I submitted my short story Pete’s Plan to Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine a few weeks ago. This week they sent me a note to say, “it does not suit the needs of the magazine at this time”. I was disappointed, but people were supportive. The magazine encouraged me to submit the story elsewhere. I plan… Read Article →
Posts By: James Beattie Morison
I worked on my film “Some Days . . .” this week. I want to submit it for the 2013 Hundred Dollar Film Festival. http://100dollarfilmfestival.org/ I originally did the film for last year’s festival, but I wasn’t happy with the image quality, so I withdrew it. I hope I get it right this time. I… Read Article →
I wanted to do something more to promote my video Make ’ em Squirm: The Sharkbiter Way video. A couple months ago, I split it up into a dozen or so shorter segments and posted them on YouTube. That didn’t generate the kind of interest I had hoped for. This week I decided to pull… Read Article →
Now that I have finished and posted the video version of Contingency, I’m at a bit of a loss as to what to do next. I’ve got many projects I want to finish. If you have some time, I would like to hear your opinion. When I wrote my New Years Blog, I planned to… Read Article →
I finally got my film Contingency posted on-line. Please have a look at it and let me know what you think. I made Contingency for the twentieth $100 Film Festival in 2012. It is a contemplation of how the festival came about. The film won the Best of Alberta Award at the festival. It is… Read Article →
I worked on Contingency this week, but didn’t accomplish as much as I had hoped. I reviewed the video again. I had thought I would need to tweak the images somewhat, but I was happy with the way it already was. I think I might adjust the contrast on a couple of shots. Some of… Read Article →
I completed the conversion of the images I captured for “Contingency” into video files this week. It really was painful. I got about half the images done the week before. For some reason, the last half took more time. I found the technique of overlaying a negative of one image worked well. It was easy… Read Article →
My conversion of Contingency to video moved ahead this week. I have about half of the images converted to video now. I had to overcome a few snags. The whole film runs a bit over 3,800 frames, but since I already have video of some of the shots, I didn’t need to transfer all of… Read Article →
I took another step forward on Contingency this week. I used an optical printer to digitize the images from the film so I could create a video of the film. I will reconstruct a video from the images next. It took me a couple of days down at the CSIF to get the images digitized…. Read Article →
Most of the work I’ve done has been in short forms (short films, short stories or short articles), but I want to move to longer form works. It has been difficult, but I have made some progress. I’ve done four feature length scripts and started a couple of novelettes, but I didn’t feel I really… Read Article →
