Want To Make A Hundred Million Dollar Movie..?

A student is diving into an essential piece of LIFEWRITING homework: want to learn to write scripts? Then along with constant writing (I’d aim at a short script a month) watch a movie every Saturday night, simultaneously reading the script. With really good movies, you might want to watch the film twice: once for pleasure, once to learn while reading.

This is your homework, and if you’ll do this every week, in a year you’ll have more practical knowledge of film than most MFA students. Read about directors and writers, and you’ll see how often they get together for movie parties at night with their friends, DROWNING their egos in the work of masters. Allowing unconscious webs of association and understanding to form in the deep mind. Combine this with a serious work ethic, and you have a doorway to excellence.

The “Six Step” process might then be:

1. Write a sentence a day.
2. Watch a movie a week while reading the script
3. Write one short script a month.
4. Shop those scripts to local drama clubs and film classes at a college
5. Collaborate with them, or friends, and make four short films a year.
6. Post them on Youtube.

If you write a one-act play and film it on your Iphone with local actors and standing sets, you can easily make a movie for fifty bucks worth of Subway and donuts. Use that to raise 500 bucks for your next one. Use that to raise…