With all these new High Tech Computers… Is it safe to say “Who needs a Studio to Produce my Screenplay (Animated Feature), cos I can just Produce it on my Computer at Home”?

I am in better Financial shoes than many (I.E. I have a Bed, a place to work & food),

But My Animation Skills are Amature, so my interest in going with a Professional Studio is not the Money…, rather it is gaining access to the Professional Digital Animators & Set Designers Etc. to get my Screenplay Produced the way I Envisioned it.

But heck, if they are going to be limited with the time they can work with me to get my Project Completed, I might be better off taking Adobe Illustrator Classes & just do it myself! LOL!

What about Distribution? We’re in the year 2010 Now!? LOL! Not 1978!

So what about iTunes? How much $$$ per Month do they charge for Vending Space?

Some of the Theatres I have been to lately are run down & discusting! The Popcorn I bought Tasted like 409 All Purpose Cleaner! Point Being: No matter how good a Movie is… If you have to view it in a Discusting Environment, it will not be a Pleasent Experience! LOL!

So is iTunes a Distribution Miracle or Will Profits be Lost by not Having the Film in Theatres?

Do you know of any Art Grants I can apply for to Purchase Production Equiptment?
(To Produce the Screenplay myself?)

I am a Single Guy, so I want to participate in the Business to meet Women… & by Producing my Screenplay myself is kind of Anti-Social, but at the same time there is so much Riff-Raff (People who are only after Money & not quality Art) that a lot of the time I concluded doing things myself at Home, away from the Rat Race is the better way to go! LOL! But then I don’t meet anyone! LOL!

Anyways…

Let me know your thoughts at your convienience.

Aloha
Antonio Gimbernat
AKA: Uncle Stoney or Stoney the Sailor

I think your blog is a cool forum and resource for would-be writers. My reasons for blogging are more selfish, I see it as a creative release, a practice in daily writing, regardless of inspiration – and I have an audience too, so the pressure is on. Now it’s time to add the screenwriting element to the mix…

Assuming your comment isn’t just spam (had to approve it from the spam queue)…

How do I find the time? LOL.

JUST DO IT. These posts 9 times out of 10 just SPEW out of me. 20 to 30 minutes to write it, proofread it, publish it.

I will admit however, that a lot of thought goes INTO the post prior to ever actually writing it but even that time spent comes in small snippets of time thus, allowing me enough time to actually WRITE.

Welcome.

Unk

Check me out http://brokeisthenewme.com/about/

I’m not American not either British. I ask for excuse for my possible grammatical mistakes.
But I felt in love with American culture-music and cinema- specially the time of big cinema and you know what I mean….just today I discover this webpage. It’s nice and valuable for many of you. Well…I wrote some screenplays too, especially comedy, of course I must be ¨compatible¨ with the market of today. If it was all up too me I will direct, or play with some image, portrait I have in my mind… only a Kafka’s work, which I think nobody will get interest in, because may…¨it’s too difficult to think¨- for majority . Anyway… I have do still some arrangement on the script and the probably I have to send it 400 times or else 402 -and then…and them maybe somebody will judge my effort. I keep on read yours conversations and if you don’t mind I let you know…..

I will never forget it.

Like I said… I’ve been having managers call me out of the blue and while my gut always tells me to be skeptical, I have to admit that most of these managers seemed a hell of a lot more WANTING to work with me than an agent ever has.

I am especially glad it’s working out for you…

Unk

I sent out to the biggest and the smallest.

I spent a lot of time honing the query. The perfect subject line. Then the perfect hook to get them interested in the concept. Just enough info to have them wanting more. I had dozens of people I trust comment on if the letter made them interested.

Then I sent it. Ten to fifteen a day over a month, to gauge if the letter created interest over the days and if not to tweak it. But each day that passed had my inbox recieveing responses.

At the end of the campaign, and sending 400 emails, I had 23 requests by the person I sent the emails to, asking for the script.

That sure felt like success to me. More responses than any other try. And I even had responses from companies that had the UNSOLICITED card up on their contact areas.

So I sent out the scripts and waited. Some got back quickly, some took their time, after a moneth after sending a script off to someone, I would check in.

All but 2 people got back to me, with either a pass or asking what else I had.

When it all came down to it, I had 2 managers/companies with significant interest in the script and me.

But one was more serious than the other, and their name was one I recognized as a name in the industry.

The dev exec was the one I pitched. She read it and got back to me in 2 days asking what else I had. I sent another script and she got back to me in 2 more days. She said she was passing my stuff on to a manager. 4 days later that manager got back to me and said he thought this script I pitched could be a great one for the studios.

We got involved and along with some great story people in the company, providing notes I could understand and working with me and my ideas and my story, we worked out a rewrite that really got the script to that next level.

So I now have a manager that believes in my writing, a great spec script being shopped around, and two new high concept ideas I am in the process of outlining.

And all because I took a chance and sent out some carefully worded emails for a script I believed in.

And I can tell you that it feels amazing to have someone on my side who is there to do all they can to help me write the best scripts possible.