What do you guys write?

my first two short films were (1) comedy and (2) drama about suicide.

My next two short films were (1) a Stephen King adaptation (dollar baby) and (2) a horror film based on one of my old short stories.

My completed screenplays are
1. A gothic horror story
2. A football action flick
3. A drama based around teen violence

I am currently working on a suspense thriller.

So I guess I don't stick to any one genre.

How did the S.K. short turn out for you?

We are shooting the final scenes monday night.

I had a local band recently record an original song for the movie and I will be working on the sound and foley as soon as we get the last scenes shot.

It looks pretty nice so far, in my humble opinion. We are also going to make a music video for the band with clips from the movie and live concert footage intercut in it.

I write psychological horror with supernatural and religious themes.
I also write spoofs.

I've pecked at all sorts of things (or combinations of). Horror, western, sci-fi, war, action, drama, biography...

The only thing I haven't really taken a good shot at is comedy. Because frankly, I'm not really all that funny.

I am in the process of writing a trilogy of crime flicks. I also have a couple of story ideas for some historical films.

Plus, there is a short story a friend wrote in college I really want to adapt (dark comedy in a way).

I happen to be a big fan of crime films so that's what I concentrate on though.

free verse, i hate calling it poetry, short stories, recently started writing a play and two screenplays cause my attention span won't allow for a novel, guess they're all in the genre of dramas about pain and suffering...

I read a "poem" in a writing mag this month called 'The Sucubus'. I hope that's right! It was the best thing I've read in a long time like that.

I've been TRYING to write westerns because, in my opinion, the genre is just totally barren. What of quality's been made since the sixties? And what of that made in and before the sixties wasn't either milquetoast and bland or (in the case of Spaghetti) obnoxious in-your-face overkill? Leone found what I think is a pefect balance. But he's dead.

- edited for sloppy wording. Didn't help much, did it?

Unforgiven, Dances with Wolves, Outlaw Josey Wales, Little Big Man. Gotta love Blazing Saddles - you know it's a popular genre when a spoof this good is made from it.

Wild Bunch, Shane, Searchers, Stagecoach, Man who Shot Liberty Valence, Treasure of Sierra Madre.

There are a lot of good westerns out there. Sure, none have been made lately but it is far from baren. And I don't consider the ones pre-60s to be bland and obnoxious. There are quite a few good ones.

link? i'd love to read it and see, as would we all i think...

Why does it seem like every short student film I've ever seen is about suicide? I helped project for this Wednesday night screening series at Columbia College, screening student films...and they were all HORRIBLE and ridiculously melodramatic...and for some reason they are usually about suicide. It's pathetic.

I have to go back and get the authors name from that mag. It is this months so it'll be there. I'm sure it's on the net so as soon as I find it I'll link it!

SOuthern Belle isn't that a sign of the times? Aren't most youths these days all depressed and angst filled, pill popping, masochists?

Not sure if this was aimed at my earlier post about the films I have done, but I'll give my opinion anyway.

I don't consider a short film about suicide to be pathetic any more than I would consider a Shakespeare tragedy to be pathetic. Suicide is a pretty important topic in my opinion. I am sure that many filmmakers don't carry it out right, it is a tragedy and should be treated serious, and not just be a showcase for the melodramatic.

And in responce to Floydian Trip, I don't think that acuratlly describes everyone who makes shorts about suicide. I am not angst filled, I don't pop pills and I am not a masochist. I do admit to being a person who suffers from mild depression though.

I got the idea for my suicide film (entitled Happy Holidays) when I was shopping at Wal Mart. I saw happy people everywhere and at the time was single (which is pretty shitty during the Holidays). I saw an old man sitting alone on a bench in Wal Mart. He looked sad, completely alone and ignored by everyone. My first thought was "what if that is me in 30 years?" I came home and wrote the screenplay for the short. It involves a man shopping at Wal Mart during Christmas, seeing all the happy people and then going home to kill himself.

I shot the short a year later, during the Christmas season, and got permission to shoot inside Wal Mart. It is a completely silent film with only Christmas music playing over the tracks. I guess, it is the thought that Holiday Depression is a pretty tough thing for people who are alone and it is kind of a message film about that type of depression.

A final note, at the end of my film, the gun jams and he lives. Cut to a title card with the definition of Holiday Depression and a more upbeat Christmas song.

I guess, I went on here because I think it is unfair to judge a student filmmaker based solely on the type of film they are making without knowing why they made this type of film.

I just felt the need to get this off my chest.

I write scripts for PBS on-air fundraising.

If it matters at all...

Hey Dogs that wasn't meant as a slight to pill popping. I was on anti-depressants for years after getting almost 60 Electro-Convulsive Therapy treatments. I'm pretty sure I'm alot more screwed up now than when I started but at least I'm not depressed anymore. I don't take meds anymore either. I look back at is as a pretty wacked out life experience of which the insights and perspectives I have on certain things now may come in handy at some point. If nothing else if I watch a movie or something about suicide or depression it has a helluva lot more meaning to me now than it did before.

Crap. I write crap. And poetry which is also crap.

Im sure they're not as crap as you think they are. Have you let anyone else read them?

me i write mostly horrors and thrillers but have also dabbled in comedy and drama.

This sounds like a very good idea for a comic. Personally I don't think you need a lot of technical details to pull this off. After all, people want the story right? As long as things make a little bit of sense and the story and animation are good you should do just fine. Of course, this is coming from someone who doesn't read/watch much sci-fi so what do I know. But it just seems that the scientific details shouldn't be the main theme. If worse comes to worse you can always call it fantasy.