The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand.
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The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser.
The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn't have my script finished until a few days before we began filming. We edited it very quickly and now it's up online. It was great to conceive an idea and have it premiere just a few weeks later, compared to a feature, which takes a year or more.
The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.
Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
I think I've succeeded more by learning what needed to be done next and getting help in getting it done. I was just very focused and impatient.
The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.
For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.
The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.
I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.
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