How to write a movie script. Writing of "The Eight Year Olds" and "I'm Not Even Human"

Hi there. Sup? Here's is ya boy, Blender Dumbass aka J.Y.Amihud. The filmmaker.

And while the movie The Eight Year Olds is yet not began making. I still want to talk about the structure of that thing. And not really about the places of turn points on the timeline of the story. But more like a mindset with which you can make any script better.

There is strong temptation to reflect everything you experience into a story beats of your stories. You went to bar, or been in school, or at work and saw a funny, or interesting situation and now you trying to make it's way into your story.

Stop it there. I suggest you look at the story you writing rather then the life you live in order to make it at least feel coherent. You can add your experiences here and there but be really careful with them.

The movie I'm Not Even Human written by me long time ago and already done as a short film started as a homage to AI Artificial Intelligence. I simply copied most of it for the first draft.  I remember playing it's soundtrack while being outside. The slow harmonic sound made me imagine weird things. Like a huge city block in the middle of sky slowly rotating. A story began to emerge. There should be hi tech. A fake kid in love with a girl. A robot character that is crazy. And a huge ship that makes our characters go to outer space. And similarly to AI a weird ending that makes you question everything.

In the same time I started working on few other projects. "Sinking In The Fire" which was later a base for a Call Night Moon music video. I'm still thinking about adopting this story into a real movie one day. The premise is so interesting. A religious little girl meets an alien. What will she believe next?
There was also "The Good Man" that's a working title. It's simply a small drama film about a lost boy being picked up by a family. Which he becomes a best friend. But in a futuristic setting. Where a bunch of interesting stuff can happen. 
There was "The Half Heart" a story about magical ( alien ) artifact that gives people superpowers in what they already have talent. It's shaped like a heart. But ones it's been broken to 2 peaces. And one part belongs to a guitarist girl. And the other peace to a street driver. This is basically an excuse for them doing there thing without me complying to the laws of physics. Like lets say he could drive on walls. And she could play so fast that it's impossible to spot her fingers. Or something.
Also there was "Wrong Hate" about future and robots. And stuff.

And there also was a scary film. Horror film set in our time. At first it would be revolving around a group of teens. Because those I had as potential actors. They find an underground entrance of some kind where they get attacked by a monster that get's bigger the more he eats. He eats on the kids and becomes big. Another and turns into a worm like huge thing that breaks the ground and gets out. Eats another and becomes a huge worm like in the Dune. Then our main characters say that they love each other and the monster eats them too. The end.

I thought it would be sad enough to make people cry or something. And simple enough ( I had Blender back there already ) 

But the script was really hard to make. I was coming back to the start thinking that it's just not scary enough. I was looking back at movies like The Clock Work Orange or Psycho and how breaking barriers they were. How shocking it was back there. And what is shocking? I though to myself. Another flick where teens are dying one by one? There are plenty of those. Another body horror. There are plenty of those. What would be the most terrifying what would be so scary that I myself could not watch the film?

Kids. Right little kids about 8 year old dying. From I don't know. There parent got crazy or some guy is walking around a killing them. I wrote one scene. Where a man killed his daughter with a knife after telling her "Happy Birthday" exactly as she turned 8. And showed it to one of the teachers in school. She read it and a disgust mixed with fear and shock appeared on her face. I thought YES. HERE IT IS. The concept. By there is more to be done. There are characters to write. It can't be just another stupid slasher. So I began slowly developing it in the back of head while working on the other stuff.

The was making of I'm Not Even Human. And I made the boy real but fake from the perspective of society and something struck me. Respect children. Kids are cool as hell sometimes. Like in Goonies, Kick Ass or Logan. Kids that are bad ass makes this movie so much cooler. And I though okay. Then how about a kid character that investigates murders of children?

Gal emerged from this thought. I needed a realistic way to make him access all kinds of stuff. So why not make a weirdo hacker guy help him. And make his father heavily dislike him. And the father should be a police man that can't be a police man at least now. Why? He is a witness. Or a suspect. His daughter, Gal's sister. Also dead. Also at age 8. They all now have motivation. The movie can be written. And they do their researches parallel to each other. Because Gal's father Ephraim dislikes the hacker guy who helps Gal. 

Now the process of writing it kicked in. And shortly after few scenes I realized. I can't write a movie field with characters and develop a world full enough with mysteries, clues, maps and all the other detective things. 

So began developing a software to help me with it. After few month and one experimental movie I had Blender-Organizer. In which I could plan my stories. Outline when what's happening. And focus on characters. 

By that time I learned that TENSION is one of the most important things in the cinema. If there is no tension your film is boring. You have to make things be really bad. They running out of time, they might find something they don't like, something bad is about to happen. 

Pulp Fiction opens with...

YOUNG MAN

No, forget it, it's too risky. I'm 

through doin' that shit.



YOUNG WOMAN



You always say that, the same thing 

too dangerous.

every time: never again, I'm through, 

 The tension is established right away. Something dangerous is about to happen.

And the tension is kept as movie progresses by all kinds of things. He goes with her to the dinner. But she is bosses wife. What if he screws up? What if something will happen between them? And so on...

So I thought why not doing the same thing? Why not keep a reasonable amount of tension & mystery at all times.

My movie starts with "You gonna die from a heart attack". Then we introduces to a new policeman that probably had proper training. And is ready to work. And the other policeman says how he is not ready to what they are working on. It's slowly escalating toward real chase after time. And killer wins and wins. But there is always just handful more chance then the last time. So you believe that something could be done. And the ending comes. But the tension doesn't. You kept in the tension as the credits role.  I'm not going to spoil it just yet. But I will eventually when the movie comes out break down the entire script.

Meanwhile you can enjoy it's first five minutes in a previsualization stage in this video below.

My Plan for "The 8 Year Olds" the movie

Every body doing anything remotely complicated, I think, should have at least a rough estimation of an idea of what to do. If you make a movie. You don't just peek a camera and tell the actors , say this line, or that line. And then hopefully it will be assembled into a coherent narrative. I'm not saying that it's impossible to make it this way. I just simply thing having a script at least will help you a lot. Tho even some big Hollywood movies do not really rely on scripts but rather on storyboards or pre-visualization. But that's besides the point. YOU NEED TO HAVE A PLAN.

If you somewhat familiar with Blender-Dumbass or J.Y.Amihud you maybe know about a project I like to call "The 8 Year Olds". The next movie that will be made by me. 

Tho it's really possible to make a movie. You have to have a particular set of skills. And I'm not talking about directing or writing skills. I proven myself having those long ago. If you don't believe me you can see my earlier films.

I'm Not Even Human:

The Package, The Car & The Time Is Running Out:

But as you maybe realized there is a problem. Those 2 films are extremely small. Yes, one of them is whopping 32 minutes long animation project made by 1.2 people. ( my brother helped me set the renders and in one point with a camera ).  Like how cool is that? This is not a successful movie tho.

By the time of the writing of this article the movie had only 1847 views in total after a year and 2 month of being released. Let's compare it to "Following" a small feature shot on 8 mm film by Christopher Nolan. Before he became a real movie director. According to Box Office Mojo it's made 3668$ in the opening weekend. Let's do some math. Average movie ticket cost in 1999 when the film was released was roughly 5$ which makes it about 734 people on the first weekend only.
At the first week of my film it was only about 150 people based on the YouTube analytics. Tho decrease this by some arbitrary number. Considering I did not charge 5$ from every body who saw the film. YouTube is free to watch tho nobody still watches it.
Of course there is an argument to the other side. In cinema you have a handful of movies to actually go to. In YouTube you have millions of videos at your disposal at any given time. And if you are getting to work and you have 10 minutes to see a video. You will not click on a thumbnail that says 32 minutes in it's corner.

I'm trying to argue that even tho I made an released a film. Nobody from the studios gonna really much care. Because it looks unimpressive. Every little channel can get a 1000 views. And my Blender Dumbass even not getting it for the most part.  I'm not a good investment.

It's not going to stop me tho. A lot of great films were made because a person is good at selling his stuff. Good pitch is what I need. And all I have is a phone and the email.

PLAN A: Try my best selling it to a studio.

There are countless studios in the world. And many of them actually situated in Israel (where I live). I have the script and I have the first 5 minutes of the film in a storyboard form. 

So it's not hard to present the project.

This is the list of the studios I want to call by Monday:

2 TEAM PRODUCTIONS (tried)
FILMOTRONIC
JULY-AUGUST
ZOA FILMS
GUMFILMS
MULLA PRODUCTIONS
HIGHLIGHT FILMS
CHAOS FILMS
GREEN PRODUCTION

I think I just run out of the list in the google maps. There were few more but not doing features. They like specialize on Adds ad VFX more.

So I tried 2 team productions already. And it seems like they just simply tried to get away from me. They told me to send a short version of the pitch to the email. And did not answer since March. I'll call them again maybe. But not sure.

If some of the productions will green - light the movie and the production will start happening I will hopefully will do a blog or vlog from the movie set. 

PLAN B: If the studios will be dicks.

If such a thing happens and Studios are dicks. I will need to think differently. I will need to raise some money somehow through donations, patreon & other crowdfunding sites. Make an extensive crazy waist on advertising all of it. I can eat twice less if necessary. Try to get people who are good but not big names to act. Try to convince them to do it for free. This will mean to rent or buy my own equipment. Getting a decent 4k camera, or cameras. I'll probably will need to move between houses very often. Because renting a house and making it a set will be easier then building a set. And I need few different buildings. 
This will need a complete movie plan. Complete storyboard of the entire thing. With plans of where and how to shoot everything so detailed that I would not waist a single cent on time. If I rent equipment it's crucial. If I pay per hour to an actor it's crucial.  I know most of those things will be done even if studios will green light it. But this time it's gonna on much tighter budget. With much less wondering about. 

Hope this is not gonna happen. And studios WILL find me interesting. But only the time will show.

Making a closed alternative internet system

Hey it's yo boy Blender Dumbass here typing loudly on a keyboard. And think what I like to do that's not Blender Related... Of course you don't know. What is wrong with me. I'm not that famous. Just 578 so people pressed the subscribe button.

Sorry for the mind bleeding. But this blog is exactly for this kind a shit. Twitter just don't have enough characters.

THINK ABOUT IT. MAKING AN ALTERNATIVE INTERNET SYSTEM.

You know the Internet of today with it's WWWs and dot COMs. And the HTTPs and HTTPSs. Every our Internet browser can read those sites. Even some can read more then that. Like TOR can also access a weirder then HTTPS algorithm called ONION. But TOR can still do the basic browsing. And even tho ONION is non-readable by lets say a normal out of the box Chrome. It's nothing but encrypted HTTP.

What I mean by it? Internet. The text you read. The page. The fonts, the images. It's all carried through the cables and satellites using a STANDARD coding. Standard way to communicate what words are italic or bold. What BIG and what small. And where to put images. Where to draw a box, a button, a video.   All of it is sent through a cable from a server to your computer. And the browser reads those instructions to draw what you see on the screen. 

Somebody developed the HTML code to format a page. Somebody developed the HTTP protocol to send the page. Somebody developed the Java Script to do all the fancy stuff like YouTube's video play window. 

But what if I did my own version of all of it?  What if I just took a server computer and wrote an alternative program. Alternative sending algorithm. Make it such a conventional browser could not read the site. Such as Google wouldn't know about it. Such is for normal people this site would not exist. But for me. With a special built browser. I could use it. Only me. Or few of selected friends. And I could do what ever I want with it. 

I can restrict for example the sites look to just simple texts and buttons. Or maybe allow multiple windows of tools.  Or make it completely differently. Maybe the entire designs would be in 3D build for VR.

I could do that theoretically at home. I did something like this with my Blender-Organizer. When you launch the UPDATE window. Organizer is downloading from the git repository a special file called update_info.data
This file contains the information of what files been altered in what version.

The last line in every version is giving the organizer the information of where to get the update information file.

Here is one. And then the organizer parses the text in the file and loads it to the screen almost like web page. But without the large HTML or JAVA SCRIPT nonsense. This format was developed strictly for one use only. And it's good for this use.

BUT WHAT DO I DO WITH MY OWN ALTERNATIVE ALGORITHM?

I know one use. 

If you own an algorithm you can an un-doable and restrict people. Make it so every page is encrypted with your private key or something. And nobody can make a site without this key. PROFITS. 

But how do sells such a thing when there is HTTP and shit already?


GOOD QUESTION. I introduces you to a world of Jewish "Doisim". This group of people so much afraid of the conventional internet that they have they own phone manufacturing companies. That make phones that ONLY CALL. No sms, no internet, no even camera and files.

The reasons are that they save on purity of the what ever I don't get it enough to explain.

But basically every image of a girl is PORN. And should be avoided. So basically Facebook for them equals to Pornhub. And SMS to dating sites. Because they found that you less shy when you type text rather then talking live with sound.

They did tho developed a system that makes them access internet. It's called Internet Rimon. And it's like a traffic censoring extension. Think about Addblock. But instead it's Pornblock. But every little thing basically is a porn. Like Blender.org will not even run. It has images there of people.

So you guessed it. It's deep. 

What I can do with an alternative system. Is make sites system and software. Completely disconnected from THE INTERNET but act similarly. And the RABBIS will have power of approval of the content. Making it the most "COSHER" platform to use.

What you think. Give me some thoughts about it in the description. 

WHY TEXT THINGY?

What is the reason? Why am I writing the texts. Why am I trying to bore to death by reading things instead of just making a video on my YouTube channel? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME OMG?

The answer is quite simple. I'm not only a video maker. 

    When I was a kid. Okay, let's move to a third person just for the sake of making it emotionally signifying to read.

    So there was a child as young as he is trying to understand the world around him as much as he can. Curious about everything and anything like all other kids. 

    Was it four or five years spend wondering around thinking to him self. Who am I? How do I live? What's that peace of budah? And then his father took him and his brother to a ride. 


    It's dark outside of the car. Is it raining or skies are slowly crying? Drop by drop falling down. Not creating the unified sound of the rain he was familiar with. Hmmm... It's interesting thought the child. Rain is slow tonight. 

    They arrived. A place in the middle of night. A kitchen. But not a regular one. Huge. Bigger then the one at home. Lot of rooms. Closed rooms. Sound of people. Other children, much bigger then him.

    "Come with me." Says father. And takes the hand of the child. Walking toward one of the closed room. The sound of the children is getting stronger. Stronger with every step. "They behind that door" thought to him self the child. And to his amusement when the father opened the door he discovered that he was right. Many kids. 12, 13 year olds. BIG GUYS. Sitting there in front of small TVs and pressing buttons on a thing below it. "This is a computer" says father. He takes the child gently and puts on a chair in front of one of those TVs. A program boots in. "This is a mouse" says father pointing on a weirdly shaped thing beside all of those buttons. "Try move it". The child takes this "Mouse" in his hand. Moves it on a table. And a little arrow on the TV moves accordingly. 

    "Now try moving while pressing the button on the mouse"

    The child does exactly as father said. And to his amusement a line appears. Would he move the mouse in the circle. A circle would appear. Would he try to trace a face. A face would appear. 

    Soon they gone away from this magical machine. But the child kept wondering what else can this machine do? What else can HE do?

    And so few years passed. Concepts like. Video Games, Movies, Drawing, Painting, Photographs, Stories both told and shown. Both written and performed. Appeared in his mind. And there he is crying in his bed. In the middle of night. Without possibility to make all of those things for him self. And in the end. He wipes his tears. And imagines a future. There it is. HE WILL DO IT. HE WILL NOT JUST USE STUFF OTHER CREATED. HE WILL DO THINGS HIMSELF.

    And the BLENDER DUMBASS was born.

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