A couple days ago I finished something huge for myself. I finally completed a feature length screnplay. Coming in at 112 pages, The Black Legion is the first story that I took all the way to a rough draft. I'm really amazed by myself because I started it on July 7th and finished the first draft on August 12th. So in a month and some change I went from not even knowing the character of Jared Mackey and his world of science fiction and superheroes to having a completed idea and taking it a step further because now I have outlines for two subsequent movies. The goal at this point is definitely to sell this script, but in the meantime I'm just getting some friends to read it and tell me what they think before I go full on into trying to get it optioned. It's definitely a high moment in my life and after the deep since of accomplishment I feel now, I have to keep going. I have to write more because when I wrote FADE OUT on the Black Legion I had to walk away from the computer. I was completely blown away by the emotional release of it all.
Cheers,
Malcolm.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
WRITING: "First Flight"
Again, written for CGTalk. Maybe someone will make something of this. Would be pretty cool.
"First Flight"
On a spaceship, a father stands watch at the side of the pilot's chair as his 17 year old son slowly maneuvers into a spacedock. The camera cuts back and forth between the docking clamps and the son as he slowly and cautiously goes forward.
Everything is going good and the father beams with pride. The clamps are just about to engage when the son looks back at his father. He sees the look of pride and he accidentally hits the gas. The ships jumps forward and is mere inches from slamming into the dock when the son flicks a switch. The reverse jets click on and stop their forward motion. The father sighs loudly and the boy looks back at him as he's moving his hand back to the wheel. The father's eyes go wide as the son grazes a switch. The son turns to look at what he'd he almost done and hits the switch.
New rockets fire shooting the ship away from the rock. The father is thrown forward into the "windshield". The son slams forward into the control panel and hits other switches. The ship stops long enough for the father to fall to the ground. Outside the ship panels open up and more rockets emerge from them. They quickly fire before anyone can stop them in the ship and the little ship jets toward the dock.
The father and son are both slammed to the back of the cockpit, screaming. They grab onto each other and scream mindlessly as they watch the dock getting closer and closer.
The docking clamps are the closest thing to the ship and as the ship gets closer and closer we zoom in and watch the clamps. Time slows as clamps make contact with the dock. From the point of a force shield materializes. The dock is fine but as we pull back and time speeds up. the ship slams full force into it.
The ship buckles as it impacts and an electrical pulse ripples around it before a full on explosion starts at it's core and spreads out in all directions.
Ships in the distance watch as the explosions rips thru space at them. They turn on their shields just in time but the imensity of the explosion makes the skies go solid white.
As the explosion fades from view we're left with gnarled pieces of debris floating thru space outside the spacedock. A small lifepod floats by, rotating free in space.
Inside the pod, the father and son sit in a tangled mass of confusion. The son gets up first and sees that they're floating free thru space. He jumps into the pilot's chair. The father slowly stands and walks towards the seat. He smacks his son on the back of the head. The son quickly jumps up and steps aside from the seat with his head bowed towards the ground. The father grabs him and gives him a hug then walks over to the pilot's seat.
Cheers,
Malcolm.
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"First Flight"
On a spaceship, a father stands watch at the side of the pilot's chair as his 17 year old son slowly maneuvers into a spacedock. The camera cuts back and forth between the docking clamps and the son as he slowly and cautiously goes forward.
Everything is going good and the father beams with pride. The clamps are just about to engage when the son looks back at his father. He sees the look of pride and he accidentally hits the gas. The ships jumps forward and is mere inches from slamming into the dock when the son flicks a switch. The reverse jets click on and stop their forward motion. The father sighs loudly and the boy looks back at him as he's moving his hand back to the wheel. The father's eyes go wide as the son grazes a switch. The son turns to look at what he'd he almost done and hits the switch.
New rockets fire shooting the ship away from the rock. The father is thrown forward into the "windshield". The son slams forward into the control panel and hits other switches. The ship stops long enough for the father to fall to the ground. Outside the ship panels open up and more rockets emerge from them. They quickly fire before anyone can stop them in the ship and the little ship jets toward the dock.
The father and son are both slammed to the back of the cockpit, screaming. They grab onto each other and scream mindlessly as they watch the dock getting closer and closer.
The docking clamps are the closest thing to the ship and as the ship gets closer and closer we zoom in and watch the clamps. Time slows as clamps make contact with the dock. From the point of a force shield materializes. The dock is fine but as we pull back and time speeds up. the ship slams full force into it.
The ship buckles as it impacts and an electrical pulse ripples around it before a full on explosion starts at it's core and spreads out in all directions.
Ships in the distance watch as the explosions rips thru space at them. They turn on their shields just in time but the imensity of the explosion makes the skies go solid white.
As the explosion fades from view we're left with gnarled pieces of debris floating thru space outside the spacedock. A small lifepod floats by, rotating free in space.
Inside the pod, the father and son sit in a tangled mass of confusion. The son gets up first and sees that they're floating free thru space. He jumps into the pilot's chair. The father slowly stands and walks towards the seat. He smacks his son on the back of the head. The son quickly jumps up and steps aside from the seat with his head bowed towards the ground. The father grabs him and gives him a hug then walks over to the pilot's seat.
Cheers,
Malcolm.
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WRITING: "A Brief History of Aeronautics"
So every once and a while CGTalk does these VFX Challenge things. They're usually pretty cool and random people from all over the world participate. I was looking on the screenwriting page a month or ago and there was a request for short stories. So I whipped together a couple quick things based around the idea of a plane crash. Here's the first one.
"A Brief History of Aeronautics"
"Early Advances"
Scene:
Man with wings attached jumps off a cliff and flaps really hard. He maintains flight for a couple seconds. The wings fall apart and he goes tumbling down.
Scene:
Man running with a hangglider. Trips and slams face first into ground. A small fire starts and an assistant runs up and stomps him out.
"Eventual Successes"
Scene:
Rickety old plane flies along. Camera pans with it and all is going well.
"Sorta..."
Scene:
Same plane crashes into a mountain and bursts into flames.
"Planes Evolved"
Scene:
Quick clips of modern planes and rocket ships.
"Sorta..."
Scene:
Jet takes off then crashes hard into the ground. Huge Explosion. Fire everywhere.
Scene:
Rocketship is starting it's ignition sequence and just as it's taking off fire rips thru the whole thing, blasting it to pieces.
Scene:
A plane is flying along and out of nowhere another plane rips thru it's side. Biggest explosion so far as both planes burst open throwing pieces in every direction. The two planes hurl towards the ground and hit with enough force to make a massive shockwave that knocks over cars and uproots trees.
"The Future"
Scene:
Man straps on a rocket pack. Gives a thumbs up to the camera and hits a button. He flies straight up and then it kicks to the right and slams him into a wall. The rockets keep firing, pinning him into the wall. After a moment, they stop. He starts to fall towards the ground and they fire again, buring him into the ground. A small mushroom cloud comes up from the hole in the ground.
"Buses"
Scene:
Really pretty, ultra polished, really graphic designy poster with a bus on it. Says something on it about new cross country rates being lowered or something of that nature.
"When's the last time one of them crashed into a mountain?"
Cheers,
Malcolm.
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"A Brief History of Aeronautics"
"Early Advances"
Scene:
Man with wings attached jumps off a cliff and flaps really hard. He maintains flight for a couple seconds. The wings fall apart and he goes tumbling down.
Scene:
Man running with a hangglider. Trips and slams face first into ground. A small fire starts and an assistant runs up and stomps him out.
"Eventual Successes"
Scene:
Rickety old plane flies along. Camera pans with it and all is going well.
"Sorta..."
Scene:
Same plane crashes into a mountain and bursts into flames.
"Planes Evolved"
Scene:
Quick clips of modern planes and rocket ships.
"Sorta..."
Scene:
Jet takes off then crashes hard into the ground. Huge Explosion. Fire everywhere.
Scene:
Rocketship is starting it's ignition sequence and just as it's taking off fire rips thru the whole thing, blasting it to pieces.
Scene:
A plane is flying along and out of nowhere another plane rips thru it's side. Biggest explosion so far as both planes burst open throwing pieces in every direction. The two planes hurl towards the ground and hit with enough force to make a massive shockwave that knocks over cars and uproots trees.
"The Future"
Scene:
Man straps on a rocket pack. Gives a thumbs up to the camera and hits a button. He flies straight up and then it kicks to the right and slams him into a wall. The rockets keep firing, pinning him into the wall. After a moment, they stop. He starts to fall towards the ground and they fire again, buring him into the ground. A small mushroom cloud comes up from the hole in the ground.
"Buses"
Scene:
Really pretty, ultra polished, really graphic designy poster with a bus on it. Says something on it about new cross country rates being lowered or something of that nature.
"When's the last time one of them crashed into a mountain?"
Cheers,
Malcolm.
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