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There's a lot of different approaches to making a movie. This is the way we do it, and it works best for us. The first step is always the hardest, coming up with an idea. We'll think about tons of ideas before we pick one that we like best. Sometimes we brainstorm ideas endlessly, but the best ideas usually come to us when we least expect it. Once we have an idea for the movie, we start writing a script. Depending on the length of the movie we're about to make, the script can take anywhere from an hour to a week to write. Sometimes we'll even start filming before the script is finished. Our scripts look nothing like real movie scripts. It's not well formatted and doesn't use any spiffy director terms. We write the scripts in the way that makes most sense to us. That generally includes a lot of run-on sentences and even incomplete sentences, and sometimes little doodles. Take a look at the script for SD3.
Jeff and I both have horrible child-like handwriting. We are usually the only people that understand the script. Once we the think the script is good enough to start filming, we type up a Shooting Script. We tend to keep one script for the whole movie, and we don't take very good care of it. The scripts usually sit in the dirt, get folded into numerous pockets, and fight some other bad conditions. I usually carry a Sharpie with me to cross out what we already filmed. We don't film the movie in order either. We film whatever scene we can get done first, based on who's around and where we have to go to film it. We know the movie is done, once every line is crossed out with a sharpie.
Almost always, things that were never in the script end up in the movie. We like to improvise sometimes, or come up with new ideas on the spot. Sometimes something in the script just isn't working for us, so we change it or just take it out altogether. We film our movies on MiniDV tapes. I have a Converse shoe box filled with at least 25 tapes. I don't have enough money at the moment to buy more tapes, so when we start filming a movie I go through the tapes to find one or two to tape over. It's usually old concert or graduation footage that we tape over.
Once we're done filming or even during, I start the editing process. I have to transfer the footage to one computer, save it to a flash drive, and then save it to my laptop to edit. My laptop is quite ghetto. I fell on it one night, and the screen is completely cracked. I have to hook it up to a monitor next to my bed, which takes away the whole freedom of being a laptop. These days, I edit our movies with Ulead Video Studio 11. Then the movie gets saved, uploaded to YouTube and MySpace, and then finally posted on our MySpace and website. Then I pray people like it. Thus completeing the movie process.
The script in SuperDick.
The script in Billy Stone
Once we're done filming or even during, I start the editing process. I have to transfer the footage to one computer, save it to a flash drive, and then save it to my laptop to edit. My laptop is quite ghetto. I fell on it one night, and the screen is completely cracked. I have to hook it up to a monitor next to my bed, which takes away the whole freedom of being a laptop. These days, I edit our movies with Ulead Video Studio 11. Then the movie gets saved, uploaded to YouTube and MySpace, and then finally posted on our MySpace and website. Then I pray people like it. Thus completeing the movie process.
The script in SuperDick.
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