Re: More Good Things
Well, if I'm going to have a bout of insomnia, at least this was a good reason for it (definitely not a good time for it, but...*shrug*)
A friend of mine who's recently gotten into film-making (can you call it that when it's all shot on digital video and there's no actual film involved? I don't know... Anyway...) said a few weeks ago that the next project he wants to do is a Western. With no dialogue. Just visual storytelling with some sound cues to help move it along.
When he said it, I thought, "Hmmmm...that could be kinda cool." A week later, I thought, "Okay...I've got a general concept that would work for this...." A couple of days ago, I started thinking about titles. Tonight, the title gelled in my head and I also found a great, significant name for the town where this fictional story is set. And discovered that I couldn't sleep because it was all rolling around in my head.
So, I wrote it. Just the bare bones of it...the action, the characters (which have no names because nobody has any dialogue, so the characters are 'the horseman', 'the marshal', 'the saloon girl', etc), and the few key visuals that I thought were necessary to tell the story. My version of it, double-spaced, came in just under 4 pages. I'm curious to see how long it ends up being when he goes through and puts it in 'proper' screenwriting format, along with all the extra notations about shot selections and camera movement and such. But I feel like it's a very do-able project (if we can just find locations for the exterior shots we need. I think I know of a location for the interior shots...but whether or not we can use them will wind up coming down to a question of how much money are we willing to sink into this, and how much do the people who own the various locations that I'm thinking of want for the use of their space...
But at least now I think I can sleep.