I worked on my film Contingency most of the week. Some of the shots I had in the film were not as good as I would have liked, so reshot them. During the first part of the week, I set up or arranged the images I needed. Wednesday I went downtown to pick up a… Read Article →
I have an old Super 8/Regular 8 movie projector that hasn’t worked for so long I don’t remember when it stopped working. I decided to see if I could get it to work again. I transferred some old home movies to video 28 years ago, but I’m not happy with the quality of the video… Read Article →
Both Contingency and Somedays were accepted to the $100 Film Festival this week. I felt good about that. I’m sure that they accepted the films on the merits and it had nothing to do with my starting the festival. I decided to withdraw Somedays because I was so unhappy with the image quality. I can… Read Article →
I made some good progress on Contingency this week. It was slow going because of my back and arm pain. I’ve collected all the shots I need for the film. I still need to trim a couple shots, but the rest are ready. I found some alternative clips that I think I may want to… Read Article →
I slipped on some ice on January 5 and that really threw a spanner into the works as far as my film goes. Didn’t do much for my arm and back either. I cracked a bone in my arm and a rib. Recovery has been and will be slow. They say it could be six… Read Article →
Last week I went over what I did last year. Now it is time to look at what I’ll try to do in 2012. Make Better Use of My Time Time and again I find myself with too many projects on the go, and I can’t make headway on any of them. This year I… Read Article →
At the start of 2011 I did a post about My Goals for 2011. Before I do the same for 2012, I wanted to look at how I did last year. Feature Scripts A year ago I decided that one goal in 2011 I would rewrite the three scripts I did in 2010 and write… Read Article →
All the advice I’ve seen on writing recommend that you develop a “back story” for your characters. The back story is what happens to the character right up until the story starts. This is very valuable to the writer when they create the character. What occurred to me was that I never heard anyone talk… Read Article →
I started to rethink my short story The Gladstone Barrier this week. I came up with several ideas that I think I can use to develop it into a longer and, hopefully, better story. Description In some of my stories, I do have a lot of description of the people and the locations, but have… Read Article →
This week was the dead line for entries into next year’s $100 Film Festival. I submitted my two films just in time. Somedays . . . is a short one-gag film. Contingency runs longer and is an experimental film about the history of the $100 Film Festival. I hope they are accepted. I still have… Read Article →
