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An important part of a screenplay is the title. How do you come up with a name for your movie?
Thanks for all of your comments! Now I'm more confused than before!!! Just kidding! You all have been very helpful!
Titles are the last thing I think about. Start writing your script. Finish the rough. Set the script aside for several months. Re-write. Polish. Let others have a read. Then start all over again. If y...
Expand commentTitles are the last thing I think about. Start writing your script. Finish the rough. Set the script aside for several months. Re-write. Polish. Let others have a read. Then start all over again. If you have spent the time creating a marketable, quality story with great characters and awesome arcs on paper, clever plot, sub plot with consistent plot points in a valid three act form, with solid dialogue; you will come up with plenty of titles. Logline becomes easy. Synopsis is like poetry off thy tongue. TITLES ARE THE LAST THING ONE SHOULD THINK ABOUT. If the script is good, and bought, those that buy will do what they do. All about money and marketing at that point. Just use 'working titles'.
Thanks Don. I'm actually shooting it myself. I was just seeing what others do for titles.
Title name in the beginning of film making is concentrated about the theme of a story, and before the completion of the films probably do an accurate story of the name of the combination.
It almost seems like the title falls out of the story,or a song,By the pictures you see in your head,But then you have to twist it a little to make it catchy and marketable for what ever crowed your targeting,One word can mean many different things,To many People..It will come to you Ray !!
What is your favorite actor of all time?
Robert De Niro, Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman and Leonardo DiCaprio
Denzel Washington
Tough call... There's so many damn good actors... But for me, it really comes down to versatility - how versatile an actor can be in one part, how complex he/she can make the character in the defined...
Expand commentTough call... There's so many damn good actors... But for me, it really comes down to versatility - how versatile an actor can be in one part, how complex he/she can make the character in the defined time limits of a film. It's a delicate art, and some excels more than others. Contemplating who my favorite actor of all time is, quite a few names came up. But I'll narrow it down some. I love DeNiro, Pacino, Nicholson, Walken, all the great method actors of our time. But one actor has really stuck with me, and that is Gary Oldman. Every character he portrays has a different accent than the other. He can be the most frightening villain or the most compassionate family man. There's a wide variety of parts he has portrayed, and every one is memorable. From Dracula to Lee Harvey Oswald, Drexl Spivey to Commissioner Gordon, Gary Oldman is a master in his craft. But I feel I can't mention an actor without mention an actress... There are so many talented actresses, and I think Meryl Streep is fantastic. but I'm gonna be a little unorthodox and choose another. Kelly Macdonald. "Who?" you might say, but she's in my opinion the most gifted actress out there. Take a look at Trainspotting. Then watch No Country For Old Men. And then see her in Boardwalk Empire. Nuff said, I'll let her performances speak, since I've already written far more than I thought I was going to in this post. :-)
Johnny D, Denzel and Kevin S
Living: Ewan McGregor, largely due to Moulin Rouge, but he's often cast in either overly energetic or romanticized roles, which I like. Dead: Gene Kelly, cause nobody has ever been able to dance quite like that man could (except, perhaps, Fred Astaire).
"You're an irrational, emotional, drug addicted, alcohol dependent disaster adept at facilitating his own reality. And you're easily the most brilliant person I've ever met. But you're a fuck up anywhere but on paper and I can't love words anymore." The truth is the ugliest thing in the world. I thi...
Expand post"You're an irrational, emotional, drug addicted, alcohol dependent disaster adept at facilitating his own reality. And you're easily the most brilliant person I've ever met. But you're a fuck up anywhere but on paper and I can't love words anymore." The truth is the ugliest thing in the world. I think that's why we all lie so easily as humans. We want things to be beautiful even amidst the ugliness. I wish she would've lied, but being true to the woman I fell so helplessly in love with she didn't. She was the one the person I truly feared. I had shared all my truths with her and she used them. Breaking the heart I had never shared before. In the past 2 years I've done exactly what I'm best at. I wrote. Every word and sentence an attempt to reach her. Hoping she might hear me, whether it be TV or book. An occasional article or blog she reads one day. I am by no means successful at my craft, but I do make a living doing it. Putting pen to paper or fingertips to keyboard. I've fucked countless others, loved another. But at the end of the day she's always my last thought. The first thing I see when I close my eyes. Bringing about the fear of sleep from which I often suffer. So its the vices that she hated, to which I reach and rely. Retooled to hopefully make the memory of her die. But more often I find myself imprisoned in a tiring sleep. Waking only when I smell her scent faked by an imposter I defiled in a meaningless attempt to avoid a night alone. Leading always and only to an awkward first cup of coffee. To me she is lost. My first of a life I now loathe.
I write. Shocked? Me too. I tweet and whore myself to Hollywood hoping to one day rot your brain with my own brand of humor or win an Oscar. "Who" and "Whom" still give me issues, despite my chosen profession. Quite possibly the best book I've ever read is "King Dork" even though, I know one day Mic...
Expand postI write. Shocked? Me too. I tweet and whore myself to Hollywood hoping to one day rot your brain with my own brand of humor or win an Oscar. "Who" and "Whom" still give me issues, despite my chosen profession. Quite possibly the best book I've ever read is "King Dork" even though, I know one day Michael Cera is going to end up in the crappy movie based on it. God, I hate him. I listen to rock music, drink grape soda and I stole John Mayer's ghetto card. In between all of that I wrote a movie, then a TV show. Then another TV show. A cartoon. A book. I should get back to movies. Also I'm your Jedi James Dean in flip flops.
@eightyone_times just checked your website, really like the underwater shoot! :)
Thanks Marco, you mean for Renee Rue? Check back in a little while and I will have my latest short 'Vibration' on there!
Hey Stephen, thanks for the follow and twas returned. As for the shots, I mean more the story behind it. For example, the silhouette shot with the emerging sunlight, what was the setting, how did it c...
Expand commentHey Stephen, thanks for the follow and twas returned. As for the shots, I mean more the story behind it. For example, the silhouette shot with the emerging sunlight, what was the setting, how did it come about, was it something you saw right there in that instance and you told the actor to step in front of the sun. Though I specify a shot, I have to say I find them all great. Hope to learn and see more of the project!
@Vlandz
I see Edwin, and thanks for the follow! Well in the case of Renee Rue I am doing the whole film without a storyboard and kind of shooting on the fly. The first time I have tried to do a short film in...
Expand commentI see Edwin, and thanks for the follow! Well in the case of Renee Rue I am doing the whole film without a storyboard and kind of shooting on the fly. The first time I have tried to do a short film in this way as I'm normally a big storyboard fan. Half the shoot was in Barcelona/Roses, Spain and the other half is shot in the grotty flats and streets of Manchester, UK. I'm finding it a really enjoyable way of shooting and suits this particular project right down to the ground. I know what themes I need to capture in depth so I can do them in pretty much any location I like, and the script adapts with that. So yes, very interesting way to shoot a film, I'm really enjoying it!