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⌖*ﾟ— 550+ UNIQUE AND UNDERUSED MALE NAMES

as requested, i have created a masterlist of 550+ unique and underused male names ! these are all listed in alphabetical order, and although i dont claim any of these as my own, please don’t copy and paste straight into another masterlist. feel free to use the names in any way you like, i hope this gives you muse for your characters (my faves are bolded) — also smash that like or reblog if you found this useful, thank you !

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⌖*ﾟ— 400 UNIQUE AND UNDERUSED FEMALE NAMES

in honor of returning to the rpc, i have created a masterlist of 400 unique and underused female names ! these are all listed in alphabetical order, and although i dont claim any of these as my own, please don’t copy and paste straight into another masterlist. feel free to use the names in any way you like, i hope this gives you muse for your characters (my faves are bolded) — also smash that like or reblog if you found this useful, thank you !

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I’m actually 350% over the dialogue about black names being centered around “They mean something in some African language!”. Nah they don’t all mean something in any language 90% of the people naming their kids had no idea they did and they don’t need to. I don’t have to explain my damn name to you in order for it to be valid.

Respect my name cuz it’s my fucking name. If I have to respect that you named your white child Apple, Pilot Inspektor, PalmTree or Riverbank you can respect my name Waykedria or any other “ghetto” aka non white sounding name that you come across without it needing to have some African meaning or even asking me a single question about it.

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Classic Movie Character Costumes! Click for more!

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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air  |  6.04 “Bourgie Sings the Blues”

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shoutout to God for pulling me through day after day, night after night.

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As you grow old there are some roads you need to take alone. No friends, no family, no partner. Just you & God.

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Don’t let another year go by without progress my nigga.

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JUST FINISHED FILMING MY FIRST SHORT FILM

YEEHAW

Two months of film school left, now we’re off to the post-production stage. It’s for sure a student film, e.i. it’s mostly learning opportunities rather than a polished passion project, but there are some real nice shots (as well as some real ugly ones XD). Not sure if I’ll be able to get it into any film festival, but tbh, the only thing about it that makes me kinda sad is pressure from the organizers of the academy

Main lessons in random order (most of them boil down to Plan Ahead): (this is mostly for future me, but also 

You can only shoot 10 shots per day maximum (I had 70 shots in my first storyboard, to be filmed in 3 days. I managed to film 39 in 4)

Everyone needs a fanny pack

4 days of filming is too little for a 15 page script

8 hour work day is hell and should be abolished

If you’re behind the schedule, it’s equally as likely that the problem isn’t that you’re being too slow, but that the schedule was the one that’s been done poorly

SCHEDULE BREAKS BETWEEN SHOTS, OH GOD

In general, I only ever want to shoot one (1) scene per day. That way I could both actually live and pay attention to details

This one should have been fucking obvious, but meet with your actors before the shooting, and rehearse with them (I only ever did a table read with my two main actors and I’ve literally never met all my other actors IRL until they came onto the set. It sure made things… difficult…)

You don’t actually need to put makeup on actors if you’re not a coward.  You do need some anti-shine powder though

Once you have a storyboard/rough idea of shots, get your actors/people of the approximate height of your actors, go to the location with the camera and lenses you will shoot with, and see if the stuff you pictured in your head is even possible.

Stand-ins should be a separate role on the set. Just get some people who are down to chill that are your actors’ height.

Go over every scene of the script with your actors (…it has accidentally happen so that on the third day of filming I found out that my main actress has never read two pages of the script (from the CLIMAX) due to a printing error. Both her and I were very… surprised at the revelation)

If you use your living space as a shooting space, you will not be able to actually live there!

It’s painful, but you gotta hold auditions…

There’s actually a lot of people totally down to play in student films, professional actors included! Just don’t try to tick people into working for free. I just wrote at the top of my Facebook casting calls “This is a student project and I cannot pay anyone, this is just for fun and learning!” and I got all my roles filled pretty easily. (There’s one guy in my film who has a long list of credits on IMDB, and it really does show in the three lines he had in my film XD) Some people come for the experience, some for the line in a resume, some just for fun and some just want to support the project

Working with a lot of extras isn’t that hard actually (well, a lot is subjective, but I had 8 theater kids as extras & they were amazing!)

You gotta print stuff. You gotta print the schedule and shit

Get someone to cook lunch for the crew, that helps so much and elevates morale. It’s also cheaper for everyone involved. Like, instead of a 5€ prepackaged meal per person that most will inevitably get because no one has the strength or time to cook during the off hours, the crew can chip in for a bucket of soup, for a fraction of the price.

If you shoot outside, passersby WILL look straight into the camera during a take

I’ll later make a list of stuff that you need to shoot a film, but really, a camera, a couple of lenses (we had a 25, a 50 and an 85, and we barely ever used the 85 (maybe like once or twice per film. I don’t think it’s actually ever been used on my film???)

I’ll also make a list of crew member that you need/don’t really need

Equipment seems scary (god, the fear I felt the first time I set eyes on our TRIPOD), but I promise, iPhone settings are harder to dig through than any of that shit

You can learn a lot just from looking up a film set memes page on Facebook and googling every unfamiliar word

I will not fucking even try to “break into the industry starting from the bottom”, I love myself & care about my health. That’s not much of a lesson, though it is something I learned (I’ll just make the two indie passion projects I have in mind & the world can take it or leave it)

Sources: I’m in a hands-on film academy & I worked on 8 films over the span of 2 months. The teachers kinda dunked us into the deep end of the pool with the actual filming, but while it for sure could’ve been better, it’s still a great jump-start! Filmmaking is ridiculously inaccessible for no real reason.

If anyone has questions, send them, I’ll do my best to answer! I’ll fucking organize one-on-one skype lessons (though maybe open & recorded streams are more beneficial for everyone) with you if you’re down. I’m just really passionate about spreading filmmaking knowledge.

Oh, and my film will be done by about December 25th, and I will post it here, though I do hate that it’ll tie my tumblr to my real identity XD

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BASIC Basic Beginning Screenwriting Tips

I saw that someone had asked about tips for budding screenwriters on someone else’s blog, and seeing as I did not have much to do this morning, I thought that I would write out basic tips that I have struggled with in screenwriting classes that are fairly common mistakes/problems.

Every Line Is A Punch Line. Starting out for me I had hyper realistic, long winded, totally boring dialogue that was not necessary at all. Get to the point. The shorter the better and the more you can represent a character through as little dialogue as possible the better. Screenwriting is bizarre because on one hand, you want it to sound realistic on screen, but realistic dialogue on screen is very different from what people actually sound like in real life.

If You Are Working In Movies: Everything Is VISUAL. If You Are Working in TV: The DIALOGUE Is Essential. Yet at the same time, don’t get too carried away with visual descriptions. Your goal is to make clear images in the readers head with as few words as possible. 

Start The Story As Close To The End As Possible. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve bored audiences with longwinded, beautifully shot, quiet, elegant scenes nor how many times I have been a bored audience member for that exact reason. If you’re unsure when to start, start writing at the moment that you are most excited about and then have someone read it aloud. If it doesn’t make sense, go back and revise it.

Remember, these are just general tips, but in the screenwriting/filmmaking world, remember that they can always be broken if they are broken well. Hope this helps! :)

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