Martin Straarup's Lounge Discussions

I'm not so interested in time travel per se, but I am very interested in the perception of time. I've recently written a short story about how someone starts to experience their own clock slow down, in that the world around them slowly starts to speed up- slowly at first, losing an hour each day, but accelerating until people around her talk so fast she can't understand, move so quickly she can't keep up, etc. The story is going to be published in an anthology on the theme of time, hopefully in December. However, I'm not sure this idea would work as a screenplay!

That's an interesting concept, Ben. It reminds me of something that we might have seen on the old "Twilight Zone" episodes. :)

Thank you Adam, for bringing up this interesting question! I'm not sure if physical time travel will be possible one day, but mental time travelin, even deep into ancient generations could be cause everything from the past is still present inside and in a way real. Maybe the question is, how to make it visible, how it can be seen and how interaction could work with mental past of others. I'm sorry because of my bad English. Best wishes to all!!

Dear fellow time travellers, I've finished a draft of the time travel script (called "The Price") that prompted this whole discussion and uploaded it to my page. I like the story, think it has a good hook and a fresh look at time travel. But. . .it's way too short! 72 pages when it should be 90 at least. I think the 2nd act needs more stuff in it, but am kinda stumped as to what that should be. Never had this problem before -- my stuff tends to come in at between 90-95 pages. So if you have any time to take a look and make suggestions, I would appreciate it! Thanks, Adam

with out time

I think you are correct Craig but sometimes we would like to know the person behind it the personal touch.

Sadly I've had no luck finding a producer for my scripts.

Gary was just in American Hustle with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, et. al. He's doing something right and I see him on here every day meeting people all over Stage 32. That's what it's for. I'm proud to have him in my network because I love seeing his career grow.

I haven't had a lot of luck but I have had some. But I have also made some great connections and hopefully one day it will lead to more work. But I am on here everyday looking and meeting.

It's like with all kind of business. If you are regularly present, people will get to know you and will be reminded about you, when the day comes that a project is taking off and they can connect you to the topic. It can take weeks, months, or years. You just got to start somewhere, but also not only at once place like on stage 32. Also on people in your neighborhood and in other networks. But you should also not forget to take the opportunity to join some project, so that you have something to show and to prove that you have an idea about it. When I tried to get my first credits from some short films on imdb, it didn't work. The projects didn't get accepted. A year later my credit as Production Manager turned up on the worst film I helped to produce for a Filmmaking student for his Final Thesis FiIm. Somehow I was Happy to have a credit, but not really this one. The Filming had been a good exercise & experience but not really a good film. Nevertheless I got the idea to get the other better projects up there as a reference too. The Filmmakers weren't really eager to do anything more with their films two years after they had made them. I wanted to get my credits on imdb so I kind of forced them to give their original video material and submitted them to several International FIlmfestivals. For "Border Stories - Illegal Imigration" we got 4 Awards and for "Life Lines" 1 Award and all are up on imdb now. In the meantime I got another project, where we were officially selected for a Festival Tour in 5 German cities and got another Award in Switzerland. Since these are small Festivals and not listed on imdb I managed to get all pictures available for the event, to post some on imdb. There is always a way to make things happen. In most cases you can manage almost everything with hard diligent work.

nope, but will look into it :) thanks for the link

Here is a suggestion... Shoot as many scenes as you can and edit them down the road. What is fresh and exciting for an actor today, maybe not so in a month or so. When I shoot a series, I try and shoot the scene all the way to a point I can 'kill off an actor' (be it fired or a non shown accident) This way you do not get 6 episodes in, and the Actor falls off the face of the earth on you. (Especially in NO budget stuff) Looks like you are doing fantasy stuff. Check out After Effect, Scott Kramer's Demon Face video tutorial. Google it. You could use some that for sure. Peace.

Thanks Simon nice advice will definitely use the one on shooting as many scenes not to "kill off" the actor.