Directing a super-8 movie in high school
Directing a super-8 movie in high school
What inspired you to become a writer and specifically a screenwriter? What kind of training have you had in writing?
My dream at eleven years old was to become a filmmaker, and the spark happened when my childhood friend Matt Reeves (director of Cloverfield, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) received a Super-8 camera from his …show more content…
It was a screenwriting assignment, and I remember spending three months doing the necessary research before I ever started writing pages. We later had a naval consultant go through the script to make sure the technical aspects and tactics were on point, but it was a real learning experience jumping into a world that I knew little about. You never know where the research will take you, and the fun part is getting to visit places you’d never go before. I was able to tour a docked submarine in Long Beach, California to get a feel of what it’s like to be below deck. It helped me with the writing to have experienced what it’s like in the cramped quarters and narrow