I've had a little step outline hidden away for a while now. I find it best if I leave new ideas alone in a draw to germinate before having a go at them. I decided it was time for this one. I also decided to just cut loose with it. No planning, to just sit down and write, just for the hell of it. I know it's not what you're "supposed" to do, right? But techniques are all just tools, not rules, and I want to be a writer because it's something I enjoy doing, so every now and then I want to let rip and have some fun.
Anyhow, somehow I've ended up with a scene of an alien masturbating to some alien porn.
How does this just happen?I had my aliens on their ship and they were all in separate rooms, doing their thing and I wanted to characterize them. I suppose, looking back now I should have put them all in the same room and had them conflicting and reacting differently (but in character) to the same thing but I didn't. Shoot me. I blame this on EmilyBooth.
They showed a bunch of Emily Booth movies on Zone Horror this week and for my sins I watched a couple. Well actually the only one I watched all the way through was Jake West's Evil Aliens. Cradle of Fear and Pervirella I just skipped through and realised I wasn't missing much but a load of crap and few tit shots. Well in Evil Aliens there's a couple of Alien/Human sex scenes. It must've filtered through. The thing is I don't want to be writing some stupid crappy spoof movie. I want it to be funny but funny like CRANK or CRITTERS or PLANET TERROR. I mean a guys dick falls off and turns into a monster in that, but it doesn't come across as some cheap piece of crap. But I suppose that's in the production values. Like I have a grasshopper alien, but I want him to be a puppet and not some crappy Sci Fi channel TV movie CGI embarrassment. Sigh. I suppose we have no control over these things.
I watched a Sci Fi channel movie this week. DECOYS. Title had nothing to do with the story. Unless the boobs were the decoys. Distracting you from the alien appendages. The synopsis described the aliens as having chest tentacles which made me thing straight away chestacles, but sadly no one in the movie said that. Why do they make these Sci Fi channel movies? Is someone making money out of crappy movies that no one watches? It's like they just don't care or something. I don't think anyone is going to sit and watch them and enjoy them in 20 years the same way I sat and watched GHOULIES this week. Or even CHILLERS.
I recorded a bunch of horror movies from Zone Horror and skipped through to about 54 minutes in to see what they were like. If I didn't like the look I just deleted them. My girlfriend didn't understand why I kept CHILLERS which she thought looked the worst out of all of them but I put it on and she got hooked. Yes it was crappy, the story and script and effects sucked, but somehow I still enjoyed it, more than any of these Pterodactyl or Giant spider movies you get the Sci Fi or Horror channels making these days. I'd like to think I'm not just suffering from nostalgia.
PLANET TERROR I absolutely loved. It just reminded me of all those old horror movies from the 80s and yet its a new movie. What are they doing wrong these days? Remakes? No way, I prefer the remade TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and THE HILLS HAVE EYES to the originals. And FRIDAY THE 13TH was good too. It's not the big horror movies that suck, its these lower budget TV ones. The ones which are supposedly produced by people with genuine love of the genre's they're working with as opposed to studio executives who just want to make money.
Ah ignore me, it's early and there are men banging in the house.
I'm writing this one on Celtx as opposed to Scripped which I had been using but I just find to be bloody awful. It's annoying that I can't work out what my pages are but what the hell, I'm only writing it for shits and giggles anyhow. I'll just export it as a PDF and work off that for my rewrite, the one where I try and fix all the structure. Saying that though I have got plenty of stuff in my opening which I know I can use to pay off later. Little seeds planted in act one, to nurture in act two and have bloom in act three.
I pitched a comic idea a week or so ago to a friend for him to illustrate. The kind of thing we can shop around. I could use it to illustrate my writing and he could use to illustrate his...err...illustrations! He still hasn't gotten back to me about it yet. I did a little research on the ever reliable wikipedia to find that a similar idea called BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL exists. I decided to change mine from 1000 bad guys to 666 to make it different (vastly! ha ha) also, mine doesn't involve magic worms. I think it's pretty goo,although I would. It already has a lot of depth and quite a bit of mileage in it.
In swine flu news, if you break out in a rasher just rub on some oinkment.
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