. a blogumn by R.B. Ripley As you may recall, I’ve been working on muscling a short film into production for the past three months. Everyone around this town always says that getting the money is the hardest part of producing any film. Well, I got the money (well, about 88% of what we need) [...]

. a blogumn by R.B. Ripley I have spent a majority of the past four weeks dealing with numbers, filling out forms, preparing presentations, writing and returning hundreds of email, crafting solicitation letters – in a word, producing. Someone asked me if I was having fun? It made me pause and think. What is fun [...]

. a blogumn by R.B. Ripley “So, what format are you shooting on?” was the question casually posed to me. Format? I froze, then panicked, then had to work really hard to keep from crying in public. Yeah, that’s me, the writer. In a meeting at a boutique post-production house talking with people who KNOW [...]

. a blogumn by R.B. Ripley I have a new favorite thing… its called… a storyboard. Once again Ripley is the last to jump on the bandwagon of a good thing. I have several writer friends who are also comic / graphic novel hounds and I’ve always admired their ability to think cinematically. Of course [...]

. a blogumn by Rob Ripley So after swallowing what I thought was my pride (but wound up only being my ego), I started calling people on the list I’d made the previous week, asking if they might be interested in working on a short film for a first-time director with a minimal budget that [...]

. a blogumn by R.B. Ripley You may recall last week’s column in which I shared the tragic tale of the breakdown I had this past fall; The resulting crisis of not being able to translate story ideas in my head onto the page. So I set out to find a way of looking at [...]

. a new blogumn by R.B. Ripley There’s a gap between the movies rattling around in my head and what actually winds up in one of my scripts. In my mind, I laugh, cheer, weep, and scream with anger at my stories – all the responses a good film should elicit. But on the page? [...]