehend. it may be cool and show off my way of thinking, but its definitely not something thatll grab the attention of the absolute stranger in charge of sifting through hundreds of college applications.
i need to basically brainstorm a film that i can film entirely on my own, in the environment that i live in. which is why i originally wanted to make a digital film. all through......i am going somewhere on the weekend. i could maybe film something there. something involving a character going back and forth. maybe a character collecting something in different places? or maybe just experiencing life there. trying to get something out of them.
or perhaps something is making them uncomfortable. something else is making them move from place to place.
alright, short film where a character tries to find a comfortable place to work on a script. it starts with them trying to get comfortable in their own room, but a voice in their head tells them that they need to get out more, which results in them taking off their headset. title card "discomfort". cut to roto character taking off headset in a virtual place, scrolling through a list of places. another character(their inner demon) shows up, looking over their shoulder, commenting on the places. they choose a nice park. cuts to protag at the park(all the irl stuff is first person), sitting under a tree, looking at their blank document. they type exterior day, but get stuck. the demon chimes in on how the place is too public, someone might see them like this. headset transition into the virtual place again. protag chooses another apartment. fast cuts of setting up at a desk. staring at the screen, staring out the window.. then tries setting up sitting on the bed. stick mentally blocked. transition to places like a library, a dock, and a porch staring at the sunset. the demon says other all these cuts that its not that fucking hard to start you know, at least for other people anyway, do you even know what youre doing? is this even what you want to be spending your time stressing over? a sigh from the protag. transition back to the digital world. the protag finally speaks 'why wont you let me work?' to which the demon replies 'i dont think you want to' -> 'bullshit' -> 'then go do it. go make something.' -> .... protag is back in their room. just standing there. then cuts to black.
now i have to actually make this into a script and hope its under 5 minutes -_-;
