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You had mentioned a book Mr Stem..
In our one on one you mentioned a book about writers that fall in love with their work so they feel they have to 'put it in' the script. @David Stem I don't recall off the top of my head what book it was. I just cut about 4/5ths of my story/script writers act vi. for my movie. The work she did? gorgeous. Like you say in the MIB movie: sometimes you just have to write the words out. And THEN fashion it for the work that people see. Thanks. For giving me the reassurance that I've done the right thing. Sincerely, Jason PS It's looking like 150 or so shots plus that in the two battle sequences. 35 to 70 minute movie. or an average of 7 seconds per shot.
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Tagging @Tasha Kelly re our conversation about Bob.
Heads up - likely need to push today’s coaching call later.
Still on the road coming back from Santa Cruz. If there’s a place I can stop at 10 or 12 and do today’s call, I will but may need to push to 3 pm today!
Heads up - likely need to push today’s coaching  call later.
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Hey no problem be safe. I decided my energies go into storyboarding exclusively for the next 48. I'll have to catch the next. Hope you had a good trip!
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25 frames ready to shoot!
How to win friends and influence people. Read it?
ESO machinima actors wanted. Within TOS. Must be patient, punctual, able to use emotes, and have costume options. Serious inquiries only — whisper me. I'm telling THOUSANDS of people simultaneously within an MMORPG video game that. Time to build an army.
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I looked up TOS and it's naughty to say an employee's name in chat. (TOS) can ban you for anything they want. So I removed that and DIRECTLY apologized to Gina Bruno in my exclusive creator channel with Bethesda/Microsoft's game. Sometimes a mistake becomes a boon? Now she has a reason to 'look' at my work.
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I scored an antagonist for the movie. I spammed 1k people in the game at once with the message. He has a bachelors in video/tv production and experienced in both acting and wardrobe and is eager to be involved with the machinima. That's how it's done. The original headline is from the first and last self help book ever written, by Carnegie.
Great coaching sessions today and yesterday!
Thanks to all who showed up and are putting in the work to truly level up. I’m on my way to UC Santa Cruz to take my son on a college tour. Will post the sessions tonight! Meanwhile, what are your goals for the rest of the week?
Great coaching sessions today and yesterday!
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I'm going to pivot. I'm going to do the whole MAJOR storyboarding when I can get myself into the zone to do so yet I know it's going to be a 4 or 5 hour block so, depending on where I am mentally I'm giving myself latitude to do it when I'm locked in this week. By pivoting, I mean I'm also scheduling a one on one (podcast) with another Guild Master friend of mine who happens to be involved with my movie. Honestly I don't see us talking about the movie business necessarily. More of a gift to ourselves and the 100s we type to under our stewardship, within the video game in discord. Know thyself. Have a chill week David Stem. PS the below are some of the people in his server and mine. Numbers wise. (networked)
Condensing the Action
I've now read 3 other Forge members' scripts that i believe are really good at just getting to the point in their Action. I know there's more of you out here. My ask? How would you economize the following Action segment? -------------------------- She turns and sprints back towards the office. Jacob continues walking, his drink in hand, almost smiling as he walks past the now empty therapy rooms. At the elevator, he looks down an adjoining darkened hallway. The entrance is blocked by a cable attached to two stanchions. Jacob looks around then stealthily slips over the cable into the hallway. He’s the only person on the floor. It’s dark other than light coming from a frosted window on a door near the end. He slowly moves towards it. As he gets closer, the sound of faint voices is heard. Screaming voices.
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@Jason Byrley verb before noun. 'Try', you must. AKA the descriptive verb: 'coming from' before the noun 'dark'. That puts the very 'action' you're looking for upon the forefront of the descriptive sentence. Understand do you? Another example: "In a fiery explosion of flames, the comet crashed to the earth." versus the yawner: "A comet crashed to the earth...IN A FIERY EXPLOSION OF...yah we get it there was a comet and something happened, post nauseum.
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@David Stem Linguistics 400 grammar book written by Noam Chomsky, told me that that is a pronoun participle conjunction of an adverb and verb and then.......... then noun. But that class got boring so I went to video production school for 3 years. Point of information. Chomsky wrote a crappy text book compared to 'video communication', by David L. Smith.
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Hi, nice to meet you all. I average 25 hours/week using my video production skills and tools to create machinima. Real cinema in real'' virtual worlds

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