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What is your proceedure for picking which idea you want to turn into a film?
after I've come up with an idea I'll freely tell my friends about it to see if I enjoy discussing it, then I usually let my better ideas gestate in my mind for many weeks before I pay them any real attention and then once I decide to look into them I am super critical about the marketing and sponsorship of the project usually before I bring any more creative focus to the idea.
How do you pick which idea you want to work on?
I don't look for new ideas but they seem to find me anyway.
Gershom Hyldreth I had an idea about a hot air balloon expedition, so I wanted to ensure that there was an audience for the film before I sought sponsorship. So I made a huge list of all the Balloon Magazines, blogs, famous living balloonists and companies that make balloons and then assessed if it was a viable target audience based on the number of people interested, how often they post and whether there is any crossover with any other community that would find interest in my film. In the end I realised that there really isn't a big enough community to target it only, so I decided to convert one of my characters to a biologist because I realised that the community of field scientists is a large and vibrant one with a lot of interaction.
I've had quite an interesting life, so my friends tell me, so I pull from there. My tv pilot is based on me and something I did; my first novel is a fictionalized account of part of my life; and my new novel is even inspired by my real life. My play, however, was inspired by what I see down here in the South. So basically, I write what I know and see.
Reading, listening to music, watching films (it doesn´t matter... Batman or Dogville hahaha)...
For me it is the best to vision the scenery in details, faces, rooms, places. Got a huge fantasy in doing this since my childhood. My stories are grounded on this and the experiences of the way of real lifes and global circumstances.
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I write what I know. I write from observations in life. I take inspiration from my own adventures or experiences. That where I go.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. The real trick is picking one that you can execute with enough passion and originality to make it great.
I can tell in the first page of a script or trailer, anything I have had my producers package, A-list talent ASKS to be a part of....it isn't genre, it is the powerful full body immediate gut reaction. I sound like a freak I know. I am also not being flippant....or rude
For me, it usually it starts with a basic theme.
I write it down and any other associated ideas that come with it. Goes in my folder of "undeveloped ideas" unless I keep getting more ideas regarding it which then it gets more attention. Just had this happen with an idea for a dramatic TV show. Idea popped in my head, wrote it down, idea for different seasons, wrote it down. Idea for a different angle on that premise, wrote it down, etc.
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It has to be something I can't stop thinking about and ultimately have to put out into the world.
I once had a meeting with a veteran sitcom writer who told me, thanks to the internet, if you're interested in something there's a big chance other people will be too. Find your audience and connect with them. There are communities being built around anything and everything.
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When I get an idea, I keep it to myself. Then, before it evaporates (it happens), I write down all my thoughts regarding story, character in point form. A creative dump. Then I write an outline. It works for me.
I try to forget it. If I can't, I write it.
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I have a filmmaker friend who says since things take so long to get going, he doesn't move on anything that he wouldn't want to live with for 5-10 years.
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For me it has to be funny, unique, and something I would spend $15 on to see in the theaters. And more importantly, something I feel passionate enough about to spend the next year of my life working on.