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.

The Hunger Games movie

   It's going to be awesome. I read all of the books in the series last year, and now The Hunger Games is second on my list of favorite books. (Number one is Harry Potter, of  course.) And it's still one of my favorite books, even though Mockingjay, the last book in The Hunger Games series was kind of a let down for me. I'm just going to leave it at that for those of you who haven't read it yet.

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.)

Posting again

   I haven't been posting much lately because of Christmas and everything, but I'll probably start posting more now.
   By the way, I did get the stop motion animation kit, so I'm making my own movies now. I'll probably post one of them once I finish one, but right now I'm just playing around with the camera and making test movies.

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.