Showing posts with label short film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short film. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Hay there Co-Writer

15th April 2023

Hay there Co-Writer,

From your ad I guess you’re looking for someone with the hunger for success to help you write the second film in a horror franchise. Me, I have the endless aching hunger of the Wendigo cutting into my soul. My life itself is a horror story of that quiet nature of sadness being never truly violent but always horrific, but that’s not important.

Back in college I took a writing class, and the teacher said he’d send my work to a production company. I wrote the first draft of a film in twenty-one days and handed it in. He read it and gave me notes and I had the next draft to him the following morning. Every time he gave me notes I had the film ready for him the next morning.

He lied about sending my work to a production company. In the end, he kept talking like all I needed was to get a good grade. What are grades once you get into the real world?

Anyway, here is a link to my IMDB
 
And to two short horror films that I wrote that got made. I play the fat man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vg4iLPeGNk&t=364s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWny0Kso4Tg

Originally I wrote the first one as a thirty second film called “Human Suit” but the director wanted to add some gore to the thing, and so it needed some back story. As he had two young children I came up with an idea capitalizing on the available talent. I was to enter a dark room, sit down, and then it was to look as if his youngest child were an imp that crawled out of my gut as if I were a suit of some kind.

His idea of having me explode was more expensive, less creepy, and needed more back story to make it a true film. Why would an imp wear a human suit? Because imps are deceptive magical things that go about fooling people. Why would a child burst from a man’s chest? Yeah, that one needs some more explanation.

So you can have a look at what my work I’ll enclose a full length film I wrote.

Best,

 
Richard Leland Neal


Monday, July 9, 2012

Opportunity


19th March 2012
Dear Cassi,

Today was one of those days when you get a kick in the teeth. My director informed me that his actress for the shoot this weekend is occupied during the day and as the new version of the script requires daylight we are out of luck.
       
I fear the script is too personal for this fellow to change so even after the expenditure and the work this project is put on hold. The worst of this is that it now cannot make deadline for the contest in intended it to enter. A half million dollars and we will never take our shot at so much a prize. Watching so great an opportunity evaporate like quicksilver is painful. I am no stranger to this hollow feeling but it still stings.
       
The world has no sympathy for folks like I who hustle and bustle about in the oddest way. What I will find in this wondering I cannot say nor wish I to as yet know for I will find the product to be unworthy of the walking and then would just stay home.
       
What I need is an ambling of sorts, but where to amble to I do know not. All I know is that I have a need for this movement.

Never get stagnant, little sister

Richard Leland Neal

Also updating today!
Random Street Theater a Comic
http://randomstreet.blogspot.com/

Jonny American a webcomic