I'm in pre-production for a series of short films about a bounty hunter/assassin of half Chinese/half Italian descent. The character could be an anime character because of how he looks and acts. I drew a sketch, which basically involves a guy with black clad clothes, a long black duster trench coat, a chinese straw hat (think raiden of Mortal Kombat), and a kitana. He's got an adversion to guns. He also remains nameless. The plot is basically that on his last job he ends up getting a price put on his head in a giant setup. It's cliche, but I'm hoping to finish six of them at around 15/20 minutes each and releasing them as either one big movie or just as a disc with six segments on it.

Here's where I'm torn. I've got this 80something page script written, I feel it's my best work yet. I pay a little homage here and there, the plot is cliche, but I think this movie has the possibility of being my best work yet. Do I direct six short films (break my script into six parts) or do I just shoot the movie as a whole and not even concern myself with the short films? I've directed a bunch of short films, choreographed around a dozen decent or better fight scenes, and I think I'm ready to do a full length. I think it's a personal thing for me, but I'm curious as to what you guys think.

I say, go for the full length version...you gotta start somewhere. If nothing else, this could be a valuable learning experience on what or what NOT to do when it comes to your next full length script. Best of luck with it!

Yes i would say go for the feature leangth. You've had experience with shorts, so take a chance and do a feature. Anyways, it would most likely be more efficient to shoot it as a whole, instead of the six parts. Also if you like the little episode thing, you could still put it in episode format, just put them in sequence to make a feature (i.e. QT, Kill Bill). But it would most likely be best to shoot them all at the same time. Well hope I helped a little.

I actually had this same problem a bit back. I ended up deciding to write the "episodes" as one big script and break them up later in post. I have not finished the script yet, but it seems to be coming along better than before when I was writing shorter "episode-like" scripts.

Anyways good luck on the project man!