We all have an ocean of ideas. In this vast collection only a few are movie ideas. We may be able to sort them out quickly, or it may be a long and painful process.
But what to do with the ideas that are not movies or a series.
Short stories is the answer. No writing is bad writing. You always learn from it. I am going to publish a book of ideas as short stories. It also protects my ideas as they are now copyright to me. If they are to be adapted. I get some of that wonderful cash and do no extra work.
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Every idea is bad at start...just think Dan O'Bannon's "Alien" was a goofy "Dark Star" at first...Rodrigues did "El Mariachi" on a string budget and it showed...then did it again, this time "Desperado" with Banderas and crew...well "another" story...
Don’t focus on the word “bad”. A bad movie idea can be an amazing story idea. A corporate take over may be an amazing story, but boring as a movie. To make it a movie we would have to have a character and we show her struggle during this take over etc.
Look at the film “Erin Brockovich”, a great movie story. But the story of the town could be just as great without Erin. But we needed her for the story of the town to work. We needed her story.
Some ideas are just never meant to be movies. We can force them into a form that enables us to use film to tell the story. But then it isn’t the original story.
This book is going to be those stories.
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Or as Steven Spielberg put it: "All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long".
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Yes, great idea. I've been considering this quite a lot lately.
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Ewan, there are no bad ideas. What about the story of a mute girl think responses to overheard conversations. Not a great movie idea but could be a hilarious novel or short story. I don’t think I mentioned bad ideas once.
Michael,
You should do it. I have found it is a completely different set of thinking muscles. I found myself starting each paragraph with a visual similar to the first thing I would write under a scene heading.