Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Progress (writing a christian film that isn't...)

My writing was going very well for a while then slowed to well standstill.  I'd say that content wise I have 75% of my script done.  Right now it's super unorganized and to anyone else but me it would look like a 6th grade media arts project gone wrong.  I am learning as I go.  I can't stress that enough.  I'm hoping to get my hands on some screen writing software to give my script a glimmer of credibility and structure.  So that's my progress...

Question.

Does a christian film have to be family friendly?  That's what I keep thinking about lately.  Not that my little project is NC17 or anything, I just don't feel like I would necessarily want to write something the whole fam could gather round the living room and enjoy together.  That's Pixar's job.  When I troll the Internet for anything about christian films I keep seeing buzz words like, "family friendly", "up lifting", "positive", "encouraging".  What about real? When did that become such a bad thing?  I'm trying to create some "real fiction" with my script.  There has to be some balance between using the medium for a message and creating a medium with a message. Ya, so that's either incredibly brilliant or the dumbest thing anyone has put out on the blog universe.  I just want to write a script that's smart, funny and talks about God in a natural way.

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