Where do all you screenwriters live? [Archive]

nielsty

11-03-2006, 07:33 PM

razormoney

11-03-2006, 08:04 PM

San Antonio, Texas. Being close to Austin is great. It's like the LA or NY of middle america when it comes to film production. And the cost of living is much more managable.

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mommyjo2

11-03-2006, 08:51 PM

South Carolina. Just moved from Denver...I'm going in the wrong direction!

fedorable1

11-03-2006, 08:57 PM

Gainesville, FL - For the moment.

Not a lot here, other than independant films. When I makes some headway in the business I'm planning on moving to California (if in films) or possibly New York (if in television).

Write_At_1st_Light

11-03-2006, 09:12 PM

In the belly of the beast, Tinsel Town. Cost of living is a killer so I thank God that I purposely went after a paying career (software design) for survival. They just raised my rent to $1,063.96 for a small 1-bedroom in a noisy, rather intense area of Los Angeles. Cost of living is murder, did I mention that?

In SAG, in AFTRA, have worked Theatre here, and it will probably be my contacts in those areas that might get a script sold. I'll be doing some heavy hawking starting early next year. Will have 2 polished scripts by then.

It really is true. Not what you know, who you know. No question about that.

Goodwriterguy

11-03-2006, 09:17 PM

I was just wondering?

How many of you are actually living near film industry areas?

Have you moved to get near it?

Myself - I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, and we have a fine film industry here with most of the Danish production companies situated in a radius of 30 miles from where I live. I moved here to study film- and media science at University of Copenhagen which have also given me some decent industry contacts.

What about the rest of you?
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I live in the SE corner of British Columbia, deep in the Columbia Mountains. I came here from LA where I was born and raised and spent the first few years of my adult life ... before overcrowding and the madness of city living drove me out. I'm a day's drive from Vancouver, known colloquially as "Hollywood North." But I mainly do my business in LA, via the phone and the Internet, with the occasional trip down there to take meetings. I can be in LA the next day, flying out of Spokane, Washington, a three hour drive from my home. We enjoy rural living on 30 acres in a lovely valley where there's hardly any people at all. Like I say, the Information Superhighway comes right down my dirt road.

We often spend our winters in Mexico or somewhere in the sunbelt, but I wouldn't trade this for anything. :)

clockwork

11-03-2006, 09:55 PM

I'm like GWG (albeit on a smaller scale :) ) in that I live in the north of England near to the Lake District which I love but am close enough to go to London and back in a day when the need arises.

English Dave

11-03-2006, 11:30 PM

London.

Given the traffic, clockwork can probably get back quicker to the Lake District.

clockwork

11-03-2006, 11:37 PM

London.

Given the traffic, clockwork can probably get back quicker to the Lake District.

Hehe... I can make it in about 4 1/2 hours if the trains are behaving.

wordmonkey

11-04-2006, 12:16 AM

Originally from Sheffield, England (where men are men and women are men).

Moved to the States about nine years ago but only got as far as North Carolina. I'm at least heading the right way!

That said, the two scripts I wrote that are currently in PostProd where made by ProdCos in Austin TX and Akron OH. Go figure.

Though in fairness, I don't focus entirely on screenplays. I write comics, and prose, so my locale is less important.

English Dave

11-04-2006, 12:28 AM

Originally from Sheffield, England (where men are men and women are men).

Big shout out for The Blades, Tinsley Park Golf Course, Nether Edge and The Three Tuns!

wordmonkey

11-04-2006, 12:42 AM

Big shout out for The Blades, Tinsley Park Golf Course, Nether Edge and The Three Tuns!

Dude!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOO!

Well, OK, to the Golf, Nether Edge and the Tuns.

But I will never utter a peep, let alone a big shout out to my porcine cousins from across that fair city.

whistlelock

11-04-2006, 12:56 AM

I live in Austin Texas, and try to work on one or two pictures a year here.

English Dave

11-04-2006, 12:57 AM

How can you support a team called the Owls?

Oh yeah. Spend most of their time perched doing nothing. I get it.;)

ajq32

11-04-2006, 01:21 AM

i live in Chicago, one of the best towns in the world...even though i hate big cities and would rather live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by corn and cattle.

dpaterso

11-04-2006, 01:27 AM

I live in a cave on Mars, far removed from civilization.

I suspect I have the wrong hobby.

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wordmonkey

11-04-2006, 01:34 AM

How can you support a team called the Owls?

Oh yeah. Spend most of their time perched doing nothing. I get it.;)

D'ya know, it is so refreshing to be able to have this little to-and-fro about the two football* teams of the Steel City. You just don't get that kinda thing over here.

But come on. I could pick a team that has a symbol that soars above, or one that goes dull and rusty and arguably has been so for many many years.

Now I know the standard response will be look at the relative standings.

To which I would reply, Boxing Day and the Semi-Final at Wembley. I think we both know pretty much every red and white Sheffield person would trade propping up the Premiereship for those two results. :D

Though I think we can both agree that supporting Man U should be punishable by castration, for the good of the planet.

And now back to a scheduled thread already in progress.

* For our American cousins, I do mean football here. Y'know, foot, moving ball. Not what you all call football, but what I like to refer to as sissy-rugby. "Oh no, I might get a grass-stain, I better wear a helmet and some sofa cushions under my shirt."

odocoileus

11-04-2006, 01:36 AM

A block and a half away from 24's home sound stage.

wordmonkey

11-04-2006, 01:59 AM

A block and a half away from 24's home sound stage.

That's just bragging.

Tell me though, does the curious temporal field extend to your house? 'Cos if I could make 24 hours last 24 weeks I could get an amazing amount of work down in one day!

icerose

11-04-2006, 03:32 AM

I live in the middle of Utah. I realize my chances of making a career out of script writing and writing in general is nigh impossible due to my location, but that doesn't mean I'll stop trying.

clockwork

11-04-2006, 03:49 AM

A block and a half away from 24's home sound stage.

Hello, friend. :)

How big's your house?

clockwork

11-04-2006, 03:50 AM

I live in the middle of Utah. I realize my chances of making a career out of script writing and writing in general is nigh impossible due to my location, but that doesn't mean I'll stop trying.

Doesn't Utah have a pretty active film and TV industry?

icerose

11-04-2006, 03:52 AM

Doesn't Utah have a pretty active film and TV industry?

Umm, no! There is maybe one film studio in the entire state. They host sundance, but I'm not sure how big that is.

clockwork

11-04-2006, 03:53 AM

Oh, OK. I just remember reading that they filmed that Everwood TV show there which doubled for Colorado.

icerose

11-04-2006, 03:55 AM

Oh, OK. I just remember reading that they filmed that Everwood TV show there which doubled for Colorado.

Well yeah, they film here ALL the time. We have great scenery, a lot of open and unique landscapes that is cheap to film and easy access without worry of keeping people away.

Off the top of my head Galaxy Quest the part of the planet where they get that round core thingy, that was filmed in Goblin Valley, which is about an hour south of here. Gorgeous scenery for filming, but that doesn't mean they hang around, they come in, get their shots, and get out. So networking is not available, which is the point of living in the film heavy areas is it not?

clockwork

11-04-2006, 03:57 AM

Yeah, I suppose there's a difference between a production centre and a busy location.

Do they advertise for local help during the shoots or do they bring their own?

icerose

11-04-2006, 04:01 AM

Yeah, I suppose there's a difference between a production centre and a busy location.

Do they advertise for local help during the shoots or do they bring their own?

They bring their own. The most they ever ask for is a doughnut and coffee boy which they pay like dollar an hour wages or no wages at all for the "privilage" of seeing a set.

They tend to not let their presence known because they come here to avoid crowds, if you don't announce it, you can slide in and out of the wilderness and no one will even bat an eye.

clockwork

11-04-2006, 04:13 AM

They bring their own. The most they ever ask for is a doughnut and coffee boy which they pay like dollar an hour wages or no wages at all for the "privilage" of seeing a set.

They tend to not let their presence known because they come here to avoid crowds, if you don't announce it, you can slide in and out of the wilderness and no one will even bat an eye.

Dollar an hour? What are you waiting for?! :)

wordmonkey

11-04-2006, 04:22 AM

They bring their own. The most they ever ask for is a doughnut and coffee boy which they pay like dollar an hour wages or no wages at all for the "privilage" of seeing a set.

It's a way to network. And on a movie at least, there's a good chance a screenwriter will be on set.

Getting in there and they pay you (union rates, which won't be a fortune, but will be worth your while - unless we're talking indie pic).

Were I younger and had less ankle-biters, I'd be in like flynn!

odocoileus

11-04-2006, 06:04 AM

That's just bragging.
Tell me though, does the curious temporal field extend to your house? 'Cos if I could make 24 hours last 24 weeks I could get an amazing amount of work down in one day!

If I say "Chatsworth," people think porn studios and horse stables. We have both, of course. But 24 is cooler. And it's closer to my flat than either the porn studios or stables - I've checked. ;)

But the coolest thing about Chatsworth is the "beware of mountain lions and rattlesnakes" sign that's on display in every hillside park. :e2teeth:
One thing they definitely don't have in NYC, Chicago, London, or Paris.

Time only slows down out here on the weekends. It's downright sleepy compared to Hollywood or West LA.

icerose

11-04-2006, 06:12 AM

It's a way to network. And on a movie at least, there's a good chance a screenwriter will be on set.

Getting in there and they pay you (union rates, which won't be a fortune, but will be worth your while - unless we're talking indie pic).

Were I younger and had less ankle-biters, I'd be in like flynn!

Except I have three kids and well, it makes doing much of anything difficult. When they are older and I have something called money, I want to go to some conferences, I think it would be so much fun to attend.

scripter1

11-04-2006, 07:42 AM

icerose

11-04-2006, 08:01 AM

you don't know how big Sundance is?

I mean, it's not huge huge huge, but it's up there.

I bet that if you took even half a day you could meet some people.
And it's a beautiful place.

I thought film festivals were for...films, not scripts. I am mistaken?

Write_At_1st_Light

11-04-2006, 08:23 AM

you don't know how big Sundance is?

I mean, it's not huge huge huge, but it's up there.

I bet that if you took even half a day you could meet some people.
And it's a beautiful place.

I never made it to the film festival while I was doing my time in Provo but I have visited Sundance.

I live in Indiana.
I'm the brick house between the corn fields.

I started out in Va. Beach Va so I guess I'm moving the right direction too.

I don't think I could handle LA, so maybe when that time comes I'll have to work something out.
Hey Scripter -

I did time myself in Virginia Beach, while a sailor in Norfolk (the town with the signs that say "Sailors and dogs, stay off the grass"). We used to have CB radio parties, cruising up and down Atlantic and Pacific boulevards. Saw Pat Benatar at a club called The Raven back there in 1979. Just before she hit the major league big time.

Indiana is included in my first script, just shellacked and drying in the sun.

I'm a Midwesterner (Ohio) but here - Los Angeles - is where I figure I have to be to move my scripts. Maybe that'll change, who knows.

billythrilly7th

11-05-2006, 02:44 AM

I'm on a much needed break from NYC and Los Angeles.

I'm in Boulder CO. And I love it.

But sadly, I think my time is running out here and I'll probably move back to LA within the next 3-6 months.

scripter1

11-05-2006, 02:58 AM

yep, real familar with the strip.
And Norfolk.

We wern't military though. My Dad was an engineer with the army corps of Enginers. He worked out at Fort Norfolk.

We used to go out there when we were little and one time got locked in the old dungeon they had.

Cruised the strip a time or two myself but mostly spent my free time at the surfing beach on the south side of the rocks, south of The Lighthouse.

Never went to the Raven, um, quite a while before my time.
You're dating yourself. :)

I swore I would never marry someone from corn country but, whatcha gonna do? The heart wants what it wants.

elviro

11-05-2006, 08:32 PM

I'm from Spain. Something like the age of stone in screenwriting. If you're half good, you will surely get your piece of the cake. Still trying.

English Dave

11-05-2006, 09:17 PM

But sadly, I think my time is running out here and I'll probably move back to LA within the next 3-6 months.

It don't take them long Billy. ;)

Writer1

11-05-2006, 11:15 PM

Lives in paradise...Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC.

English Dave

11-05-2006, 11:18 PM

Lives in paradise...Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC.

Just don't put it on your CV. No Name Oh? ;)

wyzguy

11-06-2006, 02:07 AM

Winnipeg, Canada. Frozen north more isolated than icerose. Some indie production here.

BottomlessCup

11-06-2006, 08:59 AM

I live in Vegas, but I'm frighteningly close to moving to LA.

My "Move-to-LA" CDs mature in January and I'm heading out there then and making a go of it. It's been a plan-in-the-making for five years now and I'm very excited.

I'll be going out there in the next six weeks or so to start checking out jobs and apartments.

seanie blue

11-06-2006, 11:03 AM

Laurel Canyon. Twelve minutes to Universal City and the CBS lots; eight minutes to Santa Monica Blvd.

On the set of Ghost Whisperer Thursday night. Twelve scenes shot in 8 hours, including one in which a guy walks out of the house and gets into a red jeep after a rainshower. Took half an hour to put out the fake rain apparatus; five out of 18 grips and electricians working. Then an hour to film the 8-second shot of Jessica Love Hewitt's stand-in sitting in the jeep in the fake rain while all 18 grips and electricians sat around doing nothing. Neighbors popping by for stale oatmeal cookies and sodas; dinner was in the park off Colfax and half the peopple eating were neighbors. Two houses near Huston Street were used bcause they looked "Eastcoastish" and a third house had their driveway used for catering's cookie table. The two houses got four grand for two nights, and the occupants and their pets stayed in a hotel, and the house with the cookie table got $500. A huge generator blasted half the time until 3 a.m. A city cop on a motorcycle stood by the whole time. You could hear the cash ticker every second. But all the talent and the crews read about the advertising problems in the TV industry, and everyone is nervous, trying to cash out, get that lawn and two-car garage outside Sedona before the whole charade falls apart.

Hollywood is a great place to come to. Apartments at Western & Hollywood are $700 with a murphy bed. Food is cheap. You don't have heating bills. Best of all, the entertainment dinosaur is dying, stumbling from its knees onto its face. If the falls of Rome and Saigon were good for writers, the crash of Hollywood is a surefire draw. What terrible accident is happening in the Midwest that would keep a writer away from Los Angeles? Everything is here: Loneliness, self-worthlessness, natural disasters, desperation, immorality, beauty, youth, and a chance to make a deal, every day.

BottomlessCup

11-06-2006, 11:08 AM

Damn it, Sean.

I'm trying to wait until January so my 401K is fully vested.

You post something like that and it just reminds me that I could move there tonight, if I wanted to.

Hollywood & Western, eh? $700? You can't even get a one-bedroom in Vegas for that.

seanie blue

11-06-2006, 11:23 AM

Friend of Alfred H.,

Come on out. But bring a movie! Nobody here is real a writer unless they have a movie. It can be a bad one, don't worry; nobody will watch it. If I were in LV I'd do four interviews with ex-call girls aged 50+ (or cabaret hoofers, or internet pin-ups), put up any three minutes of each, stick up a cool title, even pay fifty bucks to make it look pro, call it "Pretty Lost," and check in at any Starbucks and try to look interesting. Wear pink or lime. I wear my Dark Side of the Moon lounge pajamas and everyone winks at me. And then you develop a shtick about how you're really going to film in LV rather than LA and sooner or later you call people in LV and say "Hey, I'm in LA and I have a project to shoot outside Vegas about beauty spoiling on the shelf and I have Linda Evangelista and Jasmine Bleeth's lawyers ready to sign contracts if I can come up with thirty grand. Or Tiffany Amber Thiessen is available for ten grand for a week, and we're ready to shoot." Nothng like calling where you came from from Hollywood. Whew. The whole world tilts in this direction. There's nothing sexier than the movies, which is probably why so many stupid people try to jump in and ruin it for the people who have already been here four months.

But if you bring a movie, you're gold. A movie with a good review, and you eat for free.

BottomlessCup

11-06-2006, 11:51 AM

I'm going to make the movie out there.

Which is why it was a five-year plan, not a two-year plan. I'm not just moving out with a nest egg; I'm moving out with a camera, a reasonably good editing set-up, lights, mics, a dolly, and a decent little nest egg.

Should be enough to make some dubious friendships.

odocoileus

11-06-2006, 11:52 AM

On nights like that I'd think, "The writers are at home, snug in their beds. Or at least, out on the town, having a life."

(Is JLH's stand-in hot?)

Laurel Canyon. Twelve minutes to Universal City and the CBS lots; eight minutes to Santa Monica Blvd.

On the set of Ghost Whisperer Thursday night. Twelve scenes shot in 8 hours, including one in which a guy walks out of the house and gets into a red jeep after a rainshower. Took half an hour to put out the fake rain apparatus; five out of 18 grips and electricians working. Then an hour to film the 8-second shot of Jessica Love Hewitt's stand-in sitting in the jeep in the fake rain while all 18 grips and electricians sat around doing nothing. Neighbors popping by for stale oatmeal cookies and sodas; dinner was in the park off Colfax and half the peopple eating were neighbors. Two houses near Huston Street were used bcause they looked "Eastcoastish" and a third house had their driveway used for catering's cookie table. The two houses got four grand for two nights, and the occupants and their pets stayed in a hotel, and the house with the cookie table got $500. A huge generator blasted half the time until 3 a.m. A city cop on a motorcycle stood by the whole time. You could hear the cash ticker every second. But all the talent and the crews read about the advertising problems in the TV industry, and everyone is nervous, trying to cash out, get that lawn and two-car garage outside Sedona before the whole charade falls apart.

Hollywood is a great place to come to. Apartments at Western & Hollywood are $700 with a murphy bed. Food is cheap. You don't have heating bills. Best of all, the entertainment dinosaur is dying, stumbling from its knees onto its face. If the falls of Rome and Saigon were good for writers, the crash of Hollywood is a surefire draw. What terrible accident is happening in the Midwest that would keep a writer away from Los Angeles? Everything is here: Loneliness, self-worthlessness, natural disasters, desperation, immorality, beauty, youth, and a chance to make a deal, every day.

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seanie blue

11-06-2006, 12:58 PM

Jessica?
Jennifer.

Why would you make the movie out here? Much more expensive, no? Nobody volunteers. For one day, one shoot, sure. I made movies in Washington, Spain, Mexico, Holland, Baltimore and you can get 30 volunteers for three weeks, working their butts off, and you pay for the salads.

Los Angeles is a market for vegetables. You grow your beets and corn somewhere else, and bring them to the market. Very hard to grow vegetables in a market. Got that advice from Jay Kowai, a set designer, who warned me repeatedly about coming out here empty-handed. It's great advice.

Tarnation
Laws of Gravity
Japon
Rhythm Thieves
SLC Punk
Out of Bounds
All the Real Girls
Blood Simple

are all movies that were made on credit cards outside the industry, and caused sensations when they were brought in to the market. Jaw-dropping disbelief sensations.

Out here, everyone is trying to make garbage like Mystic River, so a whole day is shot over the placement of a single clunky dolly. There is that Hollywood look tht the lowliest peon aspires to on the set; stories, emotions, characters are thrown out to achieve Lalaland's moist seduction. It's ridiculous.

Have you seen "Overnight"? That's the prototypical Hollywood experience, I think. Guy makes his movie, everyone loses money, guy goes back to being a bouncer in Boston.

Doesn't Las Vegas have a new edge of town every year? There must be some interesting settings where the pavement meets the desert. I am trying to put together a feature for $25K about an enterprising young biologist who shoots oil executives with her bow and arrows in her spare time, with the whole movie being shot in Farsi or Amharic, and the key element is to get OUT of LA and into the desert sothe executive can moon around in the heat and say, "Shoot me. What are you waiting for?"

I've been here three years, meetings musicals monstrosities makeup and make-believe, and this is the last place I would make a movie unless it was called "The Script" and it was about three screenwriters starving to death while trying to ste up their pitch. And even that I'd rather shoot in New Orleans or Minneapolis and pretend it's an apocalyptic Hollywood.

TheRuleofThirds

11-08-2006, 06:18 AM

I live in Lexington, KY. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like there's a lot of activity going on here, film-wise. It's mostly indie, but there has been increased Hollywood activity recently. The thing about our indie scene is that I think it's like low-end mostly. It's the people that take any camera they find--likely a Sony Hi-8--and go out in the woods and shoot zombie slasher/thrillers. Not quite the artsy, avant garde stuff that winds up at Sundance or the other prestigious indie festivals. But the way I figure...if they can land a camera and shoot crap, then I've got as good a chance as they do to actually push myself to make something excellent. And by that, I mean so bad that it's good.

seanie blue

11-08-2006, 06:51 AM

if they can land a camera and shoot crap, then I've got as good a chance as they do to actually push myself to make something excellent. And by that, I mean so bad that it's good.

See Tarnation!

Jerm

11-08-2006, 09:54 PM

I live in Oklahoma, where specifically doesn't really matter, it's all pretty much the same depending if you live in east or west half, east is hilly west is flat.

Basically no film industry here, they did film twister not to far from where I use to live several years ago, and I knew the Highway Patrolmen that lended his vehicle for a shot but thats about it.

I was however talking to my agent the other day Moe Squito, he put a buzz in my ear about this bigtime producer that goes by the name Red, last name Neck. Evidentally Red was looking for a great script, what genre was not mentioned.

Moe said he stuck around Red for a little while letting him know a little bit about my script which contained some gory scenes about blood suckers! Red eventually put the smackdown to Moe and let him know that wasn't really the type of script he was looking for and was not interested.

So since I haven't heard from my agent in several weeks here in wonderful Oklahoma I started looking for a new one out of state.

nielsty

11-08-2006, 10:29 PM

At least you have an agent! In Denmark the market is too small for screenwriting agents to exist so it's pretty much every man for himself.

The good thing is that the industry doesn't exclude you because you don't have one :-)

TheRuleofThirds

11-08-2006, 11:57 PM

See Tarnation!

What's the best way to do it?

LitFa

11-08-2006, 11:58 PM

I live in Los Angeles. Here, almost everyone you talk to has a screenplay in the works. The competition is fierce. Most people keep their day jobs. I am probably going to go to grad school while I continue to try to brake into either the film or publishing industry. I am lucky that I live rent free (with family) but this is a very expensive place to live. They do have a lot of parties that you can go to to network though.

seanie blue

11-09-2006, 05:57 AM

They do have a lot of parties that you can go to to network though.

Classic!!! I was at the Rockstar party ten days ago, full of scantily-dressed babes of both sexes, everyone on a guestlist, you had to park your car far from the party and take a shuttle because they wanted to keep the location "secret," and every guy there was writing a screenplay or in the biz, and all the women seemed to be actress or model wannabes, and they were networking, all right. But no movie is coming out of that soggy mess.

You network one on one, always trying to meet people with power in Hollywood. The lawyers or the money. Then the producers. Then the stars, who hold the ultimate power. If you're pitching to a bunch of hungover twentysomethings, you'd better be hanging onto your day job, because no money is coming out of that process.

But, yeah, most people come to Hollywood to make it by partying. Takes an edge off the fear.

seanie blue

11-09-2006, 06:03 AM

What's the best way to do it?

Last i cjecked, Tarnation was in Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. Or you can get it through Netflix. For anyone really serious about going the cheap camera / Blair Witch / record my own bellybutton route, it's worth buying Tarnation for $20 from Amazon. This movie was made on a computer from home movies, and the director is now hobknobbing with producers and stars all over LA. Hilarious success story. Of course, he's an interesting guy, which is a lot of the battle, but no question his methods can be done by anyone.

Just do something original. There are already 1 million people trying to be the next Tarantino.

Another great film to see to show how regional movies can go straight into the heart of Hollywood: "All the Real Girls" out of Asheville, North Carolina. Beautiful movie. Cheap, perfectly written and realized. Several careers were launched out of this one.

nganok

11-09-2006, 07:00 AM

South Carolina. Just moved from Denver...I'm going in the wrong direction!

I am in St Louis but I was born and raised in South Carolina. I had dream once to make the Ports of Charleston the South's Hollywood. The Navy base closed down and there is luxury open space for studios right there in the port city. Just give it 30 years, I'll make it happen. or be the biggest fool in cinematic history. lol. SC does suck for most film art though. I'd say Atlanta is your best bet

nganok

11-09-2006, 07:04 AM

seanie blue

11-09-2006, 09:05 AM

I had dream once to make the Ports of Charleston the South's Hollywood. The Navy base closed down and there is luxury open space for studios right there in the port city. Just give it 30 years, I'll make it happen. or be the biggest fool in cinematic history.

Just these three lines in Hollywood will get you noticed. This guy or gal is a producer. That's exactly the kind of thinking thatgets movies made. I'm clapping. Why wait 30 years? I'm thinking of leaving Lalaland for Nashville for the warehouse spaces downtown. $300K buys you a theatre, and I've got a cadre of people moving there and about to move there -- TV might blossom out of al the music biz. What is the music scene like in Charleston? Hm, I have to investigate.

Amazing how many movies get made in places abandoned by the Navy. Big submarine repair shop in Connecticut got changed into a sound stage, and then the James Woods movie "Killers" or "The Killer" (for HBO?) was made there and now it's the best soundroom near NYC. And the owners are making movies, very approachable and willing to spend money, but usually on the guns and blazes B.S.

Goodwriterguy

11-09-2006, 10:05 AM

I am in St Louis but I was born and raised in South Carolina. I had dream once to make the Ports of Charleston the South's Hollywood. The Navy base closed down and there is luxury open space for studios right there in the port city. Just give it 30 years, I'll make it happen. or be the biggest fool in cinematic history. lol. SC does suck for most film art though. I'd say Atlanta is your best bet
Hasn't Charlotte become a kind of movie central of the South?

Goodwriterguy

11-09-2006, 10:15 AM

Just do something original. There are already 1 million people trying to be the next Tarantino.
Did I read you right ... you're originally from Las Vegas?

I wish I had a nickel for every hour I've spent in Clark County. Know the name "Tiberti," as in construction, or fence, or equipment rentals? They built the Orleans, the airport, the water systems, the high schools, the Palms, the libraries, and half of everything else in Vegas, and own the Barbary Coast. They're biggest privately owned construction company in Nevada. I was married to a daughter for years. My son has about 20 cousins in LV. I visit there every year when I travel down to Mexico, and again when I return in Spring. It's weird, but I like it, more fun than a barrel of monkeys, wild and crazy, fueled by Meth. I'm sure we could trade some Vegas stories.;)

mommyjo2

11-09-2006, 04:16 PM

The Navy base closed down and there is luxury open space for studios right there in the port city. Just give it 30 years,

Nah, Clemson bought it last week and has some $35 million project going on there.

Although, I haven't met or heard of a single screenwriter (or writer of any sort), when one of my husband's relatives tells me, "Oh, our roommate won some sort of contest this summer. He's looking for a screenwriting partner, you should get together".
He was a finalist in the AAA contest put on by CS. So, maybe I didn't go in the wrong direction after all. Haven't officially met though.

TheRuleofThirds

11-09-2006, 05:15 PM

I live in Los Angeles. Here, almost everyone you talk to has a screenplay in the works. The competition is fierce. Most people keep their day jobs.

See, this is why I've chosen to not go the Hollywood route. I'd rather stick around places where nobody else is really making movies. That way, when you tell people you're making a movie, they're willing to help out. Whether that means being extras, giving time and space, etc. I think it's much easier. Sure, you don't get to use the big toys, but with an XL-2, a great story, and adequate publicity, you can get your stuff out there. It's possible, it's being done.

Right now, I feel confident I can make it happen. The only thing really stopping me is me. My church has an XL-2, there are a couple of popular movie theaters in town that support indie filmmakers by screening their work, and the other filmmakers in the area aren't competitors so much as allies.

The thing that goes for any filmmaker anywhere is that if you can make a full-time job of it, you are very, very fortunate or you come by your income through other means.

Winterchase

11-09-2006, 07:50 PM

I live half way between East Jesus and Infinity, in the state of North Carolina, but with a Georgia address. To be precise; 34.59'.46.94"N -83.42'.42.41"W.

* For our American cousins, I do mean football here. Y'know, foot, moving ball. Not what you all call football, but what I like to refer to as sissy-rugby. "Oh no, I might get a grass-stain, I better wear a helmet and some sofa cushions under my shirt."

Many of those sissy guys are way bigger than the average size house and meaner than a pit-bull on the attack! To go up against them, I wouldn't wear a helmet and sofa cushions, I'd wear an M-1-A-1 Abrams tank! http://absolutewrite.com/forums/images/icons/icon7.gif

wordmonkey

11-09-2006, 09:00 PM

Many of those sissy guys are way bigger than the average size house and meaner than a pit-bull on the attack! To go up against them, I wouldn't wear a helmet and sofa cushions, I'd wear an M-1-A-1 Abrams tank! http://absolutewrite.com/forums/images/icons/icon7.gif

WAY-HEY! Someone took the bait!

In England (and many other countries) the same guys play rugby without the cushions, helmets or tanks.

I am of course, just messing here. But you would not believe the fun I can have talking about sissy-rugby, Thanksgiving Day, with my father-in-law trying to watch the game. I actually like American Football, but I simply have to utter sissy-rubgy and then start asking how many times they need to stop for a rest during four fifteen minute bits of game and he starts to fume. Totally ruins the game for him.

Oh I know. My Karma-o-meter takes a hit everytime I do it, but man it's sooooooooo worth it. :e2seesaw:

English Dave

11-09-2006, 09:15 PM

I actually like American Football, but I simply have to utter sissy-rubgy and then start asking how many times they need to stop for a rest during four fifteen minute bits of game and he starts to fume. Totally ruins the game for him.

Oh I know. My Karma-o-meter takes a hit everytime I do it, but man it's sooooooooo worth it. :e2seesaw:

I like American football too. The highlights that is. Those commercial breaks so the players can have mommy kiss it better get to me. :)