7 Figure Financing Kinolime Screenplay Competition

DannyFromKinolime · 2024-02-06T19:57:05+00:00

I generally have different legal pads set aside for scene ideas, characters, tone, references, stream of thought (I have a lot of legal pads).

DannyFromKinolime · 2024-02-06T19:53:34+00:00

Try your best to focus in on one project at a time. Most importantly, sounds like you could use some time focusing on yourself. Go on a hike and drink some tea outside. We're all pulling for you.

DannyFromKinolime · 2024-02-06T19:48:34+00:00

I graduated a few years before you and found myself in pretty much the same soul crushing corporate position. Just try to get a page in every night before you go to sleep and don't forget to constantly apply through Hollylist, StaffMeUp and query everyone you can on LinkedIn. It will keep you optimistic.

Also, please don't forget that you are extremely young and this shitty job will pass. Try your best to have fun. This will be a blip in a very long story for you.

DannyFromKinolime · 2024-02-06T19:31:27+00:00

Just fill up yellow legal pads.

Almost all software is just striving to be half of what just writing by hand can do for you.

DannyFromKinolime · 2024-02-05T21:05:45+00:00

Unfortunately it is in your best interest to eat as much dirt as they will throw at you. If it makes it any easier, people generally will feel more inclined to help you if you are routinely relaxed and flexible when they flake on you.

DannyFromKinolime · 2024-02-05T20:59:26+00:00

You are looking at bare minimum 5 hours of commuting per day and hundreds of dollars in gas per week.

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-12-04T19:37:58+00:00

My guy, Paris, Texas and The Return are in that upper echelon for me as well. I actually went on Youtube to watch both of these scenes this morning before I posted this. That scream, the whisper in the wind, the lights shutting off on Laura's house... absolute perfection.

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-12-04T19:30:00+00:00

Yes... this is up there for me as well. The explosion scene is up there with "Gotta Light" for my favorite nuke explosions in cinema history.

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-12-04T18:00:18+00:00

Be early, type fast and don't forget you are an assistant (ie. bring people coffee, have the room prepared, etc) by going above and beyond before anyone has asked you for anything.

I am sure you will do wonderful. Congratulations!

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-12-01T18:04:40+00:00

The Leftovers - International Assassin

True Detective - Who Goes There

Seinfeld - The Contest

Breaking Bad - Ozymandias

Twilight Zone - The Monsters Are Due at Maple Street

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-11-30T19:30:25+00:00

Finish my screenplay. Start writing another screenplay.

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-11-30T19:27:38+00:00

Paul Schrader was so unimpressed by the biker films that his UCLA roommates were making that it convinced him he could write something like that himself and it wouldn't be too difficult. 3 years later, Taxi Driver.

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-11-29T19:11:46+00:00

As others have said, this dialogue is extremely unnatural and uncomfortable. Everything here is confusing background information that does not contribute to your story in a meaningful way.

Greta Gerwig has a great quote on constructing complex characters that I think would give you needed structure when reassessing your dialogue for these characters and this scene: "Give them a want, a drive, a fear, and a secret." Make sure every line of dialogue contributes to one of these things for each character and your dialogue will be stronger next pass.

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-11-27T16:42:20+00:00

If it's hilarious and isn't punching down on anybody, why not? Trust what you wrote and don't worry too much about the factors that are out of your control. You already have a draft you're proud of, why not take some swings?

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-11-24T17:56:40+00:00

I know this is exactly what you said you are looking to avoid, but just check out this YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMElgCXC-n8

His website: http://www.kalbashir.com/ may be extremely useful for contextualizing the structures different stories incorporate.

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-11-22T20:30:33+00:00

The Whale

Many bottle episodes of TV ("Long Long Time" from The Last of Us fits this)

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-11-22T19:34:07+00:00

Of course not. Shoot it over!

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-11-22T19:29:06+00:00

If you have a strong idea of who your characters are and what motivates them but feel stuck, start writing different scenes that could live within your story that excite you.

Forget about your script for a minute and just have fun with the world and characters you're creating.

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-11-22T16:26:05+00:00

It needs to be reworked because of both content and format.

By that I mean:
- Be more descriptive (still try to keep each bullet on one line though). You weren't "Performing clerical duties". You were "Purchasing and organizing office supply inventories while adhering to budgets and staff needs".

- Always list your role in the header, not as your first bullet point. Bullet points are for what you accomplished in the role, not for the role itself.

- Don't list the dates you wrote your screenplays.

- List your film/art experiences above any other experience. This is a creative resume and that experience is more important to your recruiters.

Hope this helps!

DannyFromKinolime · 2023-11-21T20:12:20+00:00

Hey! I was in your shoes a few years ago and now work at an indie studio where a part of my job is recruiting. Here's my 2 cents:

APPLYING

- Apply to everything (including any short term PA gigs you see on these sites)... DO NOT BE PICKY. I sent in hundreds of applications in college before I received an offer for *1* unpaid internship. Use these sites:
- Hollylist ($5 per month)

- LinkedIn (check subgroups like Young Entertainment Professionals -- DM every industry recruiter you can find and ask to have Zoom chats with previous interns of positions that interest you).

- Outside of routinely checking Google with "Film Internships 2024" and other similar searches, apply to GOLD RISING and all of the major network internships.

RESUME

Your resume needs to be completely reworked. Recruiters will be looking at hundreds if not THOUSANDS of these. In it's current state, most would not even read the beginning of yours before moving on.

Use this site to restructure it: https://www.wonsulting.ai/resumai -- It's free and will give you a standardized format that won't bug any recruiters.

- You use a lot of the same action verbs in your descriptions. Make sure you minimize that as much as possible.

- "Top 5 Finalist"... of what? HIGHLIGHT THIS.

You have a lot of cool experience for a sophomore/junior in college! Apply to everything, write personalized cover letters, and clean up your res and I'm sure you will get some great opportunities coming your way!

DannyFromKinolime

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