V-Log: I Want To Write A Scifi ‘Network’ For The Trump Era #Screenplay

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

As I sketch out this concept for a screenplay, I find it’s definitely strong enough to pursue. But it’s going to take time. Maybe a long time. A few months at least. But it’s fun to dwell on this particular scenario and run with it. Anyway, the below video goes on at length about this situation.

V-Log: #Screenplay I’m Mulling #Writing Would Be A Metaphor For The Trump Era

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

The more I think about it, the more I realize the screenplay concept I’m sketching out could be seen as something of a metaphor for the Trump Era. Kinda. Sorta. There definitely would be elements of a metaphor in it. There would be a huge amount of subtext about how screwed up the Trump Era is in it.

There really hasn’t been a major movie that talks about the Trump Era in a big way yet and maybe a lot of them are in the pipeline. I don’t know. But it’s fun to sketch out a story that talks about a lot of the issues that we’re all dwelling on these days.

Anyway, watch the below video. It’s interesting.

Trump Era Immigration & Political Dysfunction Are Themes Of This #Screenplay

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

So this I have this great concept for a scifi movie screenplay. I bounce around a lot creative — in large part because I don’t have a muse to tell me to shutup and write — so my interest in this concept could fade quite quickly, but for the time being this is what I’m interested in.

Anyway, watch the below video. It’s pretty interesting.

V-log: #Hollywood, #Writing A #Screenplay and General Meandering Mulling

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

In this video, I go into great length about the general movie screenplay concept I’m working on. I am waiting on buying a professional camera and for some reason the muse is active and I’m screwing around with a screenplay. Maybe nothing will come of it, but maybe it will. Anyway, I really encourage you to watch this one. It’s pretty good.

In it, I go into why I like screenwriting, why I think I would do well in Hollywood and the general concepts associated with the screenplay I’m interested in writing. There really hasn’t been a movie that deals specifically with the Trump era and this movie concept does just that. I’m going to throw everything but the kitchen sink at this story as part of fleshing it out.

I am musing about different weird things that could happen to our Hero. One of those weird things would be something like we learn he obsessed over a fashion It Girl like Alexa Chung and that comes back to haunt him. Or something. I like the idea of there being personal consequences to his actions as well. That’s going to be the subplot, at least, how all this affects our Hero on a personal level.

The thing I like about Hollywood is how important networking is. I also like how Hollywood is a town based on story telling. Though I find myself thinking I’m much more of New York City kinda guy, I admire how much of LA is obessed with writing screenplays.

Anyway, no one ever watches any of these videos I do, but this one is really good. It’s really interesting if you’re into telling stories. I am going to try to spend most of the day today fleshing out this screenplay concept, but I am known to say that and then just sleep the day away.

Of #Writing #Screenplays & America In The Age Of #Trump

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

There’s no way to tell the story I want to tell without talking about how Trump has changed America, so I’ve decided to make that the main theme of the story in the first place. But it’s going to be a while before I produce anything. I have to write a short story or novella first.

The #Screenplay I’m Dwelling On Would Be An Indictment of The Trump Era

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

This screenplay I’m thinking about writing would be a direct indictment of the surreal nature of the Trump Era. There have yet to be any movies produced that do that given the scenario of the movie’s concept, it’s difficult to tell this story without doing just that. But anyway, under more deft hands this story would be a Coen Brothers type of movie, but I’m not nearly that good a writer.

Yet More Dwelling About The #Screenplay I’m Thinking About #Writing

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

So, below video is me talking at length about the screenplay concept I’m dwelling on. It’s flowing pretty easy right now, so I’m going to try to capture the creative spark while it lasts as quickly as possible. I need to just shut up and write. But I have to psych myself up to do just that and as such, I do a lot of talking before I actually get around to writing anything. I’m not saying I’m that good a writer, but I can definitely come up with good concepts.

Some Themes & Subtext Of The #Screenplay Concept I’m Dwelling On

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

Now that I’ve established where the source of the conflict of this screenplay comes from — one man making some enormous decisions for all of humanity — the rest of the concept has begun to fall into place. My goal is to throw everything but the kitchen sink at this concept when it comes to things that are happening in the world right now.

One of the major themes of this concept, should I ever get around to writing it, would be how divided the United States is right now. One thing I’m worried about is if I pretty much just describe what I imagine what would really happen given the scenario I’ve come up with that it would be so surreal that the untended humor of it would drown out some serious issues.

But I’ve only begun to sketch things out. I haven’t really begun to write anything seriously. And I think what I’m going to do is write the story as a short story or a novella first then in a few months buy Final Draft and write the screenplay. Yet, I’ve kind of given myself some conditions. I’m not going to spend all that money on Final Draft unless the concept is strong enough to do it. Or, put another way, I’m not going to buy Final Draft unless I’ve proven to myself that I’m serious about writing a screenplay.

I Really Like The Culture Of #Screenwriting

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

Unlikely writing a novel, screenwriting is a collaborative process. As such the people who do it are much more like me. I love to talk and socialize and the screenwriting community seems like a lot of fun. It seems more my type of community than the novelist community. Screenwriting seems like people have a lot of passion for the subject and enjoy talking about it in a way I haven’t see with the novelist community.

I still have a novel I’m interested in writing, but the screenplay concept I have in my head seems to have picked up some creative steam lately. But, as I keep saying, the urgent need is for me to buy a professional digital camera. But that takes time, so working on a screenplay is something I can do while I wait.

So, I’m not saying anything will come of my sudden renewed interest in screenwriting, but the concept I’ve come up with leans itself to a cinematic representation, so I’m running with it as long and as far as I can. But I just don’t know. I don’t know how long this will last.

I really, really need to just save up the money for a camera and work towards that goal, but I’m in general a creatively restless person so I while I wait for the camera, I have to do something creative. Ideally, I will bounce back and forth between a novel and a screenplay. But we’ll see.

Even More Mulling Of A #Screenplay I May #Write

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

Writing a screenplay is a bucketlist kind of thing for me, but I’m going to wait until I’ve finished it as a short story or a novella before I buy Final Draft and start working on it seriously. I have a novel concept, too, I’m interested in writing, but really it’s buying a camera and being a professional photographer that I am really working towards. Everything else is just because I idly am creative without thinking about it.

Regardless, below is a meandering video of me talking about a screenplay I’m interested in writing. The screenplay’s high concept would be something like Contact meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets Stranger in a Strange Land meets The Last Star Fighter. Something like that. I really need to shut up and start writing, but daydreaming about doing it is so much fun.