Seriously looking at a shooting a proof of concept/trailer for an irish werewolf film. With zero clout and a good script i can't see any producers allowing us to direct this creature so loooking at shooting some scenes and gelling them together. Thoughts? Good or bad idea, does it get us a nose ahead or shoot us in the foot? Any experience on this? Cheers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3jp7ohih18
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A piece of advice I heard and try to hold close in times of doubt is "People like to join a moving train, not one sitting at the station."
Meaning, everybody has a script and your script is probably similar to ten other scripts. So the more you can do to make yours stand out as different and better, the more chance you have to getting it made into a real movie. To get that kind of interest CAN mean (but not always mean) that if someone (an investor, producer, etc) sees not only a good script (it doesn't have to be perfect), but a PROJECT in motion, then they are more likely to take a genuine look at it and see if it's worth their time. Plus, if you have momentum, a potential cast, a preliminary budget, etc, that's less work for them to do which makes people happy (Less work, more money!).
I wrote a book a few years back and in the early stages, I was only able to tell people "I'm writing a book." Attitudes changed after I made a mock-up of a few chapters, complete with a bound cover and color photos and quality paper stock. Now that I could SHOW people "a book," the enthusiasm went from "Oh, cool," to "That's great, when will it be finished so I can read it?!" That mock up got me a literary agent who then found a publisher.
So yes, go ahead with a sizzle reel trailer...something that shows the potential of the feature but is also a high quality carrot to get them excited.
LOVE that clipomatic, Mo Yusuf! It's definitely a great example that you can sell the idea without having the footage yet.
Mmm, Brian Dzyak what a great quote! Did you share this in the Screenwriting Lounge as well? Another member is looking for "Screenwriting Maxims" and this one seems applicable to both production and screenwriting: https://www.stage32.com/lounge/screenwriting/I-am-looking-for-the-screen...
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Thats Brilliant Brian. Great advice. You have just pushed the snowball ;)
Super link Mo. Thanks for that. Will be forwarding that to the production team.
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Thanks, Karen. All the best Rob Kelly
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Go for it as producers love to see a trailer that adds to your passion for working hard and doing whatever you need to do to make it happen, just make sure it is good quality.
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Well sure while I was awy
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First scene down.. Not that it was in the script but there was a beautiful poppy field in bloom and we arranged to shoot on it.. simple shot of guy heading through field.. but then his shirt is open, so as to have prosthetics on his chest, Dp wants to bring drones.. etc etc snow ball.. In anyways got some beautiful shots. Only problem was it was one of the hottest couple of weeks ever in Ireland so the Poppy's had wilted.. but kinda fits in with our story and made it work. Might stil be shooting this next year by ythe way things are going so may do a reshoot :D