Writing/Filmmaking Whispering

Hollywood Screenplay

dvasicek — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:40:00 +0000

The key to getting definite
action on your scripts is to make
sure they are market ready.
Market ready scripts contain
commercial elements that
parallel the genres in which
they are written. They must
also parallel movies that
have made money at the box
office.

Who has read your scripts
besides you? What kind of
feedback have you gotten?
What makes you feel that
your scripts are ready for
something definite? What
kind of networking have
you done? How do you
contact producers, etc.
to ask them to read your
scripts? What about agencies?

There is a "secret" that those
in Hollywood who have been
successful know. They may not
be consciously aware of it, but
they employ it to be successful.
It originates and finds its
life inside of you. Do you know
what that "secret" is? If you
do not know what it is, then, this
could be a reason why you aren't
getting definite action on your
scripts.

The fine point of this is, that,
if you haven't, you should have
someone with experience in the business
look at your work. This can be
of tremendous help to you. Most
A-list screenwriters employ this
when their objectivity has gone
out the window, i. e., lost track
of the "secret."

I hope this has been of help to you.

Best Regards,
Don
Olympus Films+, LLC
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net

A favorite Zen story

dvasicek — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:05:00 +0000

A favorite Zen story in which three men are
observing a flag fluttering in the breeze: One
man says, The flag ismoving. The second
man says, The wind is moving. The third
man says, You are both wrong, it is your
mind that is moving.

If you look inside of yourself, you will see
the information you need to be successful.
This information contains everything you
need to be successful. The secret to
tapping into this information is contained
in Writing/Filmmaking Whispering.

How so, you ask?

Look inside of yourself and you will see
the answer. This is the secret to successful
writing and/or filmmaking. Look inside
of yourself and you will see the secret.

Why is it that Steven Spielberg is a
successful filmmaker? He has the ability
to look inside of himself and see the secret.

Why is Stephen King a successful novelist?
He has the ability to look inside of himself
and see the secret.

What do you seek when you write a letter,
or make a corporate video? Do you look
outside or inside of your mind and heart?
When you look inside of yourmind and
heart you enhance your ability to seethe
secret to being successful in yourundertaking.
When you lookoutside of your mind and heart,
you have no ability to see thesecret to being
successful.

What rings true in each one of us is our
ability to think and feel. When we tap
into those senses to write a screenplay
or make a documentary film, we look
inside of ourselves. We see the secret
to successfully write the screenplay or
making the documentary filmsuccessful.

You might ask, but I do that and I see
nothing. The reason you see nothing is
because you allow yourself to avoid seeing
the secret. You allow yourselfto avoid seeing
the secret because you do notknow how to
see the secret.

With Writing/Filmmaking Whispering, you
will see the secret. You need simply to
contact me.

Sand Creek Massacre Film Harvest Another Best Film Award

dvasicek — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:27:00 +0000

CENTENNIAL, CO -- "The Sand Creek Massacre" was awarded a Golden Drover Award (like an Oscar only a Drover) for Best Native American Film in the Trail Dance Film Festival in Duncan, Oklahoma on the Chisholm Trail on January 13, 2008. The documentary film, also awarded Best Film in The Indie Film Festival and The American Indian Film Festival, portrays the horrific event from the Cheyenne and Arapahos' perspective when more than 400 women, children, mentally- and physically- challenged people, and elderly were slaughtered by military troops in the southeastern Colorado Territory in 1864.

Cecil Brewer, a film festival volunteer, said he and his wife really liked "The Sand Creek Massacre". He said, "I never heard about this event before." Although he enjoyed watching the movie, he said it appeared to him that there was no motive for the massacre, just cold-blooded murder."“The Sand Creek Massacre” was only one of approximately two dozen documentaries shown over the course of the weekend-long event at the Simmons Center and Chisholm Trail Heritage Center.

Award-winning writer/filmmaker, Donald L. Vasicek, the director and producer of the film, said, "As I mentioned to Bill Kurtis (producer of more than 300 hundred documentaryfilms, many of which have been aired on A&E including "Investigating History", "Cold Case Files", and "American Justice") during breakfast one morning, I entered the film in the Trail Dance Film Festival for exposure. I define this kind of exposure to be exposure of the Sand Creek Massacre and to educate others in order to create a greater awareness about the Cheyenne and Arapaho people." Vasicek, via his film company, Olympus Films+, LLC, is dedicated to writing and producing quality products that serve to educate others about the human condition.