u/Traditional_Dish2623

hi! im thinking about making a found footage short film with two teen characters who have superpowers. trying to keep it low budget and practical no cgi expensive VFX since im only 14 with a camcorder lmao

what powers do you think would be the most achievable on low budget? things that could be faked with practical effects, camera tricks, simple editing, or just good acting.

thanks in advance!!

its been abt a year or two since i last creatively wrote of my own accord. i started thinking about movie writing since im a huge cinephile, so i create a messy logline/concept: Old man (born oct 11, 1949) with ptsd who lost boyfriend/hubby in UpStairs Lounge arson attack (June 24 1973) must take in a mentally ill and queer (transmasc and gay) young teen because (world conflict? apocolype? Figure out the why later) despite being a hermit. Stuck together, they reveal things about themselves that no one else knows. Takes place is late 00’s?

im very excited about it, but im struggling with the why the old man is taking in the kid in the first place. im stuck, and im scared i'll lose interest. i guess im asking for ways to come up with ideas instead of giving me specific ideas for this scenario, but any help is greatly apreciated.

tldr: I need an end-of-world(?) scenario that forces an isolated old man to take in a teenager he doesn't know so what kinds of events create that forced-proximity setup?

its been abt a year or two since i last creatively wrote of my own accord. i started thinking about movie writing since im a huge cinephile, so i create a messy logline/concept: Old man (born oct 11, 1949) with ptsd who lost boyfriend/hubby in UpStairs Lounge arson attack (June 24 1973) must take in a mentally ill and queer (transmasc and gay) young teen because (world conflict? apocolype? Figure out the why later) despite being a hermit. Stuck together, they reveal things about themselves that no one else knows. Takes place is late 00’s?

im very excited about it, but im struggling with the why the old man is taking in the kid in the first place. im stuck, and im scared i'll lose interest. i guess im asking for ways to come up with ideas instead of giving me specific ideas for this scenario, but any help is greatly apreciated.

my issue im having is that i wanna write a story about like grumpy old man must under unforseen circumstances become a father figure to a kid (think joel and ellie, hopper and eleven, etc) and im just wondering how i can add my own twist to it or make it not another copy. 

my issue im having is that i wanna write a story about like grumpy old man must under unforseen circumstances become a father figure to a kid (think joel and ellie, hopper and eleven, etc) and im just wondering how i can add my own twist to it. 

I had 854 MP3s with wrong year tags and didn't want to fix them one by one so I had Claude write me a script. im ashamed ik, but it works

It reads each MP3's artist, title, and album tags, looks up the correct year on MusicBrainz, and writes it back and only editing the year field. It matches on all three fields to avoid getting confused by songs with the same title, and pulls from the original recording date so you don't get remaster years.

Not perfect though. some songs it can't find, and occasionally it still writes a wrong year. It logs everything to a .txt file so you can fix stragglers manually.

Requires mutagen and musicbrainzngs (pip install mutagen musicbrainzngs). Change the FOLDER path at the top to yours and run it. ~15 min for 850 files due to MusicBrainz's rate limit.

i am not a coder; this was AI-generated. If you're a real dev and want to make a better version, please do and share!!!

import os
import time
import musicbrainzngs
from mutagen.id3 import ID3, TDRC
from mutagen.mp3 import MP3

musicbrainzngs.set_useragent("MP3YearFixer", "1.0", "your@email.com")

FOLDER = r"D:\music"
LOG_FILE = r"D:\music\fix_years_log.txt"

def get_year_from_mb(artist, title, album):
    try:
        result = musicbrainzngs.search_recordings(
            recording=title,
            artist=artist,
            release=album,
            limit=10
        )
        recordings = result.get("recording-list", [])

        best_year = None

        for rec in recordings:
            # Try to get the original first-release date from the recording itself
            first_release = rec.get("first-release-date", "")
            if first_release and len(first_release) >= 4:
                year = first_release[:4]
                if year.isdigit() and 1900 <= int(year) <= 2100:
                    if best_year is None or int(year) < int(best_year):
                        best_year = year
                        continue

            # Fall back to checking individual releases, filter by album name
            releases = rec.get("release-list", [])
            for release in releases:
                rel_title = release.get("title", "").lower()
                if album.lower() not in rel_title and rel_title not in album.lower():
                    continue
                date = release.get("date", "")
                if date and len(date) >= 4:
                    year = date[:4]
                    if year.isdigit() and 1900 <= int(year) <= 2100:
                        if best_year is None or int(year) < int(best_year):
                            best_year = year

        return best_year

    except Exception as e:
        return None

def fix_mp3_year(filepath):
    try:
        audio = MP3(filepath, ID3=ID3)
        tags = audio.tags
        if tags is None:
            return "NO_TAGS"

        artist = str(tags.get("TPE1", "")).strip()
        title  = str(tags.get("TIT2", "")).strip()
        album  = str(tags.get("TALB", "")).strip()

        if not artist or not title:
            return "MISSING_ARTIST_OR_TITLE"
        if not album:
            return "MISSING_ALBUM"

        year = get_year_from_mb(artist, title, album)
        if not year:
            return "NOT_FOUND"

        tags.add(TDRC(encoding=3, text=year))
        tags.save(filepath)
        return f"OK:{year}"

    except Exception as e:
        return f"ERROR:{e}"

def main():
    mp3_files = [
        os.path.join(FOLDER, f)
        for f in os.listdir(FOLDER)
        if f.lower().endswith(".mp3")
    ]

    total = len(mp3_files)
    print(f"Found {total} MP3 files in {FOLDER}\n")

    results = {"ok": 0, "not_found": 0, "error": 0}

    with open(LOG_FILE, "w", encoding="utf-8") as log:
        log.write(f"MP3 Year Fix Log — {total} files\n{'='*50}\n\n")

        for i, filepath in enumerate(mp3_files, 1):
            filename = os.path.basename(filepath)
            status = fix_mp3_year(filepath)

            if status.startswith("OK:"):
                year = status.split(":")[1]
                msg = f"[{i}/{total}] OK  {filename}  ->  {year}"
                results["ok"] += 1
            elif status == "NOT_FOUND":
                msg = f"[{i}/{total}] ?   {filename}  ->  not found on MusicBrainz"
                results["not_found"] += 1
            else:
                msg = f"[{i}/{total}] ERR {filename}  ->  {status}"
                results["error"] += 1

            print(msg)
            log.write(msg + "\n")

            time.sleep(1.1)

    summary = (
        f"\nDone. {results['ok']} updated, "
        f"{results['not_found']} not found, "
        f"{results['error']} errors.\n"
        f"Full log saved to: {LOG_FILE}"
    )
    print(summary)
    with open(LOG_FILE, "a", encoding="utf-8") as log:
        log.write(summary + "\n")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

by restarts i mean like i click uLaunchELF and then it says loading like it might work but then the screen goes black and the FMCB logo comes on and it loads back into the main menu

sorry if i explained it confusingly! Im very new at this. any help is appreciated!!

i think its because i messed with some files in ulaunchelf from a video i watched. in any case, is there a way to fix this or reset everything to it's default place? im very new at this and any help is appreciated.