×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

From idea>book>script>movie

From idea>book>script>movie

From idea>book>script>movie

(OP)
If you had a "Jurassic Park" idea but were not much of a "writer" to even get the process started, what would you do?  Find ($$$) a ghost writer?

RE: From idea>book>script>movie

I wouldn't worry too much about any perceived lack of talent - it doesn't seem to be a criterion for success these days!

RE: From idea>book>script>movie

Take a writing class.  This won't get you any closer to your goal, but it will expose you to the thousands of other people that have an idea and want to make a movie.  At this point your ego will have either been destroyed or inflated to epic proportions.  Assuming the latter, you will then have the power to do anything, including recruiting a writing partner.

-b

RE: From idea>book>script>movie

Narrate your ideas into an audio recorder.  At least then you will be able to capture your ideas, and upon playback you may inspire yourself to greater things, or edit yourself into something achievable.

Then you need to determine if you really want to go the book-->script–>movie route.  You may find it easier to go directly to a visual work, and publish a book later.  There’s much less compromise involved.

"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."
Steven K. Roberts, Technomad
Have you read FAQ731-376 to make the best use of Eng-Tips Forums?

RE: From idea>book>script>movie

Get your facts right.  I just picked up a 'police thriller" style book.  In the first chapter the police sniper selects Federal .308 Remington loads for the crisis at hand.  Federal and Remington both make .308 caliber loads, but it was Winchester who brought the .308 aka Nato 7.62 to market.  I haven't read the seconfd chapter yet.  Maybe a rant, but modern literature and movies are full of mistakes and hollywood stereotypes.

RE: From idea>book>script>movie


Shouldn't a police sniper be selecting .50 BMG loads?

RE: From idea>book>script>movie

No.  When the military and Winchester collaborated to shorten the 30-06 cartridge to fit into a "short action" rifle, they invented one of the most accurate cartridges.  Many sniper rifles are build around the .308 Winchester.  My point was that there are a lot of experts in a lot of fields, check your basic facts in a book or movie so ass we used to say, you pass the "dumb Major(military rank)" test.

RE: From idea>book>script>movie

Come on chaps!  Has anyone EVER read a magazine article, seen a TV documentary, or seen a film where their own knowledge/technology features and has not come away shaking your head?  It's not just Hollywood, it's all media.  Hollywood gets it wrong because "right" isn't sexy enough.  But what's the excuse of the popular science genre?

RE: From idea>book>script>movie

Exactly.  The Indy racing League just ran at Richmond VA and the local paper ran an article where a newpaper reporter, you know the guys that write for a living and run their articles past an editor took a ride in a special two seat car to get a feel for the track.  According to the printed article, the ride concluded when the driver hit the breaks to pull into the pit area.

RE: From idea>book>script>movie

I don't get it... they misspelled brakes?

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources