Inneresting 86
issue 86
January 28th, 2021
Launching The Story Off the Page Yourself
Funding Your Own Shoot: Amy Clarke put together spreadsheets to use as a guide for what you need to budget your own film shoot. Offering a practical example, Joe McClean breaks down the budget and earnings from his first indie feature.
Shooting With What You Have: Looking for low-budget inspiration? Here’s 11 films shot on iPhones. Going into more detail, Sean Baker speaks about the technical and artistic choices behind shooting Tangerine with iPhones.
From Screen to Speaker: If a direct-to-screen production can’t work for you, have you considered audio drama? Shanee Edwards offers tips on converting a screenplay into a podcast script. Devon Ellington writes about adapting a stage play into a radio show.
Getting Social: Take inspiration from fan-fiction creators using social media to create alternate universe accounts or compressed dramatic scenes. Steve Morocco demonstrates how to format a short story as an Instagram story.
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Previously on Inneresting…
In case you missed it, in last issue’s most clicked link John and Craig talk with Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Ryan Reynolds about self-aware protagonists and fourth wall breaking in a special video episode of Scriptnotes.
Other Inneresting Things
From 2002, Thich Nhat Hanh presents the talk “Where Do We Go When We Die?”
Matthew Bischoff shares the six word phrase about solving problems he learned working at the Apple Store that stuck with him long after.
Step Aside, Mavis Beacon: Learn about the home row with David Lynch Teaches Typing.
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