Never mind.

Forget about what I said earlier about not having an idea...I just thought of something awesome, although it will definitely be too hard to film. I'll probably still write it, though, and maybe post some of it soon.

Out of ideas

Now that The Decayed is finished, I'm trying to think of good idea for another screenplay. I'm trying to think of an idea that's good, but isn't too hard for me to film like my last script was.

So far since the end of April, I've started outlining three different screenplays, one of them comedy and the other two horror. I might go with one of those ideas, but right now I'm not sure.

I'll post some of my new idea when I decide on what to do. For now, though, I have to edit the script I already wrote.

Here's an except...

Here's a small excerpt from my script I'm writing this April. It's about thirty pages so far, and I'm hoping I can reach eighty or more before the 30th.

*   *   *

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM - morning

Carl sits at the table as usual. Across from him are Dan, a cop, and Ron, the police chief.

RON

You need to tell us something.

CARL

How can I? I didn't do it,

so I have nothing to tell you.

I don't even know anything!

Ron looks at Dan.

DAN

We should tell him. It might

make him want to talk to us.

Ron turns to Carl.

RON

All right. They've found

something in the crater.

cut to:

EXT. CRATER

A split second scene of the crater. Two cops are walking around it.

cut to:

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM

CARL

What?

cut to:

EXT. CRATER

Another split second scene of the crater. Two cops are still walking around it.

cut to:

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM

RON

Bones.

*   *   *
And by the way, I know it isn't formatted very well. I copy/pasted it over from Celtx, and all the formatting was automatically removed.

It's a little confusing, I know. That's because this scene takes place on, like, page twenty.

But basically, Carl is accused of murdering people in the town. A large crater then appears later outside the town, and the police suspect that Carl is disposing of his victims in the hole. In this scene, they actually find bones in the crater, so we now are almost completely sure Carl did it.

Crater

For now, my script will be titled "Crater." I know, it's a pretty lame title, but I'll try to think of a better one later.

Anyway, I've been thinking about filming my script after I finish it...but the problem is, I don't think I will be able to find enough good actors. There's also a part near the end of the movie where these zombie-things dig their way out from underground, and start killing everyone in sight. And that could be a little hard to film in a low-budget movie. So...anyone want to give me $60,000,000 to make a movie?

Finally.

I finished outlining my script...meaning I wrote a complete summary of it, so this April, all I have to do is start writing, and I don't have to think of any ideas.

Death Troopers movie poster

I was bored today, so I scanned the Death Troopers book cover onto my computer, and edited it some in Picasa.

Yes! I got it...

I just thought of a good idea for a screenplay last night, so now I have a basic idea of what I'm going to write during Script Frenzy. But I already have enough other projects to do right now, so I won't end up actually writing the script until April, when Script Frenzy starts. (If you haven't already signed up for Frenzy, you really should, by the way.)

Gah! I can't decide!

You've probably already heard this, but this April, I'm planning on writing an entire script in thirty days. For more details, see this site.

Anyway, even though it's about a month away, I'm still trying to think of an idea for what to write. I've got a few horror movie ideas, so I might want to go with one of those. Or maybe I could do an action/thriller kind of thing.

But I have to finish editing my novel before I start on a script, though until I start writing, I should get an idea.

The two stick people who were almost killed by an eraser but survived and lived long, happy lives.

Here's my latest video I just filmed a few minutes ago. It's a little confusing, but basically, two stick people appear on a dry erase board. One of them has no head at first, but it appears later. And then, an evil paper towel walks across the board, but our two heroes miraculously survive. Curtain.

Cupcake Deathmatch

Here's a video I made today with my stop motion kit. I'm still making a lot of test videos, but I'm currently writing a screenplay adaption of Star Wars: Death Troopers, a book by Joe Schreiber. It's basically about a bunch of zombies that attack a prison barge in the middle of space, and Han Solo and Chewbacca get caught in the middle of it. The book is about 234 pages long, and so far, I'm about halfway done with the script, which is 41 pages long so far.

Anyway, I kinda gave up on the whole PumpkiNed thing...or at least for now. I realized soon after getting the stop motion kit that this script was way too elaborate, even for a stop motion film. I might try to do something with the storyline later, but for now, I'm busy making a zombie horror film with Legos. (And yes, Star Wars zombie horror movies are easier to make than a movie about a guy with a pumpkin for a head. Or at least I hope. I haven't actually started filming Death Troopers yet.)

Script writing

   I have some pretty good script writing software called "Celtx" which was a free download.  I don't know the web adress of the Celtx site, but Googling "Celtx" might get you to it. 

   I heard about it on a script writing website from the company that does NaNoWrimo (ywp.scriptfrenzy.org.) 

   I also once heard that Celtx is good for beginners, but a professional should get this other software that I can't remember the name of, which costs around two hundred dollars.  Honestly, I don't see the point in buying that. 

   I mean, Celtx does everything you need, script formatting wise, and also has story board making software built in to it.  So really, why do you need to spend two hundred dollars on the same software? 

   Um, okay...I should stop.  This is starting to get too much like a commercial.  But seriously, Celtx is worth getting.  I've written about a hundred pages of scripts since I got it last month.

New screenplay

   I don't have much else to post about, so I decided to post an excerpt from a screenplay I started working on last night.

EXT. Deckor city - morning 

JARED HOLMES, age twenty three, is walking through the city through the large crowds.  The song "What I got" is playing, as he makes his way to his apartment.

When he reaches it, he goes in the front door, and enters a seedy looking front lobby.

INT. Apartment lobby - morning

He walks through, ignored by the man at the counter, and goes into an elevator.

INT. Elevator - morning

He pushes the button for the floor his room is on, and the elevator does nothing.  Jared kicks the floor, and it starts going up.

after a second, he has to pry the door open, and then walks down the dirty and old hall to get to his room.

INT. Jared's room - hallway - morning

He walks down the hall, to his door.  He reaches into his pocket, and gets his key.  He has trouble getting the door to unlock, but finally forces it open.

INT. Jared's ROOM - MORNING

He walks inside, pausing for a moment to look at the small room that is his home. 

It is mostly empty, with an old futon to one side, and an oven on the other.  There is a small beanbag chair, which is ripped open.  Jared sees this, and...

Jared: Gregor!

A small dog, GREGOR walks out from the small bathroom, with a guilty look on his face.

Jared: (Continued) Don't ever chew up the beanbag chair again.  I can't...

He sighs, and plops down on the futon.  He turns on the TV, and starts watching a show.

After a few seconds, he glances sideways at the clock on the TV tray beside him that says 6:59, and gasps.

He sits up quickly, and walks over to the window.  He pulls the shade down when a bizarre grinding sound is heard.  Gregor whimpers.

Jared picks the dog up, and opens a hatch on the floor.  The inside is completely dark.  He goes inside, shutting the trapdoor.  The sound of him latching the chain lock is heard from inside.

There is a one second pause, when everything is quiet.  Then suddenly, the sound of a futuristic laser is heard, so loud, it's deafening.  It lasts for a few seconds, and after it stops, the TV and everything else goes black except for the small glowing blue digital clock beside Jared's futon. 

The sound of him unlatching the chain lock is heard, as the trap door slowly opens a crack, enough for him to look at the clock.  It still says 6:59.

He stares at it anxiously, until the number changes to a countdown:

The number 3 appears on the clock, as Jared jumps, and lowers his head, closing the hatch.

2, he latches the chain.

1, the sound of a scream is heard, and everything stops.

EXT. DECKOR CITY - MORNING

The city is very dark like night in the city, as we look down at it from high up in the air.  We hear a faint noise like that of a tornado in the distance.

After a second of taking in all of this, we start to barely make out some dark shapes moving through the deserted city...

   There you go.  I know it isn't professionally formatted like a real script, and that's because when I copied and pasted  it over from the file it was in, it removed all of the formatting, so I had to redo it on here.  And this post box isn't made for script formatting. 

Update

   I disassembled the movie sets for PumpkiNed because my crazy cats were about to destroy them if I left them out in the house for much longer.

   I'm putting filming the movie on hold for right now.  I need some good animation software, which I hope I'll get for Christmas.  Until then, I'll be mostly just working on scripts, and the book my cousin and I are writing, which is going very good so far.

   Also, I just came up with an idea for a story about an hour ago...but I probably won't start outlining it until a month or so, when my cousin and I are almost done, or done with our book.  It's going so smoothly and fast, though, it shouldn't be long until we finish it.

PumkiNed movie

   I've been working on my novel a lot lately, and haven't thought about posting much on here.  But I decided to post today about my movie I'm making.  I know I should be working on my novel, but I usually like doing a few projects at once, so I don't get bored on one of them.  And making the movie isn't decreasing the time I work on my book, anyway. 

   My movie, by the way, is actually just a fifteen minute short, but I'm using stop motion animation for it, so it'll probably take a while to film.  I already have a fourteen page script, and I'm working on the sets right now.  My two little brothers are helping a lot, too.  They came up with a lot of jokes, and added a few pages to my script, and also help with set building.

   The movie is called "PumpkiNed" and it's basically about a guy named Ned with a pumpkin for a head who moves to this town full of weird aliens in the Star Wars galaxy.

   He tries to get a job, but no one hires him.  Then he meets the odd astronaut Johnny Nesbit, who tries to help Ned get a job.  They have this entire crazy adventure, involving a corrupt cashier, and pack of vicious wolves, and some hippie mountain lions.

   I already have a few ideas for the second one.  I'm actually planning to make it a ten part saga.  I might post a video of something of the movie  later, but right now, I haven't even started filming.