The creative use of settings can make a screenplay exciting and memorable. Changing the place of action to an uncommon location can make the story extremely...
... On the other hand, there's the issue that an exotic setting immediately makes a screenplay much, much harder to produce because of much greater production...
If it's a good script, Luc, it just doesn't matter...it will get sold....
also everyone uses computers, etc, etc to enhance scenes, crowds, etc... so
not the...
The message said creative settings. One of my favorite WKRP in Cincinatti episodes involved a bomb scare that sent the two DJ characters out to their broadcast...
Robbyn said, ... etc... I think this reflects a common perception, that computer animation makes incredible special effects easily in reach. The expense for...
And your point is ????? Sorry Luc...but..yup...it's the real world..and pix
cost dosh... but...most prod cos will find the dosh if they like the script,
meets...
... My point is that if you're writing a script with the intention of selling it and (with any luck) seeing it made, you may want to think twice before setting...
... Not any more. Effects cost less and less each day and are becoming pervasive. In some cases, effects are much cheaper than getting shots "in camera" and...
... This is a key question then. So far, the numbers I'm finding don't seem to bear out the idea that effects are affordable, but certainly I don't have...
Wonderful use of unique & creative setting - Closet Land (Alan Rickman/Madeline Stowe). 94 REALLY intense minutes from 1991. As far as special effects or...
You're looking at CGI-intensive big movies, which are a different animal. I'm talking about the everyday kind of CGI that's becoming pervasive. As I mentioned,...
The cost of CGI really depends on what you do with it. A battle sequence with a thousand orcs is going to cost much more than say, extending a corridor on a...
All interesting information. Thanks for posting it. The reason I seized on CGI-intensive big movies is that if you have a movie in space, a fantasy setting,...
John, great information. Sounds like the issue of scale makes a bigger difference then the issue of setting, although if we take only movies produced in the...
Hey: Kullervo knows stuff. Overall -- solid advice. (We're on another list.) Here's my two cents. First, I say one should think about "dramatic" settings, not...
Excellent point about excluding possible sales outlets for a script.. Also, in my experience, NOTHING looks worse than a $45mil budget film shot for $10mil (or...
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