Mentor Meeting 2/10/2011 The First One!

For my first meeting with Mr Heurich my mentor the first thing we talked about was script writing books. He gave me two great books listed below on helpful hints with script writing.

Script Writing books:
Making A Good Script Great by Linda Seger
How to Write a Selling Screenplay

We then hashed out a rough calendar for mostly long term goals that I can work towards.
Overall Plan for the project:

Long term project goals:

Pre-Production Complete: March 13th
Production Complete: April 30th
Post-Production Complete May 29th

Short term project goals:
Going to Lowes and OHM for Sounds Boom equipment: Hopefully this weekend. Watch videos on how to make home made sound booms. Go to Lowes, buy the pole and rummage around to see if anything looks good for the sound boom. Go to OHM electronics for the Mic Clip.

In order for my film to have good sound since my camera's sound isn't the greatest. Mr. Heurich and myself are making our own home made sound boom!!! Below are some of the materials that we will being getting in order to make the boom and be sure to check out a post in the near future full of diagrams, video, and an explanation on how we made the boom.


Mic Boom:

Wooster Extension Pole, its used for painting however, we will be using it as the pole for  our mic boom 

This is an example of the mic clip that we will be using to attach to the end of the pole

Two Week Plan

For the first two weeks of work on my project I first want to lay out a clear calendar for my project so I have some long term goals to work towards. Then I want to fully hash out the basic plot line for my movie and then just jump right into script writing. My goal at the end of the first two weeks is to have around 20 pages or so finished of my script. I am shooting for around a 45 minute movie in total and going by the industry standard of 1 minute per page I would be about half way done with my script. Now I realize that is somewhat of a lofty goal but I want to shoot high to really push myself. In doing this www.screenwriting.info will be extremely helpful to me for it breaks down script writing into sections and is a great learning tool for those who are just starting out. Also I am planning on making contact again with Professor Sahara Byrne who used to work in Hollywood with script writers all the time. Look for a post within the next couple of days for my calendar and for my first mentor meeting.

First Post!!!!!

Well for my first post I wanted to tell those who are reading this a little about me and this project that I am undertaking. My name is Robbie and I am a High School senior in the WISE program. WISE is an english program where you have a semester of English and then for the second semester you work on a project of your choosing. For my project I have decided to make a movie. I am going to write the script, film and then edit the movie myself. I am really excited for this project for I absolutely love movies and have always dreamed of making my own film one day.