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Film Courage: What’s your favorite part of the writing process?
Gavin Gaitan, Writer, Producer, and Director: Oh, man. The moment…it’s like bam, it hits and then you go and go and go and you lose track of time and it’s a euphoria because before that, it’s like a lot of this, what if I lost it?
What if it’s gone, what if I’ll never be able to write again?
Then all of a sudden when you’re just coming up with scenes out of thin air because you’ve wrote down an idea vaguely for a scene and then you thought well, wait a minute, actually that would be a great setup to do this other thing later.
Now you start writing this other thing.
Then you think like well, actually good motivation for that would be if I at the beginning of the film had them do this thing.
That blossoming, it’s euphoric.
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It’s incredible.
Then when you’re writing later the first time, you’re actually fleshing a scene out, that’s fun because then you just sit and envision yourself in the moment.
You play the scene out in like 11 different ways.
They say this thing and then they react this way.
Write that down.
Then okay, let me try it again.
They say this thing but then they react in a different way.
Okay, let me try that…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
About:
Gavin Gaitan is a Los Angeles-based feature film writer, producer, and director. He graduated from Cal State Long Beach in 2019 with a major in Narrative Film Production – Directing, and a minor in Political Science.
He has completed three feature films, which have played at festivals, won awards, and secured distribution. His most recent, Down Town, is now available to stream online.
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