John Q. Phats Entertainment

I’m currently writing a horror type film titled Red Hood. So, I’ve been watching things that help inspire me. I rented Paranormal Activity last night and watched it alone in the dark. I’m hardcore like that. I know I’m about a year too late, but it didn’t really interest me when I saw the previews. There was a lot of hype when Blaire Witch came out and I didn’t really care for Blaire Witch. It was different, I’ll give it that. The only problem I can see with mixing the mocumentary and horror genre is at some point someone in the audience is probably going to ask “Why the hell are you still filming you fucking moron?” People tend to get pulled out of a scene if the characters do things that don’t seem real. Especially in a movie that’s trying to look as real as possible. Paranormal Activity had a little bit of that, but it wasn’t to guilty of it too often. It does suffer from the horrible fate that most horror movies suffer from. One of the characters is a complete moron. This character usually inflates his/her chest and then proceeds to have a dick measuring contest with all of the other more rational characters in the movie. This character does not react like real people would. Instead they do the exact opposite of what real people would do.
Most of the time, I’m somewhat satisfied when this character dies. Mainly because they pretty much deserve it. I actually really enjoyed Paranormal Activity though. The character, Mica is that annoying character. You spend most of the movie wondering we he’s such an asshat. A horror movie should put you on the edge of your seat and Paranormal Activity did that pretty well. The dead camera in the room was pretty genius. The fact that the camera doesn’t move just adds to the tension. On top of that, the time lapses were great. Time would speed up and then slow down. When the time slowed down, the audience knew something was going to happen. They had no idea what, but they knew it was going to be something. It was sort of a form of psychological conditioning. After the first scene like that the audience knew that time slowing down to normal speed meant something scary was going to happen. I really liked how time would slow down 10 – 15 seconds before anything actually happened. That just made it all the more suspenseful.
Paranormal Activity did a really good job of inspiring me. I cranked out about 5 pages last night in under an hour. That’s a pretty good pace for me. I find that the deeper I get in to this project the easier it’s getting. Caine is helping me write it. I’m not making things very easy on him though. I have a pretty specific vision in mind and I think it’s tough for him to match that. It would be tough for anybody.

I’m sorry for the leave of absence everyone.  I’ve sort of been stuck in writing.  I’m not sure how this happened, but I seriously can’t think of anything to write.  That doesn’t make for a very exciting blog.  “Today, I sat and starred at a blank Final Draft document for an hour, then I watched The Simpsons and played NHL10 for 3 hours.”  It’s hard for me to force inspiration, because my inspiration comes from all over the place.  Sometimes a song can jump start things and sometimes it’s a commercial for maxi pads.  True story by the way, I once wrote a short film based off of an idea that I got after seeing a tampon commercial.  When I’m stuck, I’m not really sure where to go to unstick myself.  I tried doing a writing exercise that’s supposed to help with writers block.  It lead me to a wonderful place called Jack Shit Ville.  It’s lovely in the spring.  My problem is doubt.  I’m doubting everything that I write.  You start out excited about an idea and then all of a sudden doubt creeps in and then it’s a horrible idea.
Lately I’ve been watching a lot of movies and listening to a lot of music to try and get over this.  I’ve watched some great movies.  In Bruges was absolutely amazing and I was angry with myself for waiting that long to see it.  With a mixture of that and some of the music I’ve been listening to, I think I’ve got something.  I found this band because they have a song that’s in a Kia commercial and I thought it was a pretty awesome song.  The CD is absolutely amazing.  This isn’t the song that inspired me, but it’s what lead me to the band to begin with:

So, I will be writing something tonight and I’ll let you guys know how it goes.
By the way, I got accepted to the New York Film Academy Masters Program.

P.S. If writers block were a person, he/she would every annoying human trait imaginable.