I Wrote My First Movie - What I Learned 

I love how you're just another guy learning at the same time as all of us.

Great video man!

Can I donate a few dollars somewhere to assist?

Hands down my favorite creator on RU-vid right now! I cant wait to see what you come up with!

can i help make it? :)

Dude, you have a finished script. That is such an achievement. Aw man, I’m super excited for you! ✊🏾

Amazing man, congrats on writing your first feature! If you figure out how to get funding, that is a video we would 100% watch over and over!! 🔥🔥 Love these tips as well, obviously it's subjective as half of these personally were really helpful and half of these are things we would never do as they would never work for us, but it's always interesting to see someone else's perspective! We have written so many shorts, but we are hoping to write our first feature next year! Keep these awesome videos coming man! 😁💙

Let's gooooooo!

Danny wrote a movie😳

"I'm making this movie for me." Loved that bit! Looking forward to the day I can sit down and watch your story

Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war. and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses causal relationships that cannot be separated - Uchiha Madara

As a screen writer myself, I can assure you, no one cares about your movie idea. Now, that sounds harsh right? The truth is, getting people to read your script is DIFFICULT and your idea has probably already been written. Once you turn it into a movie then everyone cares. It's common that 1st time writers hold their IP so closely to thier chest. Years later, you won't. LOL!! You'll want people to read everything. Remember, you'll never run out of ideas.

Good luck on your first feature man!

Danny I just finished printing out my first original short film script, you are one of the biggest reasons I want to pursue Film. I can't wait to see it!

I once wrote a book, basically a movie but when I printed out for the first time same feeling

Lol omg I’m not even joking that when you said your movie is a dark-comedy coming of age I thought, “he must like taika watiti.” Then lo and behold you mention him later in the video 😂 great video Danny, excited to see all of this come together!

Heck ya Danny! So stoked for you brother, congrats on getting the script finished. Such a big accomplishment. Can’t wait to see the rest of the journey. Thanks for sharing bro!

I want to fund it! Make a patreon with behind the scenes, progress-videos, maybe a podcast talking about the process of making the film!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude I love your channel. You seriously make super solid content. I make similar stuff on my channel. Lots of short films I put into film festivals and I’m even working on a feature film.

Keep on inspiring us my guy 🙏🏼

It’s definitely a big step to go into feature film scripts. I have only written short films, though my next one is going to be pushing 30-45 minutes. All your points are spot on. The biggest thing is to go with the flow of the story. Be careful with that, don’t let characters change willynilly without motivation, but let the story take you.

Congratulations, and thanks for all the advice. I also wrote a movie. It has been in a drawer for over a decade. When someone makes the movie you wrote, it will probably be different from the script you wrote. That's hard to deal with, but, the Director, will make the final decision about what will be on the screen. Also, the producers will have a say in it. If you want to see an example of this, look at the script Sylvester Stallone wrote for "Rocky", and compare it to what was filmed. They are quite different. The movie John Avildsen (Director) filmed was a powerful drama of two people, who fell in love and transformed: into a determined contender (Rocky) and a beautiful, well spoken and tough woman (Adrienne). It was far superior to Stallone's original script. But if you can deal with all the rejection, and more importantly the fact that someone will probably have a better vision than you of what your movie should be, then, terrific. After I wrote the movie that is in the drawer, I recognized it is similar to the 1984 movie, "Reckless", with some differences. Someday, maybe, after I am retired from my current job, it will go somewhere. Maybe... Good luck with your script.

I wrote my first movie, on 2nd May 2022 i have conceptualized it and today after tons of drafts, now I'm finally ready with the script for which I look through making a movie. Also writing never ends also you have completed your final draft in your brain writing is happening ❤❤

COOL , I really liked the tip number 9 , write it for me write what I would like to watch it. I LIKE IT. YEAH takes the pressure off , good one. Good luck on the funding and making your film. I look forward to it.

Awesome video! So did you write the first draft in free form? (Like with no format) Because I love to write initial ideas like that, it feels so much more natural. But how did you know you had a long enough script?

Are you going to direct or DP the film??? I’d REALLY love to see the process of bringing the film to fruition. I recently wrote a short film (I estimate 20 minutes in length) and have been working on the process of making it come to be. I’d love to see your process.

Your voice sounds like a worship leader talking to the audience in between songs. It's extremely soothing.

Awesome news. Looking forward to seeing this come to light and your vision realised. Also Sansa’s portrait makes this video way better btw.

I'm so proud of you Danny. You continue to inspire me and so many others and I want you to know, I love you bro. Keep Keep up and know you got our support ❤

Hey Danny... I think you are very talented.. do you ha e social media? Where are you located?

Good ideas. I can see most of them, but you had two that hadn't occured to me. Thanks. I've had a story in development for the last 35 years. Maybe I'll take it forward a step or two with some of your ideas. Best wishes for taking your next step. Will you be making it with friends(unpaid), or will you find an angel to fund your idea, and do it like a pro rather than an inde ? regards, Dan

And now you made it!!!! You’re the man Danny!

Stoked as always to follow along on your journey.

Oh man your my insperation fashion and set up vloger filmmaker man...i hope i can see you sometimes from indonesian🔥

Congratulations on completing your first screenplay Danny! Looking forward to following your journey with creating your first movie

Have you produced this film? I’d love to check it out 🤙🏼

I have been putting off starting to write down some ideas but you've really inspired me to take the first steps. Thank you so much.

Dark and funny coming of age story? "Perks of Being a Wallflower" vibe? Congratulations on finishing your screenplay. I have no doubt it will be a fantastic journey for you and incredibly rewarding.

Finished my first feature script a month ago. 113 pages! It took a year and a half! I get it. Congrats. 🙌🏾

The greatest things ever been written…or it’s…steaming hot garbage Great intro 👊🏼

I still remember very clearly how I felt when I finished my first feature length script. HUGE congrats :)

I'm so excited to know more about this film.

I love classical music for focusing. You're the man, already wrote your first feature. I could've sworn this was many months away 👋👋👋 you're unstoppable 💪

how many pages does it have the screenplay?

hell yeah dude!

Good Day Danny. If the idea is not embodied in a real project, this idea is worthless. For me, you are an example of a person who embodies an idea in completed product. I am grateful to you for that. I think we are all grateful to you. This is what distinguishes a successful person from a simple talker. There are so many on RU-vid spaces. Let's Go Ahead Danny !!! Best regards, Alex from Toronto.

Tell me how I can support you!!

Congratulations! I don't speak english but I see your videos and I hope understend always the idea, I love your work, I love your Channel, thanks 4 your creativity 💖 sorry if I wrote wrong, I'm do my best. Congrats again!

That was my approach to writing too...sipping a sparkling water...classical music...and just chuGGing away- and it Works GGRReat🙂

CONGRATULATIONS and GOOD LUCK from an internet stranger!

Very proud of you Danny 👍🏼

I congratulate you my friend, you are really successful !

Congrats Danny on your first movie's screenplay! You are one of the most down to earth people I am glad I found on RU-vid. I hope we get to meet one day to create. I kid you not. I've been watching your videos, I picked up my camera the other day and I couldn't stop filming around my neighborhood. I miss making videos for RU-vid. I got caught up in the traditional DP-ing and lost sight of where I was going. But like you said, "you need the experience." So thank you friend for truly opening my eyes and helping me find another path for me to explore. I'm writing something that's close to me as well for the good old 2022. Cheers buddy! Love you too!

Idea to fund your movie: Create NFTs for your followers to invest in your movie. (Create some cool benefits alongside the NFT's to incentivize a little more 😉) And we all buy your NFT's and become investors in your movie. You make the movie, we're all a part of it and share it when it's complete... a win on all levels. Blessings, brother, love your creativity!

Have you already uploaded the script to the US copyright office? Do it first, it's about $30, then you can send it to some people to read it, and get feedback, it's important too.

14:19 good advice. With 190K subscribers, I think we all know it will be pretty damn good bro. What is your target film length? 15 min? 30 min?

you are one of the rare Sony shooters (that ive seen) thats image quality is top notch bro. Your image has no harsh digital feel what so ever. soft roll of and all. Has the feel of Arri or Black Magic. do you shoot everything in S-Log everytime? what's your secret?

Will you be holding auditions? It’d be a dream come true to be apart of something of yours!

Congrats on the achievement Danny. Do you already have plan on how to funding the film?

Wish you good luck with all of the processes. I am sooooo impatient about the work and "the backstage & how I made" part of the movie, peace.

I’m so proud of you man! I can’t wait to see how you bring your vision to life. I haven’t finished my screenplays yet, however I’m currently documenting my journey and hope to finish and create them throughout 2022. I’ve found that setting aside time to write to matter what is what’s helped me. Establishing that discipline naturally makes your mind adapt creatively fairly quickly over time during that allocated period.

It's not just your voice that make all of your vids peacful, but these colors as well like oohhh mama look at these beautiful colors! Hot damn!

can't wait to see the process

Man you are so dope! I'm currently working on writing my first and longest film and these tips came in clutch lol

DAMN, DANNY!! How do you post exactly what I need to hear? I'm in the process of writing my own feature film that utilizes a popular archetype to engage the audience in unraveling the concept of Personal Identity. The 'Pen to Paper' tip was CRITICAL in allowing me to take back some of my power and flow with my streams of consciousness. I also love how you talk about 'WRITING WHAT YOU KNOW'. It connected with a screenwriting interview I recently watched where the gentlemen said, "You've done this before you can do it again. All you have to do is write one true sentence." Lastly, I believe we are similar in our understanding that we can, at times, be our own worst enemy or biggest fan. So for you to say "I am writing this movie for me," was exactly what I needed to hear. Not to make "the best movie ever," but to make a movie that is authentic to my love for acting, humanity, philosophy, consciousness, and self-love. In truth, we can only strive to express the best of ourselves, and that is all an audience looks for when they go to see a movie - an opportunity to marvel at the Subconscious projections of Humanity made Conscious once again 📽 Thank you Danny for offering your heART in this work! (Because I am persistent) Here Is My IMDB: www.imdb.com/name/nm9700456/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Cheers brother, let's heal the world! -Benett Sullivan

Great advice bud. I can’t wait to see what you come up with. Keep killing it homie!

0:53 me and my research paper at 3am

I love how down to earth you are. You just speak your heart, I feel like you're almost sat here telling me personally

do you need any PAs?!!?

Can’t wait to see this film

Matti says sup! (Also, so far I like your content. yay!)

🙌🏾🔥🔥🔥👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Tell us how you got it funded, when it gets funded. Great stuff man.

Can't wait Man!! I know it's going to be great!

Oh i forgot to say, if you’re looking for an actor hit me up dude!

Writing is probably one of the toughest things to do creatively; that & composing music lol! I mean seriously! The amount of shit I've started to write & inevitably get stuck or lose the fire to keep going it's insane! Like a week ago I picked up another notebook to do it all over again. Its a sickness ahahaha. Seriously be proud of yourself! Stoked to see what you did!

Save the Cat is great. The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron as well. And pretty much ANYTHING by the OG Stephen King.

Congratulations I can’t way till it come out

Thanks for this video man! You are my biggest inspiration, keep being you! You make the world a better place 🤙💙

Good luck, Danny! 👍😊

Congrats Danny! and I’m so stoked for you with your feature length script! Get it, broo

Love this video! I spent all of last year reading and writing and you hit on a lot of great advice!! Looking forward to what you came up with. For Stephen King's advice -- typically when writing, you're either a "pantser" or a "plotter" (or a mix of both). A "Pantser" is someone who likes to "fly by the seat of their pants" and just jump in without planning much AKA Stephen King. This can be great for stories that don't have complex plotlines weaving in and out. If you're managing multiple plots and world building, plotting might come in more handy. But it's also worth noting that Stephen King grew up writing and wrote endlessly for years before he published Carrie. So his understanding of story is so internalized that it's easier for him (and more fun) to just dive right in. Either way can work and sometimes it's a mix of both. At the end of the day, writing is rewriting. Also, glad you mentioned reading other screenplays! One of my favorite Stephen King quotes is, "If you don't have time to read, then you don't have the time (or the tools) to write."

I hope the trip will be everything you wish for!

Dude that was so good. Thanks for point me back in the direction of this video. In the middle of my own screenplay (been in the middle for 2 years now) and needed these tips to help frame my mind in a more positive way. You’re the man!

Coming of age is my favorite type of movie and you're my favorite creator. Hoping for perfection with this one sir. Don't let me down. I'm kidding. You could never let me down.

BIG MOVES!!!!!!

Everything about this. Finally got back around to writing after getting really in my own head about it all. Just feeling like I wouldn't be able to make the film happen the way I envisioned it. Had to let go of that.

I’m so happy to hear this news ✊🏽😄 I’ve produced, shot and distributed 9 feature films to date. Any information I can share, please don’t hesitate to ask Brother… Much love.

Placing bets that Danny is being meta with the black box hiding the title, and it'll actually be called "The Black Box" - opening odds 3:1 (I don't actually know how gambling works, but I wanted to make this joke)

That’s exciting best of luck! Now the really hard work begins!

Love how amazingly honest this is. I’ll buy a ticket 🎟 thanks for the tips! Great work as always.

This is awesome! I wrote my first feature along with a couple shorts. It's a great feeling and accomplishment. GOOD luck and congrats and hope we get to see it one day! I'm sure it will be epic!

Congrats on the printed script, Danny! I feel very proud of you! I am also in the process of writing a script for a mini documentary series, so many of the things you mentioned resonated with me. I wanted to share something I recently heard by another creative person: it is not You having the idea, it is the Idea having you. 💡 I really liked this change of perspective as it is very liberating to feel yourself as an instrument of something bigger than you rather than instrumentalize an idea for letting your footprint in the world. Enjoy the next steps! I am sure it is a though journey, but even more sure that you will succeed! 💪 Sending love to you, Ana and Sanza from Berlin!

Go for it brother! Step by step you're always moving forward. Proud of how far you've come and excited for more to come!

When your story starts to write itself it's such a beautiful and fun experience you can't force

Plot wist: All the Pages were white.

Love this Danny!

Beautiful. Thank you.

Very cool. Glad you are having a good experience. My first theatrical script was a six year journey for me. I actually continued to develop it as I performed it all over the place. And six years later, along with 250 endings later, and after literally writing every single day for that entire period of time, and I mean LITERALLY, writing every single day, trying to make that story the best story I could make, I had a finished script, and ran it Off Broadway for about five months, doing eight shows a week, and knew that this was the greatest creative experience of my life. At that time. I continue to have those experiences now. Keep up the awesome work. Your journey is inspirational.

are you going to run auditions at some point?