In my research about film script treatment, I discovered this website.
http://www.bmyers.com/public/807.cfm
It is an Automatic Movie Script Treatment Generator, though I have to say I find it woefully lacking in choices and concepts.
Here’s what I generated.
Comedy: A college student teams up with a hair dresser to start a new life.
As the story unfolds, the college student starts to discover the truth about with a pet pig.
By the finale, they manage to wreck 1 cars, prove their worth and win the respect of their classmates.
Think Dumb & Dumber meets Forest Gump.
Not quite what I was going for. Comedy… yes… well, the generated log line is comical, but I think that movie would suck.
Not sure if Bill Myers, the person who created the generator, did it to mock the narrow vision of what a Hollywood blockbuster contains, or if he really thinks that there are only 50 or so types of “sidekicks”.
Still, it’s kind of fun to use it, so I felt it was post-worthy.
Enjoy!
PS: Nobody steal my idea… I’m really attached to my main character discovering the truth about her pet pig…
PPS: Just want to add that this site generates more of a log-line than a treatment.
Chris Valenti is another friend/filmmaker of mine (also a great musician and comic) and he has some really great comedy movies online and I just wanted to turn you on to his blog.
In 2009 he vowed to do a short film each month and he succeeded and I think that by setting a goal that is both a stretch and something that he can track, he made a great choice, and he achieved his goal! YAY!
For anyone who is a fan of SNL… especially the classic Saturday Night Live shows from the 70’s and 80’s… this is a great series of videos from Funny or Die that have all the actors that ever played U.S. presidents, going back to Chevy Chase as Ford.
There is the main video, directed by Ron Howard, and then the other “outtake” videos. I especially like the “dream sequence” with Dana Carvey as Bush Sr.!
I <3 Dan Aykroyd!
Oh, and only non-SNL person they had was Jim Carrey play Reagan. (”Tag you’re it!”) HAHA!
Or maybe I just heard about it because, while not being guido (or guidette), I am from Jersey (and New York) and I am Italian.
But it seems to be making a lot of hooplah and I can see why…
Aside from it just being outrageous in its portrayal of Italians and New Jerseyites, MTV’s The Jersey Shore brings up a lot of social questions such as “Is it ok for a population to use derogatory terms, such as guido, in a positive way when it’s self-referential? Does it negate the negative connotation of the term eventually? Is it ok because they are proud they embody the characteristics the term suggests?”
Many people are comparing this to the conversation of African Americans using the N word.
So I should totally hate this show, right?
Um… well sometimes I do, but most of the time I find it quite fun to watch.
Sorry for not being all P.C., but if I laugh out loud a few times during a show, I will watch it again…
And, to be honest, I have seen girls and guys like these at the Jersey Shore when I hang out there in the summer.
And I don’t judge them. It’s just not my style. (And I give them credit, because a lot of them are in really great physical shape.)
But still can resist looking through a comedic lens. Or find others looking at things through a comedic lens…
So here is Bobby Bottleservice’s audition tape for next season at The Jersey Shore:
PS to Actors: Being on a reality TV show is NOT how to become an actor. (Unless you are Bobby Bottleservice.) Well, I have one friend that turned his stardom in reality TV into an ok career, but generally, you will always be known in the public as that guy on __________ (insert name of reality show here).
Better Homes and Gardens was trying to do a food decorating segment on NBC’s Today Show, but things got wacky when some Drunk Ewoks entered into the party…
Seriously, it’s pretty funny and then sort of awkward when the Ewok started hump Han Solo’s leg.
Yes, I said leg humping.
(Apparently, even Ewoks had crushes on Han Solo… *sigh*)
And then Darth Vader takes away the martini. Vader is such a party pooper!
Gotta love live TV…
This is the link to the story as well as the video clip:
This one is just Matt Stone and Lloyd Kaufman, taped in April 2006.
I love this one because he gets more into the business of it. Still funny, too.
“Just keep going. Forget about that. Just do something and keep doing something new…”
While Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park Studio) were shooting Team America, they were interviewed by Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Films for his (Lloyd’s) documentary/instructional film “Make Your Own Damn Movie”.
This is Part 1 in my blog article series for two reasons…
1. It was shot several years before the other videos I will be posting later this week.
2. Their attitude is pretty bleak. They were not having fun with working with marionettes and apparently they got screwed in their contract, and their probably exhausted from the shoot… so they are a bit down in these two videos.
Still, it’s good to be aware of the down side of things. If the folks at the top are being dicked over, how can you carve out the filmmaker lifestyle that you want, and still get paid the money you deserve for all the long hours and work you put in?
Not that they don’t have lots of money. But I’m thinking, “I want creative control (Trey has final cut on all movies he makes) and I want to get paid”. HOW? HOW? HOW?
If you figure it out please let me know.
(BTW, there was a first video to this series on YouTube but nothing really happens in the first one).
After waiting a long (albeit great) summer, South Park Studio is out with a new show tonight to kick off the 2nd part of Season 13!
It on Comedy Central TONIGHT at 10pm, my time (that’s the only important time because the world revolves around me…)
haha…
Just kidding…
(not really)
10pm Pacific / 9pm Central
PS: Episodes are posted HERE after they air, but the aliens won’t be on the posted episodes… So don’t forget to look for the alien during the broadcast… See website for details.
