Conversion of ideas to reality

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:03 am

How many of your concepts for films end up being made? I tend to experience periodic bursts of ideas, but they always come when I'm working on a project. I would estimate that I produce nearly all of the ideas I seriously develop into scripts, but I only develop one out of every eight or ten that comes to me.

Post by **audadvnc** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:35 pm

That's good. Weed out the stragglers before you commit to expensive film. At present I have one film in the word processor (to page 29), one pretty good one slowly basting in my skull, and a couple random ideas that haven't gotten any traction yet. Wish I had committed to using a word processor years ago - it's the screenwriter's best friend. I'm using Celtx; it does all the formatting and some automation - and it's free, an open source Firefox spinoff. I recommend it.

Post by **mattias** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:13 pm

i've written 20 shorts and 1 feature, and 5 shorts and 0 features have been produced. i obviously have several ideas every day, but if i only count those i write down or keep in my head for a while i'd say i'm also around 1 out of 10 that come as far as screenplays or treatments. most of the ideas i've had have worked their way into one of the finished scripts though, and the ones i have realised into films are the ones that contain the most of them. so you could say my writing is pretty much a funnel that ends up with a condensed version of my thoughts which is a film. ;-)

/matt

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:42 pm

"most of the ideas i've had have worked their way into one of the finished scripts though"

Same, but I recently had a great idea for another project in the middle of shooting my current short. I could have incorporated elements of it into this one if I had thought of it earlier, but it's too late now.

Post by **steve hyde** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:15 pm

Idea? -> Reality! (not my work) and OT, but a good idea that should not go unrepresented

http://www.bird-man.com/video/rocket_bird_inet.wmv

Post by **npcoombs** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:30 pm

I have a limited number of ideas, but I pursue those I have very intensely. I like to keep maybe 3 or 4 ideas going and keep adding, layering or changing as time passes, events or contexts change etc..

I don't write many ideas, if a concept is inetresting I will keep developing it right up until the last point and then pen the script. At that points its time to submit to a funding body.

Interesting to note that Jag Bara Undar would probably never have got funding in the Uk, as it does not represent locality, minorities or aim to socially engineer or provide obvious moral, liberal fable.