ON BREAK STOP. READING CALVIN AND HOBBES STOP. FOLLOW SUIT STOP.

cameronr:

Ugh, who would be so deluded as to believe that. I like to think of good advertising as branded sketch comedy.

This motherfucker just told you sketch comedy isn’t an art. Fetch John Cleese.

If you can watch the Saturn ad, the VW ad, the Monster ad, the IKEA ad, and the Bravia ad and say with a straight face that there’s no art to be found there, you’re either misguided or crazy. The directors working on cutting-edge TV ads are among the best in the industry. Beyond that, Bus Station continues to be the best thirty seconds my life’s ever had. Last year my roommate and I would watch it eighteen times in a row.

Anybody wondering if advertising is a legitimate form of creative art: Don’t.

Today’s final teeny bit of work: Designing a template for school assignments. Advantages: Easier to find in printer stack, perpetuates myths of personal responsibility, jerks me off for doing wha I probably ought to be focusing on.

Anytime I’m not writing journal posts, it’s a sign that I’m getting to do cool shit. Here was part of my sketchpad for brainstorming a new short film that I’m hoping will be major kinds of awesome. It’s a romance, too, and not a very heady one, so with luck it’ll actually interest normal people and not just art majors.

The working title is “Sh”, which is a title I’m very happy with.

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One of the first grades I’ve ever cared about. This is from a course on writing for film; the teacher’s hilarious and brilliant and she doesn’t let us get away with crap. I’ve never really attempted screenwriting before. Like any other type of writing, it’s got an entirely different set of rules and procedure than anything else. You can be brilliant at one thing and suck as at everything else. I would like very much to be brilliant at everything.

That’s not to say that an A here means I’m a pro, but it’s a hard-earned A for a difficult script. My initial film proposal earned a C: I had an idea for a surrealist romantic drama, but wasn’t entirely certain how to make it into a working, engaging script. My follow-up outlines and drafts slowly progressed upward; this is the first time I hit A-level.

I’m happy for it because I got it without getting rid of anything in my script: It still has bizarre sets and strange, surreal conversations and when you read it it’s extremely obvious that it’s something I wrote, which is good. But without removing any integral part of the script it’s tightening and turning into something that’s a legitimately compelling plot.

I have a Kindle, but still thought it was worth purchasing the Classics app for iPhone. I still recommend it. For three dollars you get twenty-three books, with more added monthly. When I bought this it only had nine and it was a bargain then too.