NSR - ManU Forum TV thread 2nd edition

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Aside from a quick snooze that was cruely disrupted by a mobile call, I am still waiting on a decent sleep. :(

[SirManchester]

Don't you have school or work?

[Teso Dos Bichos]

I usually have uni, but aside from today it hasn't quite happened over the last week or so. :( :D

[SirManchester]

in other words, you're slacking off

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Pretty much.

[SirManchester]

whats the matter? no motivation? that's my problem most of the time.

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Tiredness, no motivation and not enjoying it.

[SirManchester]

Same here, three years of college and I still haven't figured out what I wanna do.
Even though I've been majoring in film, I haven't been able to concentrate on it for several reasons; taking other requirements namely. While I should be in my third production class this semester, I haven't even take the intro class yet. Above that is work and a shtload of family issues. So when I'm told to read an ethnography in a week, write a research paper on mass media propaganda, and make about twenty drawings(for art class) by next week, I feel no motivation and I'm tired ontop of it all so it's harder to concentrate.

[Howard Zinn]

Same here, three years of college and I still haven't figured out what I wanna do.


Did you used to know what you wanted to do? I did, but I'm in second semester of second year of college and have very little idea what I want to do now. It seems like college has had a negative effect on my decision making.


Actually, now that I think about it I still know what I want to do, I just can't do it, so now I'm figuring out what I want to do that I can do.


Edit: So you want to be a Kubrick?

[SirManchester]

Yea I wanted to become a pro footballer in Europe, that was scratched when my family moved over here and since then I've been trying my best to come up with something else, but I doubt I'll ever find something that I'll be so passionate about as football.

It's difficult making it in the film industry, Kubrick or not, I'd have to go to a specialized film school and I just don't have the resources to do that.

[Howard Zinn]

Yea I wanted to become a pro footballer in Europe, that was scratched when my family moved over here and since then I've been trying my best to come up with something else, but I doubt I'll ever find something that I'll be so passionate about as football.

It's difficult making it in the film industry, Kubrick or not, I'd have to go to a specialized film school and I just don't have the resources to do that.


Maybe you should just sit down and right a kick-arse screenplay, then start shipping out to anyone that would take it. I really don't know anything about the film industry, but there have to be ways to get your foot in the door other than film school.

[SirManchester]

Maybe you should just sit down and right a kick-arse screenplay, then start shipping out to anyone that would take it. I really don't know anything about the film industry, but there have to be ways to get your foot in the door other than film school.

Only problem is I can't write a good screenplay for shit but Yea, that's pretty much how you get into it, write a screenplay and try to get funding for it and someone to produce it. Going to school isn't really going to do anything for you except teach you film techniques and such.

Eli Roth(the guy who directed "Hostel") wrote his first screenplay "Cabin Fever" and had to go around for nine years before he could get some kind of production. It's a tough industryindeed.

[Howard Zinn]

Only problem is I can't write a good screenplay for shit but Yea, that's pretty much how you get into it, write a screenplay and try to get funding for it and someone to produce it. Going to school isn't really going to do anything for you except teach you film techniques and such.

Eli Roth(the guy who directed "Hostel") wrote his first screenplay "Cabin Fever" and had to go around for nine years before he could get some kind of production. It's a tough industryindeed.


Well you're not going to with that attitude!!!

I think there are better examples than that guy that could probably have been mentioned. :p

Edit: And now that I think about it, if you don't want to write an original screenplay, why don't you just adapt a short novel or a short story or some such. Are there copyright laws against that?

[SirManchester]

I'm just being realistic, I don't wanna be one of those optimistic, chockfull of hope guys who think they'll make it and then they find out the world isn't the fantasy they have imagined.
Yea, there are copyright laws for pretty much anything, and it limits your freedom as a filmmaker, dozens of ideas of mine were shot down because of it but you just have to find ways around it. Kevin Smith for example played the songs he wanted to use in his movie through a car radio and cd player within the film.

[Howard Zinn]

I'm just being realistic, I don't wanna be one of those optimistic, chockfull of hope guys who think they'll make it and then they find out the world isn't the fantasy they have imagined.
Yea, there are copyright laws for pretty much anything, and it limits your freedom as a filmmaker, dozens of ideas of mine were shot down because of it but you just have to find ways around it. Kevin Smith for example played the songs he wanted to use in his movie through a car radio and cd player within the film.


You still have to have hope though.

What is the year limit on a copyright law? Maybe you could work with a really old story. Or do companies buy the rights of old works when they publish their editions?

[SirManchester]

You still have to have hope though.

What is the year limit on a copyright law? Maybe you could work with a really old story. Or do companies buy the rights of old works when they publish their editions?

I don't know, I'm not too informed on copyright law other than what I already told you. Regardless, it's not my aim at this time to even write one. I have tons of other shit to figure out.

and oh yea, ******** College!

[Howard Zinn]

I've got a stream of RBC TV from Moscow going.

[MtP07]

What are you watching from Moscow?

[Howard Zinn]

What are you watching from Moscow?


:confused:

RBC TV.

[MtP07]

What's that?