A few weeks ago, my script writer’s group challenged me to write a script about a ZOOM meeting. At first, I didn’t see any point in that, but then I came up with an interesting concept.
My working title is “The ZOOM Bomber”.
I started, then stopped, then started again. Eventually I had a first draft. I left it a couple of days and did a revision. I was worried that I may have gone too far with the violence in the story. I do have a couple of fight scenes. We’ll see what people think. I’ve passed it to a few people for comments. Once I get some feedback, I’ll do another revision.
I didn’t intend to do anything further with the script. I do plan to post a final revision on my website, but I can’t see myself making the film. I don’t feel up to finding someone else to make it.
However, I started to feel inspired to investigate maybe doing something more with it. At one of our script group sessions we talked about some major companies do animated storyboards to see how a movie plays.
I did something like that with “The Barrier” using Xtranormal. I don’t think Nawmal would work with this story because of the fight scenes (https://www.nawmal.com/). I found a story board program on-line that I am trying out: https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder/. It doesn’t animate, just creates a series of still images, but I think that might do for now. It has been a bit of a challenge to start using it. I did get the first sequence of the story done. I can move on to the rest.
I used some artificial voices to create the dialogue. They aren’t licensed for commercial use, so if I want to post the result on-line, I’ll need to find another way to do the dialogue. I know some actors and maybe I can get them to do it as a test. That is something I would like to try out anyway.