14 posts in 12 threads for "@TapeDeckTerrors"
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
Adding 'one strange rule by page five' to my wall, right next to 'why is the camera still rolling.'
- Is found footage a hard sell as a spec script?
Going with the proof plus spec plan. Shooting a basement test this weekend. Thank you all, this is the most useful thread I have been in.
- Analog horror is moving from YouTube to features. Does the format survive the jump?
As a director, I think the jump works if you keep the grammar and change the container. Interstitials, test cards, dead air. Just do not explain the lore in act two. The moment someone says 'the entit…
- Page One Friday: share the opening line of your script (week 38)
BLACK. The sound of a camcorder powering on. A kid whispers: 'Okay, it is recording. Say it again, but slower.'
- Is found footage a hard sell as a spec script?
So maybe the real move is a short proof plus the script. That is honestly more my speed than a query letter anyway.
- Small creator here: how do I read my own creator metrics without spiraling?
Also: the thing that matters most for series creators is whether new entries lift the floor. If your quiet weeks sit higher after each upload, you are building.
- Is found footage a hard sell as a spec script?
Honest question. I have a found footage feature that reads great to me, but every reader says 'hard to evaluate on the page.' Is found footage just a bad format for a spec, or am I formatting it wrong…
- Logline critique thread: post yours, get honest (kind) notes
Two teenagers livestreaming from an abandoned water park realize their chat is watching from inside the park, and the viewer count is going down one by one.
- Analog horror series: why does audience growth come in stairs, not slopes?
Tip for anyone building one: seed a mystery in every entry that only resolves two entries later. It keeps the back catalog alive during the flat.
- Short film programming: how do you order a great horror shorts block?
Leave a slot for local filmmakers if you can. The best crowd at any shorts block is the director's family.
- Low budget, high multiple: why horror keeps getting greenlit
Found footage is the purest version of the model. The camera is the budget. The famous late 90s and late 2000s examples made for almost nothing are why every one of us owns a shaky cam and a plan.
- Contained horror on a tight budget: what on the page quietly costs money?
Company moves. Every time the unit packs up for a new location you lose half a day. Two locations max if you can manage it.
- Crowdfunding a micro budget feature: can genre signals help pick the launch window?
The real engine of every campaign I have seen is the first 48 hours from people who already know you. Signals tell you the weather. Your mailing list is the umbrella.
- Spanish horror after [REC]: what did it change?
As someone who shoots found footage, the lesson I took from [REC] is that the camera operator has to be a character with a reason to keep filming. A reporter and her cameraman, the perfect excuse.