Anthony Caputo's Lounge Discussions

My kit has a full size tripod, a mono pod, 33000 to 56000 k led video light a portable 3 wheel dolly for my tripod 1 boom mic 1 stick mic

Currently finishing our first short done with principal filming now off to post production

Welcome sir!

Very nice, my friend. Congrats on graduating!

Fantastic to have you and your talents here with us, Scott!

Thanx Sam and Sadie. Only discovered Stage 32 very recently. Like what I see here.

welcome aboard

@Andrew - yep a student film, and no the actual credits of the film made no mention of the writer, but she did credit me on the Youtube page itself. @Beth - thanks! And I agree re the missed teaching opportunity. I've given students permission on my short before, but usually stipulate that they don't upload it anywhere and just use for class - of course, you need to be asked first.

@Beth: I'm tired of the "only a short" excuse for non-payment and non-credit. I've been paid more for short films than features. Many great works of art started as something small. The Daria television series began when the character made a small appearance on Beavis and Butthead. Short stories, which are often bought by the few fiction magazines scraping by in the digital age, turn into novels. Even if the students gave credit, it wasn't their work to use.They didn't create the script, the characters or the setting. Writers are a key and undervalued component of the film-making process. As for it being a teaching moment, American students are lectured on plagiarism in almost each and every class starting in grade school. They knew better and stole a script anyway. Ownership is a concept that permeates global cultures. It's hard to imagine an ethnic group that's connected to the internet not understanding why stealing someone's work is wrong.

Anthony: Any instructor saying a copyright doesn't matter is probably teaching at clown college or Immoral University. You always have to get permission to use copyrighted material. Here's an interesting link about some American screenwriters and their lawsuits for copyright infringement. http://www.law360.com/articles/591491/plot-thickens-for-screenplay-infri... http://www.copylaw.com/new_articles/movie_infring.html

Thanks Tony, I'm the same, made much more from shorts, know I'll never make a living from them or anything but I like them. Dan, she is, she's apologised and seems sincere and the movie has been taken down from Youtube. Phillip - thanks mate, interesting reading! And agree, permission should always be sought but I genuinely think there's some confused educators out there who think they are applying 'fair use' principles and advising students accordingly ;-(

Sorry that happened, Anthony. I haven't made use of SimplyScripts in many months. It's good she got back to you. This is why I'm iffy about posting a full script online for public access. I'm okay with putting up a sample, but I've taken down all my shorts from various sites. If people want to read, they need to contact me directly and that way I can keep tabs!

I don't know... some of those sonnets are pretty musical... :)

Paul Simon poetry to music great poet/song writer

Now as a poet I can say this listening to poetry over music isn't an unfamiliar or new territory as over the years many poets have made some of the best albums with listening too. Gill Scott-The Revolution Will Not Be Televised The Last Poets and even Jack Kerouac. But if we want to take it a step further Hip Hop its self has been the rawest form of poetry made and has proven that if done right poetry can be listened too.

There must be some similarity, since Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature as a songwriter

I would say, from personal experience that the poet and song writer produce their words based on the soul, that reaches to thought as a release to pursue this effort. They have more in common than not.

Good luck!