User blog:Dorkpool/I'm Making a Movie

So I’m making a movie now. Well, ok, technically it’s a short film, but it’s still a collection of moving images with sound. Or, in any case, it will be.

Let me give you some backstory:

Some years back I wrote a story called “Netvos.” It’s a parody of “Sonic.exe” that asks, “What if the guy who got the disk wasn’t a complete moron who was scared of everything?” Hijinks ensue. It’s still on the Trollpasta Wiki archives, but I don’t recommend looking at it. It’s not my best work.

Anyway, that’s just background. Let’s fast forward to around January. I’m at home, doing Dorkpool things (make of the phrase “Dorkpool things” what you will), when a friend of mine texts me. He writes something along the lines of, “Hey, my dudearino, my girlfriend makes movies and wants to make another one but has no real script or idea. I know you like to do writing. You wanna write up a script for her to make into a movie?”

I, naturally, say, “Ok.” Then I wrack my brain for an idea, and end up going to “Netvos,” a story I felt that had a good idea but needed better execution. So, I cleaned it up a bit, adapted it to a script, and sent it to my friend. I figured that’d be the end of it. Not because my friend is unreliable or anything. It’s just that things like this normally don’t pan out.

Anyway, my friend showed it to his girlfriend, who seemed to like it, and she ended up assembling a crew to work on it, all of whom read and apparently liked or tolerated the script. I was offered the opportunity to help out with directing the movie, to which I said, “Ok,” and just like that I was involved in making a movie.

From what I’ve seen, the crew that’ll be working on this is incredibly talented. At the very least, this will look and sound really good.

We’re still working on casting, and filming starts around April. I think it’ll be finished around June-ish.

Personally, I must say this is kind of nuts to me. A dumb story I wrote as a joke making fun of some idiot’s dumbass Sonic Creepypasta is now being turned into a short film. Some people think it is worth the time and effort to do this. That’s kind of awesome.

That’s all I really have to say on this now. I may post updates as info becomes available. Stay tuned, folks.