How to Start a Rock Band

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· Get a guitar or piano and learn some basic chords. The basics that every beginning musician should know are G, C, and D or A, E,. You can learn on any guitar; electric or acoustic. Learn those chords and a whole world of rock music opens up to you. Learn a few a more and you can play almost anything.

· Don't forget, your instrument of choice doesn't have to be a guitar - it can be a keyboard, bass, drums - or just your voice!

· Make a place to play. Most great bands start out in the garage. Get some fans to circulate the air if you live in a hot area. Another idea, would be to rent a storage shed for your band to play, and store your gear.

· Get an electric guitar and amp.

· Get at least one microphone, and a stand to go with it. Playing songs is a lot more fun when someone's singing!

· Get a band name and image . Decide what kind of band you want to be . Rock, Pop, Punk or whatever. You have to decide which one to start creating your band .

· Recruit your personnel. A trio or a four man group is an excellent way to start - electric guitar, a drummer, and a bass player (possibly a keyboardist as well). There are tons of new players out there dying for people to play with. Websites such as virtualrockband.com even allows you to search for musicians living near you.

· Create a set list. You and your band mates will want to agree on some songs that you all like and want to play. For starters, five songs is a good number.

· Learn the chords and words to those songs! The Internet is full of lyrics and chords for your favorite songs. Just do a Google search giving the name of the song and the words lyrics or chords. Try http://www.chordie.com for chords. If you're ambitious, sit down with a recording and try to pick out the chords yourself by ear. There's no better ear-training in the world.

· Now put it all together. Gather your band mates and their equipment in your practice room and run through your five songs. You might want to bring printouts of the chords and lyrics.

· You're not quite ready to perform yet! Your band needs a sweet name. See the tips sections for some suggestions.

· Organize a party with friends and family where you can perform your songs and show off how much your new band rocks!

· Spread your name, talk with other people about the band and create a simple website. If you are not quite that tech savvy, MySpace offers a free hosting service for bands. Invite all of your friends to join the friends list and post songs on there when you record something.

· And remember that no matter what!!!! Do not give up...People may try to drag you down and say your playing sucks, but that's when you look them in the face, just keep on playing and have fun!

How to Write a Script for a Movie

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Think you're the next Upendra or Shankar Nag orWilliam Shakespeare or possibly Charlie Kaufman? To find out, you'll have to write a script to showcase your talents. Here are a few easy steps to get you started.

1. Get your story straight. Come up with a specific idea of what you want to happen in the play or movie. Create the premise and purpose of that story. What are the circumstances and what are the goals of the story and main characters involved?

2. Your characters will drive the action on the stage or screen, so make sure you make them interesting and innovative. It may not be necessary for you to develop all of the characters right away, but some writers need to have everything set out before they can begin working. Find your method and work with it.

3. Create an outline or treatment. Before you begin actually writing dialogue and script, it might help to create a basic roadmap of what will happen in your story. Sketch out a general plan and envision how events will unfold. This should be told in the third-person.

4. Maintain your style. Remember, scripts are all about action and dialogue. Make sure your characters speak realistically, and try not to mix styles of speech and vocabulary too much unless you are going for a certain effect.

5. Ensure that different characters have their own 'voice' based on their background, which will affect their word choices and dialect. This will stop your characters from blending into one another.

6. Set the scene. Don't forget to include important details such as time of day, setting, and actions of the characters in the scene. These are nearly as important as the dialogue that occurs.

7. Format your writing. Skip lines between one character speaking and a different one speaking, especially if you're handwriting it. This will enable those reading the script to distinguish between speakers more easily, and also allow space for notes, or you could just get a screen writing program.

8. Edit yourself. Continually revise your writing, and, if possible, show the script to a friend or adviser who has writing experience and can critique and improve the script as needed. You may also write your script in various ways, introducing people and even in brackets telling the reader what is happening that the narrator is not reading. I.e.) Jeff walks off the stage or John closes the door behind him.

Kannada Film Industry Needs Improvment

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See i think a new confident movies takes much time, energy, money. and producers will not be so sure whether it really works. so they prefer remakes or freemakes. i think v definitely should support the pure original people in making own movies..

i like to share a very few things that i know, i studied..

Directing a good movie is as hard as marketing.. i believe and one more thing is that “somebodies child we cant accept”..means while directing a movie the director will have been visualising it.. and other man cant visualises differently. if u have a stuff and confidence in making movie, definitely better have the creativity mind, direction and find a producer whom u could make him to believe u and direct it. the real best way..
make a movie based on true story or based on novels which is having good story in it.

So that people can feel the character in that movie.

Decide the story(theme) and whose point of view u r narrating the story eg: heroine point of view or hero point of view or director point of view or audiance point of view. then decide the main protogonist(obviously, u need to convince him/her). this process can be done once story is written but having a main protogonist in mind would become easy to write a story, dialogues according to his caliber.
then make a one line, i.e, how many scenes and time u need to tell ur story effectively.
now find a narration style now start narrating it. Think of time lapse(study more and more films) write the appropriate dialogues to the approprite characters, audiance should feel it.. should be natural.

If possible and the character needs a particular body language or a particular manarism dont avoid.first be an audiance and feel ur story.. if u r satisfied. go ahead. study the industry before u enter. study the person whom u r approaching. once u r confident u can reveal ur creativity direction to that person.