Ok im taking a chance here posting something completly off topic, but nevertheless...
Suppose you have a lot of ideas and are working on an screenplay. Nothing too groundbreaking, nothing too out there either, just good mixture of alot of things you love by different directors and movies but never get a chance to see in 1 single movie.
Lets say you have 2 realistic options:
1)You write the screenplay for it and look to sell it
2)You write the screenplay, gather a few interested comunications and film students and maybe look into some minor financing, and try to direct it and make it happen on an amateur level. ( Asuming you are not one such student yourself and need external help, lots of it )
As i see it, if i try the second the lack of money and experience, and lack of reliable resoures could end up making the movie look and feel like crap no matter how good the screenwriter and the idea is.
On the other hand it gets done: If you go for number 1 chances are that since you are totally amateur no one will give you the time of day, and if they do someone could end up buying it and making it into total crap, so far away from your original screenplay you are embarassed to associate yourself with it. But if you manage it you could get it out in a more professional way and even make some money out of it, to finance something of your own later.
What would you do?
Suppose you have a lot of ideas and are working on an screenplay. Nothing too groundbreaking, nothing too out there either, just good mixture of alot of things you love by different directors and movies but never get a chance to see in 1 single movie.
Lets say you have 2 realistic options:
1)You write the screenplay for it and look to sell it
2)You write the screenplay, gather a few interested comunications and film students and maybe look into some minor financing, and try to direct it and make it happen on an amateur level. ( Asuming you are not one such student yourself and need external help, lots of it )
As i see it, if i try the second the lack of money and experience, and lack of reliable resoures could end up making the movie look and feel like crap no matter how good the screenwriter and the idea is.
On the other hand it gets done: If you go for number 1 chances are that since you are totally amateur no one will give you the time of day, and if they do someone could end up buying it and making it into total crap, so far away from your original screenplay you are embarassed to associate yourself with it. But if you manage it you could get it out in a more professional way and even make some money out of it, to finance something of your own later.
What would you do?