log line and short summary

I need a log line and a short summary for Ghost Tours. A log line is usually 25 words or fewer. A short summary is 100 words or fewer.

You've probably all ready it by now, or I can send you the latest if you'd like. So go ahead, try your hand at writing a log line in the comments. Or riff of the ideas I'm working on.

Ghost Tours officially starts pre-production

I met with my professor today. He thinks I'm ready to start pre-production on Ghost Tours, and I think so too. Yay! I'm emotionally ready to start for sure. I really like this script. I really think it could be a great film. So no pressure or anything, but it's going to succeed for fail based on my skill as a director. This is where I find out if I am as good as I think I can be. I'm really looking forward to starting work on it. Writing was fun, but it's time to take the writer hat off.

Good teaching means caring

I just met for a few minutes with my Cinematography professor and it reminded me just how much of a fantastic teacher John is. I gush about Debbie a lot because I find what I do for her particularly challenging so I would never get through without her guidance and encouragement. What strikes me about John is how much he cares about his students.

Plays are different from movies

I know, duh, right? I had a reading of Ghost Tours yesterday at a playwrights' workshop. There are a group of people at the Newburyport Actors Studio who workshop new or in progress works by their members every 3rd Saturday. A friend of mine was meant to be presenting some work, but she hadn't finished writing it so she let me take her spot. In the 4 hour course of the session we heard an entire 2 act play, my script which ran about 17 minutes, and 4 works in the 5-10 minute range. They do a reading and then discuss, but they warned me that as stage people they would find it harder to discuss a screenplay.

The views from above and below the line.

The Line, in movie making terms, is the line between creative people and craft people. You are "creative" if you've got a job like writer, producer, director, director of photography, production designer, actor. These are all creative decision-makers. You are "craft" if you have a job like Gaffer, Key Grip, Set Dresser, Prop Master, Assistant Camera, or any of the legions of worker bees in each of those departments.

Old Cemeteries

I'm a little bit stuck on my next scene for Enid. I know it's going to take place on a historical walking tour in a cemetery. And I know one of the things it needs to accomplish is explaining that Enid wasn't hearing ghosts in the fog on the beach, she was hearing seals. But I'm not sure what else, if anything, I need to do with it. While I was mulling it over I went and shot cemetery photos.

More Enid Photos

I did a little research this afternoon. Seriously, if I wasn't about to have a boatload of student loan debt I'd just stay at the Cape and be a writer. Enid's Wall may never make me a lot of money, but boy does it make me happy to work on it.

My current challenge is the script. I think I've got the revisions to the treatment done, or done enough that I can sleep on it anyway. But the script isn't just 10-15 pages, it's consecutive pages. So for this case, for me it's the first 15 pages. My problem is the scenes that are most vivid in my mind are not necessarily the ones that come next. If I were just working for myself I would put in placeholder scenes with only enough that I know what I need to accomplish, and I would only flesh out the ones that I really see.

Figuring out the skeleton

I'm going to gush for a moment because I doubt Debbie will ever see this. And if she does ever happen to stumble upon it I'll stand by what I say.