Object: Character in a social context.
Thus, no close ups. Always interaction between the foreground and the background. Don't edit for effect. Rather, long shots in real time. Create the moment of truthfulness in which the camera is just there to register that moment of truthfulness.
Deal more with theme than character or story.
Take ideas from everything. Even "Jerry Springer." Write down quotes you hear in everyday life. Keep a notebook at all times and write!
You cannot calculate a masterpiece. You will fail if you attempt to do so. You can only do the best you can. Just do it block by block in the effort to tell a good story.
Theme links all the elements of the story together. You do not need concrete joints.
it's amateur hour
