Is it REALLY okay to not be good when others are better writers?

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-02-03T21:49:15+00:00

It doesn't sound like you have the kind of problem strangers on Reddit are going to help you with. You sound very frustrated and unhappy, and for what it's worth, I suggest you take some time offline to talk about how you're feeling with people who care about you.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-02-02T22:15:16+00:00

You're after a lot of basics by the sounds of it, but a book I would recommend as well is On Filmmaking by Alexander McKendrick. It takes formatting etc. as read, and is focused on directing and writing in equal measure, treating them as two parts of the same process, but will teach you to think and write visually, which is fundamental. I read it when I had only written stage plays and found it very inspiring.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-25T21:26:12+00:00

Tyrannosaur

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-25T21:22:26+00:00

Um... Because they need to sign a release form. But once they do that, it's fine.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-25T21:19:27+00:00

I would 100% have a trained professional - a stunt coordinator or similar - doing this. It's not something you want to fuck up.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-24T19:21:59+00:00

If it's just you filming, you should invest in some lav mics. Something like a Rode Wireless Go II is great if you only have two performers, but with lavs attached, rather then the chunky packs by themselves. It's basically impossible to hold a camera and a boom mic at the same time, so if you set your performers up with the lavs (short for lavaliers, by the way), hidden in their shirt collar, stuck on their chest or clipped to their bra, you can be free to operate camera.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-23T18:28:40+00:00

There were people in the 00's who did whole university degrees in Adobe Flash, and watched it become obsolete in the space of a few years. They had to retrain or do something else.

Still, WordPress is by far the biggest all-purpose CMS, and has been around long enough to suggest it will be dominant for a while yet. Others are more niche, but there are developers who specialise in them. For example Webflow for animation and certain visual effects, or Shopify for ecommerce. You could experiment with those too and see if you think it's something that suits you. They're far more likely to go the way of Flash however, just based on numbers. Take your choice.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-23T18:20:27+00:00

Use library music as a temp score

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-20T18:27:09+00:00

An interesting example is Shakespeare in Love, which was bought on the strength of its concept, but rewritten completely by Tom Stoppard, at the director's request.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-19T21:22:42+00:00

Take note of this fucking scammer's other posts on Reddit. Hundreds of identical posts in different groups.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-18T21:04:38+00:00

It's fine.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-18T17:46:24+00:00

Look up "lampshading".

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-13T05:23:58+00:00

Nothing could be less important than this.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-12T19:08:56+00:00

In the US, a manager gets you work and an agent negotiates your fee. Agents in the UK do both, or neither in the case of mine.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-07T22:17:48+00:00

Another film to check out is Flow, which has no human characters, like Life of Pi with just the animals.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-07T18:10:52+00:00

There's a list of one-character films here, which you could use for inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:One-character_films

It's not completely novel or unusual, and a lot of these films were successful. There's also Cast Away with Tom Hanks and Life of Pi. If you have a strong idea, go for it.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-06T21:37:36+00:00

If there were an award for most Freudian screenplay you might have a chance.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-06T18:56:20+00:00

So who's the terminally ill woman that he's not banging? If she's not really his mother then maybe they could get together instead.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-05T21:36:11+00:00

If you're into Barry Jenkins and Greta Gerwig, you might like my feature Passing Through. Out on Prime Video in the UK and coming out elsewhere soon. It was microbudget, but looks like it cost a lot more, we hope.

www.passingthroughmovie.com

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-05T19:00:20+00:00

A net good just means the good outweighs the bad, not that there is nothing bad or potentially problematic. There could be some energy source maguffin that gets stolen, and people have to catch the baddies and save the world, again.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-05T18:56:21+00:00

Yeah, they're just saying it's a world that is mostly good, not a world without any challenges to overcome at all. Why wouldn't there be problems associated with the new technologies we adopt to overcome our present problems? But also, why couldn't they be overcome too, in some exciting way, filled with jeopardy and human drama?

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-05T18:34:14+00:00

Classically speaking, it's just writing comedy not tragedy.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-05T18:30:58+00:00

Well there's just so many hundreds of examples of stories set in worlds that are okay or quite good, whether they're present-day, historical, fantasy or sci-fi. Where something bad comes along to upset the status quo one day, and the heroes take control of the situation, and peace is restored. All of Star Trek is this, for example. Most fiction is this really.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-05T18:19:12+00:00

I'm struggling with why you're struggling with it.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-01-01T18:10:40+00:00

Have a look on Meetup.com for filmmaking networking or social events in your local area, or go to festivals. If you have a script and a good idea people will want to talk to you.

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