At what point do you decide to reveal a twist in a screenplay?

[Brian Drysdale]

Directors do things in different ways, you keep looking for rules, when there's only a basic grammar which you can take and run with.

[Paul R Johnson]

Some people have the idea, then the courage, to go in different directions. They trust their own judgement, they know things will work. The team under them respect their judgement.If, at the end of the day, the thing fails badly - the lower levels of the pyramid are unaffected - the person at the top could be, or could ride it.

It's down to that person's ability and stature.

Sadly - irrelevant now really, as we're losing so many of our industry currently with everyone out of work, and the immediate future not good.

Perhaps now is a good time to NOT going into this business.

[Ryan Elder]

Yeah it seems the rental stores for equipment are closing lately, but others say I should make a bigger project now and be proud of it and finish it, before the situation gets worse. Do you think they have a point, that it will just get worse later, so I should do it now?

[Brian Drysdale]

It really depends, if it was a short it mightn't be an issue, however, if you're shooting over a period of a month, things can change very quick;y. If you find yourself in a hot spot everything can go into shut down.

If you're ready to shoot next week it might be worth having a go, but, if not, the bell curve will come rolling in. Feature films need outside services, so shooting when people are fighting over toilet rolls may not assist you on the resources front Given how poor the advice of some of the people you know actually is, it should be treated with caution

The other thing to consider is if you film is going to appeal in the post COVID-19 market place.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/coron...ch19-1.5502505

"Saskatchewan also declared a state of emergency to tackle COVID-19, and the province's top public health official is urging people to take social distancing seriously. The province announced four new cases Thursday. It banned public gatherings of more than 50 people, said restaurants and bars need to keep half their seats empty, and said businesses that are allowed to remain open — including grocery stores, pharmacies and gas stations — must have processes that maintain "one-to-two-metre" separation. Read more about what's happening in Saskatchewan. "

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saska...sask-1.5502735

[Paul R Johnson]

One thing springs to mind - now is the time to get decent professionals to make your movie, bceause they have no work, so if you dangle modest money, they will bite ON YOUR TERMS - so you can ask for specific guaranteed dates, the rental stores will let you have kit cheap and for you, it's an ideal time. People need to feed their families. If you have the budget set aside - they'll love to work for you.

Problem will be the scale and available timescale for you to organise it all.

[Josh Bass]

He will, of course have to block his shots so that no one will ever be closer than 10 feet to anyone else, no one can ever touch anything anyone else touches, and every scene will have 20 seconds of hand washing for each character

[Paul R Johnson]

That's fine - Ryan is always a long way away so he can use his zoom lens.

[Pete Cofrancesco]

Originally Posted by Paul R Johnson

That's fine - Ryan is always a long way away so he can use his zoom lens.

lol.

I think Ryan will need to replan the entire movie for social distancing

[Josh Bass]

perhaps instead of a serial killer its someone who psychologically tortures people to death via Skype

[Brian Drysdale]

If he was in Italy he could do a Rear Window version of that.

[Josh Bass]

that’s another great idea...perhaps all the characters can yell at each other from opposing balconies.

[Pete Cofrancesco]

I’m surprised he hasn’t asked what telephoto lens they used in Rear Window.

I was recently watching MST3K Manos: The Hands of Fate. That movie was made by fertilizer salesman to win a bet he couldn’t film a feature. Made me think of Ryan.

[Josh Bass]

Heard of if, never seen it.

[Pete Cofrancesco]

Originally Posted by Josh Bass

Heard of if, never seen it.

Only watch the mst3k version and its so bad i couldn’t watch without skimming through it.

I just saw this it’s hilarious and more to the point. Script Cops

https://www.google.com/search?q=scri...=firefox-b-1-m

[Josh Bass]

Im getting a privacy settings error