Category Archives: Thing Learned After managing and/or running two successful Kickstarter campaigns back to back, I learned some lessons the hard way, and was delightfully intrigued by other quirks. I’d like to share some of my newest lessons learned. Lesson #1 – Get to know the 5 backers you’ll meet on Kickstarter. 1) Family/Close Friends with disposable income –... When an actor or actress steps into the skin of a character for a while, they can become attached to that character. Barring reshoots & ADR, once they finish with their scenes, their character essentially dies. The actor may inadvertently dress like the character again if they supplied their own wardrobe, but the playing of... Attention is such a fickle thing, and with the advent of streaming, Instant Watch, VOD, etc, just capturing someone’s attention grows more difficult with the rising supply of material and the easy means of consumption. Even after you get someone to notice your work, you have to keep them there somehow. If it’s a short... http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html It is humorous, but it will also save you from some very silly clichés when writing your antagonist. The thing I have to continually remember is that the antagonist should be the protagonist of their own story. They shouldn’t want badness for the sake of badness, but their version of goodness (however twisted it... Think about elements in your screenplay that might look horrendously silly in 5 years… 10 years… Technology is a big concern… it’s hard to take a villain as seriously if they’re talking to the hero on a huge chunk of a “cellular telephone.” Several of my characters in Greyscale were talking on iPhone 3Gs, and... |
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