[MacDV] Re: No screenwriting software

[Illovox Media]

Well, can't disagree with the rewriting recommendations...

on 5/12/03 7:12 PM, Matthew Guemple at mo.og at verizon.net wrote:

> Come on guys... he hasn't written a word yet.
> Write the story, then worry about breakdowns and all that junk.
> Just pound it out on a typewriter and get people to read it... then
> rewrite it, then rewrite it, then rewrite it, then rewrite it, then
> rewrite it, then rewrite it. Don't get me wrong I'm not putting the
> software down, it's great but only really useful when you have
> something that resembles a story that could possibly make a decent
> script...!
> 
> That's why I suggested starting out with a treatment. How many times
> have you had a great idea for a film... and then started to put it on
> paper and realized that it's only funny when you're stoned... or
> whatever. For me many, many, times... though not the stoned anymore...
> :(
> 
> I'm going to send him a basic Word format thing. Once he's actually
> written it gotten feedback, rehearsed it with some actors so the
> dialogue does not sound stiff and weird, had a DP or producer make
> their comments.... THEN buy the software and start really polishing the
> beast. Otherwise you are just putting lipstick on what could turn out
> to be a pig.
> 
> STORY STORY STORY... get that first.
> 
> That's all I'm saying...
> 
> 
> On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 09:57 PM, Illovox Media wrote:
> 
>> You guys do not know what you are talking about.  A program like final
>> draft
>> does many things no Word program will do, like create spot breakdowns
>> of
>> which scenes a character appears in, along with scene descriptions, so
>> you
>> can track a character's arc, like transform note cards into scene
>> outlines
>> and vice versa, like count locations, etc, etc,  Final Draft is one of
>> the
>> most wisely and widely used programs, and it's worth the $150 just to
>> save
>> the time creating all those Macros Word makes it so blamed difficult
>> to do
>> in the first place...