On an Unrelated Note…
I’ve just been looking at my incoming links (I like to see what people are searching for when they find my site), and two questions sprang to mind. Who’s been searching for “0000001000000110000001000000110000001000000100000010000001,” and, upon doing so, why did they decide The Anonymous Production Assistant Blog must be the site they’re looking for? By the […]
I Don’t Wanna Be That Guy
They say you hate in other what you hate most about yourself. I recently came off a show where I had one of the worst bosses of my entire life. Besides having the emotional maturity of a four year old (he once yelled at the script coordinator for bringing him pages, when we had just […]
Stealing Ideas
Well, I didn’t get to send anyone to the electric chair. (Or whatever it is they do nowadays. Hang ’em? Shoot ’em? Are we still stoning people?) It’s been a long, boring day, so I’ll keep this post short. I was going through some old e-mails, and I uncovered a dream I had totally forgotten […]
Civic Duty
My posting schedule will be a erratic for a little while, as I will be spending my days sitting in judgment of my fellow man. In a totally socially-endorsed way, too! If you’re in the courthouse tomorrow, I’ll be the angriest of the twelve angry men. I’m just not sure which argument I should make […]
Wanna Know How Sausage is Made?
My freshman year at film school, I knew at least a half dozen people who dropped out of the program, if not college altogether. Even more changed majors in the years following. After picking films apart for class after class, they found that they just couldn’t enjoy going to the movies anymore, which was probably […]
Making Movies for Fun and No Profit
First of all, Ken Levine somehow stole a blog post idea directly from my head. (This fits with my theory that Rupert Murdoch has a chip my brain, and he’s stealing all my good scripts before I even write them.) Ah, well, it’s probably for the best– he’s a better writer than I am, anyway, […]
I Tell Myself This Sometimes
You’re not a very good writer. You’re not smart enough. You don’t know what you’re doing. You don’t construct engaging stories. You don’t know how to build a scene. You don’t build tension, and you don’t release it with comedy relief. You don’t know what’s funny. You don’t create three dimensional characters. You won’t stop […]
A Derivative Post
John August has another one of his Scene Challenges up. The goal is to write a scene where one character explains to another what investment derivatives are. It was a difficult writing problem, since I have no idea what investment derivatives are. I’m #48.
What’s in it for You?
The purpose of this blog is not to give advice. After four years of film school, and four more of real industry experience, the only thing I know for sure is that I don’t know much. (Which is not to say that youth necessarily equals bad advice; check out Amanda’s blog for a fine example.) […]
What’s My Motivation? (Or, Does the World Really Need Another Blogger?)
Yesterday, I read an essay by Paul Graham, “Good and Bad Procrastination.” Among other things, Graham summarizes Richard Hamming’s “You and Your Research” thusly: What are the most important problems in your field? Are you working on one of them? Why not? I like the third question, because it assumes an answer to the second. […]