Back to business as it were. I know I haven't been adding much to my journal, besides the 30 movie meme, and that's mainly been because I've been at my parent's house. Not that that stops me, obviously, but that I don't like their computer. The thing is ancient, incredibly slow, and their old ergonomic keyboard is annoying. The piece is also prone to shutting down and giving me a bluescreen because I didn't pet and coddle it correctly, as well as just being junk. So I haven't been writting much. But then I remembered I had also brought my laptop with me, hijacked their satellite line, and can now do what I want without (much) fear of imminent shutdown.
And when I say back to business, I mean relaying ideas I have that I probably don't have the time or capacity for at the moment. But they're fun, and it's easier to write it down than just bottle it up.
Thataway is this weird little movie idea I had while up at my parent's. I see it as something of a road-trip movie, two guys tired of what they're doing and on a whim climb into their vehicle, drive to a highway and literally when asked where are we going; "Thataway."
Two turns into four when they pick up some hitchhikers, who stick with them for the long haul (bearing anything that happens along the way, it's all still very fuzzy). The whole thing at the moment is very aimless, just people tired of boredom and who decided to do "something." Where are they going? Even they don't know. They want to experience something, and are willing to let whatever happen, happen.
I'm trying to think of stuff to happen; nothing big mind you, but just because you can condense something down to the bare bones doesn't make that something people want to watch. And what anyone talks about can be so esoteric that only those who get the joke can enjoy it. I do foresee some mindless conversations, hopefully something that can be called back to later, but you can't have a movie based entirely around mindlessness; well, and call it good. The aim would be something mildly festival worthy at least, not some avant-garde, college experimental piece that's meant to be "art". If it's good, it can be art; if it's art, you're trying to hard.
The kinda cool thing is, if I can flesh this out to something a little more sustainable, I know a guy who might take a chance to make it. Nothing serious, it'd be people willing to do it and on his downtime, but he works for a production company and makes short films himself. And is always looking for scripts himself, so I think he might take a look. Actually, speaking of which I owe him a script layout. Better get on that.
It's always fun to think about writing films, though they are a lot of work. How you think in writting one is so much different from any other form. Just because an idea might be good for film, doesn't mean it can be turned into one (easily, at least). Though what you get can be interesting as well; Adaptation was written by Charlie Kaufman, who was asked to write a screenplay for a non-fiction book called The Orchid Thief a book he didn't think he could adapt. So instead he wrote a script about how hard it was to write the script.
But that's way off topic. One of the good things about it is that it's really low budget. Aside of working a camera into the car, there aren't a lot of high concept considerations for filming. No effects, no big locations, just a small crew, actors and a camera.
I'll probably putter around with it, building it slowly. I have other things I need to be working on, and being a script won't get a lot of attention out the gate anyway.
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