Open Film Making

Legal Plagiarism

2011-01-16T03:03:00.000-08:00

So I've been suffering from creative block as of late. I wanted to work on a project that would only rely on a few people. The less people, the easier it will be to do. I found this great play on incompetech.com that was licensed as Creative Commons called "A Crime for Passion." I read through it and it seemed like a fairly good script. I realized that by this being a free and open script, I am more than welcome to rewrite the script as I see fit.

I'm rewriting this script from a stage play to a film script. I'm changing a few of the elements and things that I didn't like about the other script. I making the characters younger and a little more serious. I think that make it a little more believable.

As soon as the rewrite is done, I'll be posting it up on Google Doc, plus links to the PDF and OpenDocument file. In the meantime, you can check out the original here.

This shit is for real...

2011-01-02T11:45:00.001-08:00

This is just a test. Do not take this seriously. :D

HTML5 Test

2010-12-20T12:55:00.001-08:00

Lightworks new Open Source NLE

2010-12-07T05:45:00.000-08:00

The new Lightworks video editor beta is out for Windows. Not sure how long until it's available for Linux, but it is out. This is a very professional editor. I still love Kdenlive, but this editor might be very useful for major productions on Linux in the future.

Posting a script publicly

2010-03-28T19:53:00.000-07:00

I found that any text I write in Gedit can be posted on Google Docs. So here is my first unfinished mini script "Ice Cream". I hope this works better, plus it's updated when I edit the script.

It's learning time

2010-03-28T19:46:00.000-07:00

This is my new blog to chronicle my adventure into writing for film. I've always wanted to be a film maker, but writing has never been my strong point. So now I'm on a quest to learn all I can about screen writing and attempt to put an open source twist on the material.

Writing Tools:
I've gone over this problem several times. CelTx is designed from the ground up for script writing, but for some reason feels rather limiting. I don't plan on giving up on CelTx, but I think that Gedit might be a better suited tool for me. I'm also fond of Gedit because the final files can be read in a standard web browser.

The Editing Software
For Open Film Making there are quite a few applications that will make Open Source film making possible. The first ( other than the script software ) is the Non-Liner Video Editor. There are several possible contenders but as of writing the most stable and robust is Kdenlive. Kdenlive is an editor but it also has some basic compositing tools built in. The compositing tools however are lacking. Some compositing alternatives include Cinecutie and Blender.

Open Shot and Pitivi have some potental, especially Open Shot. Open Shot has a much better compositor than Kdenlive, but Open Shot is missing a lot of very important features that we need for movie making.

The Theater/Forum
The first and probably most popular open forum on the Internet for videos and films is probably YouTube. YouTube really needs little introduction. However YouTube alone would not be in the spirit of Open Source. So the inclusion of Archive.org and Blip.tv are a must. Both sites my not be as well known as YouTube, but both sites allow free formats to be hosted.

So here we have it. My first foray into writing and I'm going to do it publicly.