USA Scriptchat 8-17-14
Special thanks to writer/producer David Jung for being our guest.
Tonight's moderator is Zac Sanford
And always, thank you to Sarah Newman for the wonderful questions.
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Pitch for Only $199 Then Come to ScriptMag & Scriptchat Meetup at Screenwriters World Conference, August 16th
Screenwriters World Saturday Pitch-Only Pass Now Available!
Register in Advance or On Site for only $199 and get your
logline included in a directory that goes out to all the executives hearing pitches!
Don't miss a chance to meet Script Magazine contributors as well as Scriptchat peeps at
Screenwriters World Conference, Saturday, August 16th at 8pm at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza bar!
Come on over and hang with SWC attendees and expand your network!
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
2025 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Saturday, August 16th
8pm PDT
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
David Jung to Guest on Scriptchat August 17th!
Scriptchat is thrilled to have David Jung @davidfujung as our guest this Sunday, August 17th at 5pm PDT!
Just go to the chat room and enjoy an hour picking David's brain and enjoying his journey.
His new film, The Possession of Michael King, debuts August 22nd.
David Jung’s family had one of the first VCRs in their neighborhood. It was a huge clunky monstrosity, purchased by his father. Its sole purpose: to record horror films. David’s earliest education came from that machine. He was in charge of hitting the pause button whenever a commercial came on, so that his father could “conserve tape.”
Forced to keep his eyes glued to that glowing tube for endless weekends, he was given an education in gore, one that couldn’t be bought, and one that sadly, he was never graded upon - as he was far from an A student in traditional school subjects... or even a B student, actually.
His fanatical dad dressed up as Dracula, all the time. He wore a black cape (with a sewn-in red liner) carried a silver tipped cane, and glued on homemade fangs (chiseled from ivory, right in the basement workshop). He travelled the neighborhood this way paying visits to friends and relatives, even crashing and leading the occasional parade.
This became embarrassing for Dave as a teen. But his dad’s knowledge of the supernatural was unbeatable. Its discussion took precedence over sports, politics, or any other such nonsense at the dinner table.
This led David to experiment, at a very young age, not with sex or drugs, but with Ouija boards, satanic scriptures, and homemade scientific experiments which attempted to raise the dead.
When these failed to produce results, instead of giving up and facing the prospect of searching for a job in the “real world,” Jung headed to the one place on earth where reality doesn’t matter: Hollywood. Having no discernable advantage over the throng of young talent in the pool (a.k.a. a relative in the biz), David proceeded to muscle his way, quite literally, into Roger Corman’s (now defunct) Concord New Horizon Studios in Santa Monica.
Upon noticing a group of laborers carrying an assortment of prop trees, hedges and other greenery into the studio off the back of a truck, Jung nimbly stepped into the assembly line, hefted a tree, and headed off into the studio after them.
A grueling twenty-two hour day later, Jung was approached by the director, and asked to join the crew.
Since then, Jung has worked as an executive at Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, and has written films for just about every studio in town.
The Possession of Michael King is his directorial debut.
Follow The Possession of Michael King on Facebook and Twitter, @POMKmovie.
Follow David on Twitter at @davidfujung
Just go to the chat room and enjoy an hour picking David's brain and enjoying his journey.
His new film, The Possession of Michael King, debuts August 22nd.
David Jung’s family had one of the first VCRs in their neighborhood. It was a huge clunky monstrosity, purchased by his father. Its sole purpose: to record horror films. David’s earliest education came from that machine. He was in charge of hitting the pause button whenever a commercial came on, so that his father could “conserve tape.”
Forced to keep his eyes glued to that glowing tube for endless weekends, he was given an education in gore, one that couldn’t be bought, and one that sadly, he was never graded upon - as he was far from an A student in traditional school subjects... or even a B student, actually.
His fanatical dad dressed up as Dracula, all the time. He wore a black cape (with a sewn-in red liner) carried a silver tipped cane, and glued on homemade fangs (chiseled from ivory, right in the basement workshop). He travelled the neighborhood this way paying visits to friends and relatives, even crashing and leading the occasional parade.
This became embarrassing for Dave as a teen. But his dad’s knowledge of the supernatural was unbeatable. Its discussion took precedence over sports, politics, or any other such nonsense at the dinner table.
This led David to experiment, at a very young age, not with sex or drugs, but with Ouija boards, satanic scriptures, and homemade scientific experiments which attempted to raise the dead.
When these failed to produce results, instead of giving up and facing the prospect of searching for a job in the “real world,” Jung headed to the one place on earth where reality doesn’t matter: Hollywood. Having no discernable advantage over the throng of young talent in the pool (a.k.a. a relative in the biz), David proceeded to muscle his way, quite literally, into Roger Corman’s (now defunct) Concord New Horizon Studios in Santa Monica.
Upon noticing a group of laborers carrying an assortment of prop trees, hedges and other greenery into the studio off the back of a truck, Jung nimbly stepped into the assembly line, hefted a tree, and headed off into the studio after them.
A grueling twenty-two hour day later, Jung was approached by the director, and asked to join the crew.
Since then, Jung has worked as an executive at Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, and has written films for just about every studio in town.
The Possession of Michael King is his directorial debut.
Follow The Possession of Michael King on Facebook and Twitter, @POMKmovie.
Follow David on Twitter at @davidfujung
Sunday, August 10, 2014
#Scriptchat Transcript: Guests Loyd Auerbach & Arnold Rudnick talking about the Paranormal in storytelling
Our guests were parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach @profparanormal and writer Arnold Rudnick @arnoldrudnick talking about how to incorporate the paranormal into your storytelling.
Moderated by Kim Garland @kim_garland
Moderated by Kim Garland @kim_garland
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Loyd Auerbach and Arnold Rudnick to Guest on Scriptchat August 10, 2014
Loyd Auerbach and Arnold Rudnick will be our guests on Scriptchat,
talking all things PARANORMAL!
Meet Loyd and Arnold at their next class:
Saturday, September 20, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (PDT)
Universal City, CA
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