When I started to work on my ideas for a story featuring transportation planners, I didn’t think that it had been done before. I thought I should check before I go too far. So far I haven’t found anything quite like what I have in mind. I have found some movies and a novel that… Read Article →
I just published a new article: Transportation: Planners Versus Modellers. In it I talk about some of the conflicts that develop in transportation planning. I wrote this article because I want to make a movie set in the world of the transportation planner. They say to write what you know, and that was my life… Read Article →
The Canadian election led some people to my articles How Would Proportional Representation Change Canadian Politics? and Should Canadian Taxpayer’s Finance Political Parties? I chose those topics because I thought that would happen. Note: The original post about Taxpayer finance has been taken down. If you are interested in reading the article, let me know… Read Article →
Well, actually, it is an old film, but I never posted it on-line before. Extra Special Care 1990 (16mm) 4 minutes A crack team of scientists and technicians collaborate on a very important project. I made this as a member of a filmmaking class at The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Walter Sheppard urged me… Read Article →
2011 May 4 Monday last week, Stacy Parks of Film Specific put a post on her blog about blogging for filmmakers. I made a comment about some of the challenges of writing a blog and she suggested that if your film has a particular target audience, that posts about their interests would be a good… Read Article →
I just published a short article about the taxpayer subsidy for political parties in Canada. Note: The original post has been taken down. If you are interested in reading the article, let me know and I can post it on this website. I had thought that there was only the per-vote subsidy, which Stephen Harper… Read Article →
I know I need to make the characters in my stories more compelling. I have read lot of advice on how to do that, but I haven’t found much of it very helpful. It seems to me that most of what I read assumes that you already have an intuitive understanding of what makes people… Read Article →
All that I’ve read about the heroes you create for your stories say they have to be proactive. That is, they need to push the story forward. The problem I’ve had with my heroes is that I want to focus on people who are unsure of themselves. While they may not be overtly in conflict,… Read Article →
Recently I chatted briefly with a much younger person about mash ups. I’d heard the term, but never gave it much thought. While there is a range of mash-ups, they all involve the recombination of pre-existing material into something new. I’m a bit slow sometimes, so I only just realized I had a similar idea… Read Article →
I read recently of a plan to make a movie from H. P. Lovecraft’s story At the Mountains of Madness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness#Film Some years ago I mulled over the story as a possible film. It was a quite unrealistic goal for me, but it was a useful and enjoyable exercise. Several of his stories are structured… Read Article →
