2 Short Films I'm scripting

Currently, in addition to other scripts, my youtube presence, and job hunting I'm working on 2 short - short scripts. (Under 10 pages, hopefully around 5 -6 ) that can be shot in one or two days cheaply so I can be producing content and keeping engaged with film making, actors, and hopefully making connections with crew.

The first of these is currently titled Pretentious and in this stage follows the premiere night of a film maker and her encounters with very pretentious film critics and viewers. It's meant to be a satire of and examination of the way film critics actually are (based a fair bit on my own experience). I've got to figure out some logistics, because the concept potentially could involve a lot of extras. However, I think it's a great concept and I may be able to get a cast and crew interested in working on it.

The second is a horror short - inspired by a script I wrote way back when that was never produced, "Assault of the Mutants" (speaking of pretentious titles...). That said, it's nothing like that script. It follows a girl living in the foothills of the Ozarks as she runs away from her abusive father - but is watched by several mutant - "almost people" (yes I'm aware I'm stealing a Dr. Who episode title) as the lead character calls them. I want to test out some concepts and potentially find some locations for larger projects. In this version of the script it has some overtones of the Blair Witch (overtones, not the style or terrible lack of script), as well as inspiration from the Bloody Cuts UK horror short films series.

I'll leave you with links to the Blair Witch teaser and a Bloody Cuts UK short...for those of you who need some content to watch:

Blair Witch Teaser:

Bloody Cuts Short, Death Scenes:

Youtube

Youtube...the final frontier.

No, but for real, it's an interesting platform. I'm attempting to build up my monatization abilities over 3 separate accounts I've built up over the past few years. Anchorboy2 was my original account that has a lot of videos with copyrighted content that can't be monetized, but a few that can. CRebProductions has a lot of my more professional work and a few other sorts of videos - definitely now my main channel. And then there's BriansAnimalVideos, my newest channel where I'm attempting (so far with little success) to build up an audience by regular posting of fuzzy and scaly creatures. I'm learning a lot about metadata, tagging, networking, etc. I'm also watching a lot of other people's content and leaving comments and video responses, attempting to build up my audience that way.

I've also considered taking the anchorboy2 channel, and except for a few videos that are doing well view - wise, turning it into more of a vlog style channel where I talk about video production, scripts, random stuff and whatnot. Not sure how that would "sell" so to speak, but it might be worth a shot.

That's my latest venture in between writing scripts and sending my resume into the black abyss of "we have more qualified candidates for just about anything" land...haha.

I know for a good long while, making a decent buck...much less a living...off youtube isn't likely, but I'm going to push toward that goal. Sharing and putting my content out there helps a lot, so anyone who does that, I'm extremely grateful.

Well internet friends - to you I bid a good night. I'll have some blog posts (and perhaps vlogs) about new films I want to work on, that I've been scripting. I'm trying to find stuff that can be pretty nill budget... 'cause I'm still drained pretty darn dry from Resolve and being jobless for awhile.