Category: Indie Film & Video

Cargo 3120: The Making of a Sci-Fi Franchise #5

CARGO3120Entry 5 The Rebirth of CARGO

by Aaron Walker Sr.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Story So Far starts HERE)

The process of molding the story of Cargo 3120 was in a word: Grueling. I remember reading an article about an Oscar winning screenwriter saying that it took him a couple of years to tweak the screenplay that ultimately won him that illustrious award. I found that hard to believe, but I had to eat those words, because it took us over 3 years to get our story to where it is today (and we’ve never won an award!).

But it all started with the first day of the beginning writing class, which felt a bit overwhelming at first, as it seems everyone in the class was much more experienced than I. In fact, Cargo was the first screenplay/completed story that I had ever written. read article

Peer Production: MY LIFE WITH SOCK

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by Larry Brody

I’m stepping in to introduce Mia Pinchoff’s MY LIFE WITH SOCK because…well, because even if I weren’t a puppet lover who spent much of my life with various socks over my hands doing their shtick with my kids when they were younger, I’d still be absolutely charmed by Ms. Pinchoff’s take on what happens when a very human woman dates an even more humanlike sock.

Here’s what I mean:

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Peer Production: A TALE OF MOMENTUM & INERTIA

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Now this is a rock star:

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Cargo 3120: The Making of a Sci-Fi Franchise #4

CARGO3120Entry 4 – The First Draft of CARGO

by Aaron Walker Sr.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Story So Far starts HERE)

Though I graduated in 2008, I didn’t write the first draft of Cargo until 2011. One thing that helped was having the source material from the class I took back in 2005. Note to all who are trying to develop a series: Work out your fiction before you start writing. One thing that impeded our progress back when we were teens was our failure to plan our story and develop our universe first. We talked about a lot of “cool scenes” but we never tied it together with a strong narrative. In short, world building and story planning is the very foundation of any science fiction endeavor.

Not knowing what I was doing, I turned to the internet to learn how to write a screenplay. Someone suggested planning your story out using index cards, so that’s exactly what I did. The result was a 117 page monstrosity that I absolutely loved and was proud of at the time. In my mind, I was ready for the competitions. So I entered the TVWriter.com 2011 People’s Pilot competition. read article

Peer Production: ANIMATOR VS. ANIMATION (IV)

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Not something you’ll be seeing on TV. Which is a damn shame. But once again the genius of the individual “fan” content creator comes flying across our computer screens:

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