Culture, Career, How-To | Grassroots Media for Artists & Indies | AI-Free
Culture, Career, How-To | Grassroots Media for Artists & Indies | AI-Free
Scott Milder is a writer, filmmaker and educator based in Albuquerque. He earned his MFA in Screenwriting from Boston University in 2006. As a screenwriter he was worked independently as well as with Hollywood and foreign film producers. He co-founded Trifecta+ Entertainment in 2006 with Corey Weintraub and Mary Holyoke in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has gone on to write, produce and direct a number of award-winning short films that have screened at film festivals around the world. He has been teaching Screenwriting at Santa Fe Community College since 2010 and is currently in post-production on his first feature film, Dead Billy.
The video uses the structure of the song—a long, tension filled intro that owes as much to Morricone and Leonard Cohen as it does to Metallica—that suddenly lunges headlong into a thrash-metal buzz-saw to create some very real suspense and a stunning payoff.
A good starting place is to develop a logline, your one-sentence summary of the idea. This is a hell of a lot harder than it sounds.
If you’re still rocking a flip phone, just stick to the magazines. Because a flip phone is the mark of shame and sadness.
Write the damn thing as if it were your great American novel.
The point here isn’t to talk about how awesome we are, but to stress how we have come to value a collaborative vision built around our own dark obsessions.
I’m still a writer first, and always will be. But filmmaking gave me a way to do it in the company of others.
Good theater-trained actors tend to work harder. This isn’t always true, except, yeah, it’s pretty much true.
Getting distribution for your film can mean a lot of things. And for true indie filmmakers, often enough, what it means is not good.
