I came across a good article about making movies cheaply. http://letsmakebetterfilms.hopeforfilm.com/2010/08/writing-for-a-low-budget-the-disappearance-of-alice-creed.html Since I got into making films, I have been very concerned about finding ways to do it without spending much money. I’ve talked about some of my thoughts on this in a couple of articles I’ve posted: Note: The original posts have been taken… Read Article →
Most people have heard of King Tutankhamun, buy fewer people know of his wife Ankhesenamun. When I first learned about her, I thought her life would make a good story for a movie. From Tutankhamun’s birth to his death, Ankhesenamun was by his side. With his death, her life became a tragedy. http://socyberty.com/history/the-tragedy-of-ankhesenamun/
It took thousands of years for people to discover the true nature of the Solar System. The road to understanding was not straight and along the way, some curious things happened. The search, after all, was by people, who can be quite curious. Note: The original post has been taken down. If you are interested… Read Article →
Whenever people talk about plagiarism and copyright, some one always points out that you can’t copyright and idea. What the author can copyright is how they express that idea in a story. Many years ago, I came across a good example of how two authors took the same idea and did very different things with… Read Article →
I published a short commentary on the movie Agora 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. After I saw the movie “Agora” I felt that, while I enjoyed the movie, it would a movie that… Read Article →
Moviola will show my film “My Next Film” during August 2010. These are the remaining show time and dates: August 15 12:23 pm Eastern Standard Time (11:23 am Mountain Daylight Time) August 18 6:08 pm Eastern Standard Time (5:08 pm Mountain Daylight Time) You can find out more at: If you do not get Moviola,… Read Article →
I just published a new short story: Hello, My Name is Bob https://www.dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/stories/hello-my-name-is-bob/ A young man, alone in a new city, tries an unusual tactic to meet someone new, but it doesn’t work out quite the way he thought it would. As I wrote it, I thought that it might be a good story to… Read Article →
Recently I tried out Google AdWords to see if I could get more people to view my movies. I ran an advertisement for Line of Taxis https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/filmlist/line-of-taxis/ for 30 days. Before I started, I signed up for Google Analytics to track how many people visited my site. It also gave me some interesting stats on… Read Article →
I just found out today that the Accessible Channel bought My Next Film for broadcast in February 2010. I don’t when it will be shown, or if it has already been shown. If I learn any more I will pass it along. Links The Accessible Channel http://www.theaccessiblechannel.com/ My Next Filmhttps://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/filmlist/my-next-film/
The other day I was reading Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, when I came to a passage that reminded me of the movie Last Year at Marienbad. I saw it years ago, or at least I think I did. Maybe it was someone else that saw it. Through some convoluted path that led me to… Read Article →
