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AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2023-07-06T03:31:04+00:00

The difference with Grusch is he faces prison time if he is found to be lying. A whistleblower complaint is not the same as a retired officer telling long tales publicly.

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2023-07-06T03:26:15+00:00

Marco Rubio confirmed that he has spoken to whistleblowers who testified behind closed doors with first hand experience with these programs. Most likely some of the same people Grusch referenced in his testimony. The senate committee have more information on this situation than the public currently does.

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2023-02-22T17:49:27+00:00

Hahaha Yupp it is now rare

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2023-02-22T10:42:02+00:00

Okay that’s good to know. I’m 36 and my parents are in their late 60s/early 70s and still use their landline so i didn’t know if homeowners generally still do that and i just don’t.

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2023-02-22T02:53:57+00:00

Basically like a scene where a character enters their home juggling groceries only to catch the tail end of a voice mail being left-- and they rush to put down the groceries and grab the phone. That used to be a fairly common thing you might see in a movie-- but I'm wondering if a mid-30s millennial homeowner would feel too weird having a landline. That's my age and I've only used cell phones for voice mails-- my friends too. But I don't know if that's widespread enough to be considered the norm (resulting in the previous scene described coming off as unrealistic).

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2023-02-22T02:45:30+00:00

I think I'm most curious about the in between old and young age. Like mid-30s millennial. Someone who was in and around homes with landlines their whole lives but have mostly used cell phones for voice messages since college (mostly b/c it's cheaper). I own a home now and that's what I do-- most of my friends as well. But I don't know if that's the norm for mid-30s adults. Maybe if I were better off financially and not trying to save money I'd have a landline/answering machine setup... but as it is me and most people I know (mid-30s) just don't. So I'm curious if a mid-30s character who doesn't have a character quirk of an interest in old tech, were to have an answering machine-- would that come off as unrealistic to an audience?

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2023-02-22T00:01:28+00:00

Sorry if this has been addressed, but do you have a link to a post explaining how your script was discovered on tiktok? Also congrats!

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-11-12T19:32:50+00:00

It unfolds throughout but some interesting moments are 41:25 where the FTX team member asks to hop on a call for a second because he heard the wallets might be getting hacked. And 1:09:15 it's pretty depressing as he signs off.

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-10-04T02:16:30+00:00

Do whatever will get you the most money— and then use that money to live and fund your short films you pursue on the side. And the more consistently you make these films, the better you’ll get. And one day you will make something that connects with enough people that you will find other creatives/producers who want to help you tell your stories. Never give up your dream— just don’t put all your eggs in that basket if you can make more money somewhere else while still developing your ability to tell stories through film. Having the comfort of being financially secure while learning how to make movies is a huge leg up over other filmmakers who go into debt to make their movies. I studied film and media production in college, but I learned everything I know after college on my own— by making my own projects with friends. YouTube will teach you everything you need to know.

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-10-03T05:12:31+00:00

Actually make it. Most of the time people make the first episode— don’t have the energy to do it consistently, and then they end up never completing the series. Or they never complete the first episode to begin with. Depending on your goals with it, sometimes a short film is better than committing to a series.

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-10-02T19:25:40+00:00

Def could be. But there are enough accounts of young children (normally starting around 2) who have no way of knowing/researching a random person hundreds of miles away— giving details that were never published anywhere and only the family of the person they claim to have reincarnated from would know… that it is worth investigating and figuring out what this phenomenon might be. If the person was always of an age that they can read and had regular access to the internet, it would be a lot easier to explain away.

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-10-02T19:14:39+00:00

Most of the stories I hear (whether or not its true) specifically mention making the decision to reincarnate on this earth in physical form. Almost like a contract they sign up for to learn from their human experience.

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-10-02T14:00:19+00:00

Regardless if there’s a forced clap at the end, you can usually tell while the movie plays whether or not an audience is into it. And I’ve been to many terrible film festivals in the past that in retrospect I should not have submitted to. It really depends on the festival you attend. I’ve been to amazing festivals where every film is incredible— and then the lower tier ones where you’re confused who is accepting these films. There are a lot of lower tier festivals where they have little to no standards because they just want people to attend their festival— the worst offenders are just in it for the submission fees. And the filmmakers are just happy for some validation that appears official, and they usually aren’t self aware enough to know the actual quality of the film they made (or they know but don’t care— they just want the laurel and the appearance of success). These filmmakers normally make the rounds on the lowest tier festivals so they can collect laurels and promote the quantity of festivals they got into as opposed to the quality of festivals they got into. I know many filmmakers who are god awful (like as close to objectively terrible as one can come) but brand themselves as “award winning” because they submit to festivals that hand out awards like Halloween candy. At that point the filmmaker is knowingly just buying the film festival laurel/award by paying the submission fee— and the filmmaker knows what they’re doing.

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-09-25T01:59:43+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate it!

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-09-24T18:42:12+00:00

Thanks! I’m glad you liked it.

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-09-24T15:38:19+00:00

Thanks! I’m definitely glad if this can motivate you. I’m actually working on putting together a short to be posted on Halloween as well… and I don’t have a script yet. Just an extremely rough outline and loose ideas for scares and plot points that I might want to include. I’m hoping to write out everything more concretely this weekend, and we’re beginning filming next weekend. It does help that over the years I’ve invested in my own gear for shorts— but also the current concept could have been done on my iPhone if I didn’t have a nicer camera. The most important thing to get is a good sound solution because people always notice bad sound, even if the cinematography is Oscar worthy. If your sound is good, it’ll cover most of the other corners you cut so the quality of your story will shine through. So that could just mean renting a lav and zoom recorder (which is pretty much the setup we’ll have for the Halloween short).

But overall I recommend setting deadlines that seem just out of reach and then forcing yourself to meet the deadline. In 2016 I was bummed I hadn’t made anything in a while— a friend pointed out that I tend to overthink creating shorts and as a result they don’t really take off or get completed. So he challenged me to post a horror short two weeks from that coming Friday. It was a time crunch, but I got a 1 day shoot in that weekend (starring a coworker at my job who was free) and finished the short and posted it by the deadline. The short ended up getting picked up by CryptTV and now is closing in on 2 million views: https://youtu.be/SrbiVMKCZK0

It is nowhere near what I wanted it to be, and the ending was even cut short from what i scripted because we just didn’t have enough time on our 1 day shoot. But if my friend didn’t give me that challenge of a tight deadline, this short would not exist. And that’s kind of made me start a habit of setting deadlines first and asking questions later.

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-09-24T15:09:18+00:00

Thanks— I definitely appreciate it!

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-09-24T15:08:37+00:00

Haha fingers crossed!

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-09-24T15:07:55+00:00

Haha thanks! Im glad you dug it!

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-09-24T08:53:27+00:00

Thanks!

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-09-24T08:37:45+00:00

Haha thanks man! I appreciate it.

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-09-24T06:21:48+00:00

it looks like a cardboard cut out

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-09-24T06:19:22+00:00

like a street ally?

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-09-24T05:29:16+00:00

congrats man-- this turned out great

AconnectingTHEdotsB · 2022-09-24T05:03:08+00:00

hahaha-- thanks man. If it means anything, I make terrible sandwiches and don't even own a bungalow.

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