Maurice Vaughan Thank you

You're welcome, Nicola Gaughan.

Oh no Nicola Gaughan I’m sorry to hear that .

Abdur, thank you so very much for giving my hard work some attention. Being independent makes things very difficult. Hope you enjoy CIT and let me know your thoughts. Thanks again! :)

Will do, and look out for a review.

Abdur Mohammed Abdur! WOW! Thanks for watching all of that. I have been a filmmaker (indie) for over 20 years now. So I have developed quite a few skills to make my trailers, etc. lol But mostly it's about concept and vision, then I worry about execution. And I am very intense when working on my film and writing projects. Some think I'm quite mad, lol. At any rate, you mentioned a review; do you have a site you review for, or social media? I can certainly use any help getting the word out about my books and films. As I've said 1 million times over the years: being completely independent is VERY hard work and VERY frustrating much of the time. As I see you are also indie in your work, I'm sure you can relate.

Thanks for the share. “Docks of New York” also a must see 1928. Actors/Actress George Bancroft/Betty Compson. Director Von Sternberg another classic. The beauty of the film was we did not even notice there was no talking because artists spoke from the soul.

Nice to meet you, Cory Baker. How's it going?

I'm doing great, how are you doing?

I'm doing fine, thanks. Excited for the new football season?

Thanks for the comments everyone.

Jeffrey, no one buys TV specs at all, and what do jingles have to with anything? And the Coen - not Cohen - brothers are not doing TV, they just had their Fargo remade into a series. people shouldn't offer advice if they don't know anything about the business. it can only do harm.

So I shouldn't be writing jingles when I really want to write screenplays?

Hi Maria! Enjoyed watching your reel.

Thanx Jimmie!

Congratulations on the international productions! How fun! I'd kill to work on a foreign production. I look forward to keeping up with you.

Jet - I'm a screenwriter here in the Bay Area. I'm also a member of the Scary Cow filmmaking collective in San Francisco, working on short films. It's a pleasure to meet you.

Keep me in mind for a role in your upcoming projects. http://www.youtube.com/user/smacvill33?feature=watch www.ShannonKomai.com http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2287319/

Hey Jet. Cool trailer - well done. If we can assist by running your films on our site to help spread the word happy to assist. Hope you have an awesome 2014 Best Milt www.firstritesfilms.com

all my stuff is noir and when i ge tto my features will also push that and would love to be known along with writing for my lighting

Yes JD your lighting is exceptional. It captures the true shadowy decadence of Noir, creating strong visually tense and intimate atmosphere. Brilliant dialogue aswell, deeply layered, depicting their love/hate, addiction/void, conflict/wretched excess etc. I'm not surprised at award, and great it led to a feature for the actress.

thank you again, very nice of you, yes Vicky is a beautiful spirit and very happy for her, before this all she had been able to get was dumb bimbo roles in badly made films, which i know was a real struggle for her as she gave up a profession as a lawyer in Greece to move here for this....and thank you for compliment on my lighting.....my lighting is a big focus for me on my films, writing less so cause ive been writing for 25 years so I know it will be there....

what a bunch of ... I could never write a scene like this. But I guess Margaret could. Her insight into human nature. https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-Lkry-SF01&hsimp=yhs-SF0...

a man will try to write women. I give up. it is simply impossible.

The only readers that throw talent in the bin are untalented ones. If they are writers they can tell great work when they read it.

If there are a number count blah blah blah. That could all be done by a minimum wage temp.

“Find and replace - Flashback with Flashback. If it has more than zero, throw it in the bin”. No readers needed.

Flashback, narration, bad format is done badly by bad writers. They are not an indiction of bad writing.

If you are a bad writer removing these doesn’t not make you a good writer.

Are you willing to let the Director/DP/Editor do their jobs? Do you see the connection?

Doug, I know it is a collaborative process. Of course I see the connection. Sadly, someone did NOT do their job with the Alec Baldwin tragedy. Be nice Doug. I respect your experience. My next door neighbor is Valerie Davidson ... accomplished sound editor. Sound editing gets so little appreciation.

I think it is the concept of “Minutia”. If we take that literally it is overkill.

I give detail in action and description. As much detail as is needed to get the look and feel across. Minutia give the impression of overdoing the detail. Let’s look at the tooth brush as an example.

“Steve enters the room. Jane keeps brushing her teeth staring straight into the mirror in a hope that Steve will not try and talk to her”.

That gives a hint at the action. Also how actors can perform it. Steve could look at her waiting to be acknowledged. Jane is brushing like her life depends on it, longer than is needed.

Or if there is too much detail.

“Steve enters the room. Jane keeps brushing her teeth. The brush goes back and forth with a fevered action. She swaps sides. She stares at the mirror like a woman standing in front of a firing squad hoping to change their hearts with her stare. Steve waits patiently. Jane moves towards her back teeth. The brushing noise….”. You get the point. Over written with way way way too much detail.

How much detail is too much?