Brain Poops

For your consideration: my Writer Shrine

Someone asked me in the most recent live chat how to go about writing a script. They asked what kind of software to use and for a tutorial.

I gave him a brief run-down in the chat, but I’d like to give a more elaborate explanation here.

Simply put: just write.

In a world full of plasticine technocrap, it isn’t hard to think that if you have the right program for the job the rest will come naturally.

Ha Ha.

Writing is one of the oldest forms of expression man has utilized, and it takes no more than something to write on and something to write with. Words written on toilet paper with a concoction of feces and soot is just as valid as writing carved into the side of a mountain in forty-foot letters¹. The meaning of the words should trump the medium it’s written on, not the other way around.

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Cinematography and staging tutorial using that medium of expression first established in the late Victorian Era: Cassette tape cases.

Video after the jump.
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