Say Something
Say Something was a final I did for New York film academy. All of our projects weren’t allowed to use dialogue. Somehow we got the impression that our final was supposed to have dialogue. I wrote a funny script about a couple arguing that had some big laughs in it. It was totally raw. It was filthier than shit but it had a happy ending. I was really happy with it. About 2 weeks before shooting, one of our teachers dropped the bomb, that are final would not be allowed to have dialogue. So, rather then write a new script, I started thinking about other ways the characters could communicate. One day while in my car driving to school, I realized that a song can have a very personal and specific message in it. It just depends on when it’s presented to you and how it’s presented. That’s when I decided to make the couple communicate through music. Because they had grown so distant they just didn’t know what to say anymore. Writting Say Something was challenging to say the least. I used a modified version of the first script I wrote when I thought we could use dialogue. Then I just picked music based on that. It took me roughly 2 weeks to edit it. I think what I ended up with was my most polished and clever short film to date. The original one with dialogue is still there. Thanks to the limitation that had been set for the project though, it’s better by far then the original script.
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