So this student film festival thing sounded fun, I signed up a team. I thought we had like 10-15 minutes to do a short. Then I find out that its 5 min max. I already wrote like half of it. What am I supposed to do. What the HELL can you do in 5 minutes. Doesn't that sort of take away the whole point of this? You can't do anything significant in 5 minutes.
Five minutes is plenty of time. Some of the best shorts I've ever seen were shorter than that. The thing with shorts is to cut out the crap. Don't do all the setting the scene or setting up the characters to any great degree. Strip it down to the basics. Like a single scene from a movie, rather than a movie in and of itself. Heck, I have a script online right now that could make for a five-minute short (it's actually just over five pages, but it could be tightened up).
Why is it that when I read this I thought it was either a thread about Nia Peoples or Mario Van Peebles. If there is ANYONE to take advice from on this issue, it is mrpaige!
So have my original 10-15 minute script with just the basic interaction and no meat on the bones? Or just chose one scene to really highlight the **** out of. Maybe I should just go completely experimental on this thing. Make it about a plant or something.
