Ok... the sun shouldn't be too hard to find these days in sunny Lisbon.

Now, can you pack a sun-related social-, inter-personal, and personal conflict in less than 4 minutes?

http://www.lyricstime.com/live-sun-lyrics.html :D

Best,

Hugo

Sun (noun.) - a star that is the basis of the solar system and that sustains life on Earth, being the source of heat and light. It has a mean distance from Earth of about 93 million miles, a diameter of approximately 864,000 miles and a mass 333,000 times that of Earth. It contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system.

What a whopper of a topic. Sun Bloody Sun.

Im questioning the possibilities....


and there aren't a lot at the moment.

Geez, here in S. Texas it's "sun, sun everywhere and not a frame to capture...."

this could be interesting....

Do I have an idea or what?! Now if only I can gather up enough of a cast and many extras.

Sorry Joey,

I didn't mean for my response to be a conjecture of the simplicity of the topic.

I was meaning for quite the opposite. It's such a general theme that it's difficult to narrow down on ideas. Like any assignments, it's often times when we're under the must constraints that creativity works the most (best?) to compensate.

Sun Bloody Sun was meant to be a pun for the abbreviation for John Schlesinger's 1971 film.

no problem man.
i didn't even know you were talking to me, hehe.

and yes, the sun is such a HUGE general topic it is really hard to think of a story.

Problem is, it is gloooomy where I am at. no sun to be found!

Holy mother of god...
 

I have an idea.

Bloody Great !. I live in south of UK and it is cloudy with rain at the moment. Where am I supposed to get some sun from ?. I am going to have to improvise on this one !

Question
 

Question Dylan:

Does the story have to be soley written by me, or could it be written with someone else?

Joey, pending a more erudite answer from Dylan, I think it is fair to say as a general matter that you must have the rights to whatever screenplay you use in a production. If you're collaborating with someone and they did most of the writing, I'd expect that would be fine, just as you can have any number of actors. They're part of your productio team. However, if you were surfing the net and found the perfect screenplay, but it belongs to someone else, then that's no different than using music you don't have the rights to.

Works with the right Creative Commons licenses can be used, however, because CC is not copyright. Many CC licenses allow you to use, appropriate, re-mix, adapt, build upon, etc. the work so long as you follow the restrictions. Creative Commons means some rights reserved. Copyright means all rights reserved.

Ya definitely.

It was a friend of mine who gave me a very good idea (IMHO) and I would like to further write it.

He would obviously get a writers credit too!

Are we not allowed to use copyrighted music, even for these little films?!

Joey

Exactly, if you don't own the copyright or have the rights to use the copyright, you can't use it.

The Sun ?
Err...right.