So, I've been going through a rather liberating experience with my latest short film, "The Janitor", which I'm hoping to shoot on 35mm. I talked with a local film guru, and he was saying, the more writers I can bring on who are locally known, the better shot I have at getting funding.
Well, I ended up deciding to take a risk, so to speak, and wrote down the story I had in my head on paper, as a 4 page short story with no dialogue, and handed it off to another writer. I haven't seen the first draft yet, but already, I'm seriously considering doing this again, if not regularly, with all of my films, including my next feature.
The part of writing that I enjoy is the story itself, getting from point A to B to C. The areas that I have to struggle with, and get the most feedback on, are dialogue points, and matters of pacing. Story itself I have virtually no struggle with. I could flip out 20 good stories in a week, I'm sure of it. It's the technical aspect that I battle with. Don't get me wrong, I've always enjoyed it, but 9 times out of 10 my dialogue is either too wordy or too...whatever.
It's all a part of this process of letting go, of focusing on my strong points and releasing the areas I don't really want to tackle, anyway (and having a good pool of folks to pull from).
So, anyway, I'll be looking to do that more often. This is fun. :)
(I'm also hoping to do this with music -- I love scoring, but I'd really like someone knowledgeable to take my scribblings and synthesized pieces and bring it to an orchestra. Hopefully, that happens with "The Janitor" as well.)
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