During the last part of my wife’s illness I dropped all my writing and filmmaking projects. I want to get back to them now. It isn’t just that I want to work on them; I feel that I need something to focus on now that she is gone. Retrospective One project I want to do… Read Article →
Posts Tagged: Transportation Planning
I redid a poster that I have on a wall in one scene of “The Barrier” this week. The poster isn’t a big element of the story, but it is a detail that some people might find distracting if it doesn’t look right. In the open house scene Arthur stands in front of a poster… Read Article →
I restarted my rewrite of “The Barrier” this week. My family responsibilities took precedence over my movie for the last few weeks. It had been a while since I looked at the rewrite, and I found that I had changed my mind about what I wanted to go with it. Most of the effort I… Read Article →
There is scene in “The Barrier” where two characters watch a traffic simulation. I wasn’t happy with the quality of the animation I did for the simulation, so this week I created a replacement for the next version of “The Barrier”. When I did the previous version of “The Barrier” I used MS PowerPoint to… Read Article →
I made progress on my rewrite of “The Barrier”, my transportation planning movie. The script is matched to the movie now. I started to work on the revisions to the script. Conform Script to Current Movie I conformed the script to match the caption file I created for the movie when I first released it…. Read Article →
One of the problems some viewers had with “The Barrier” was the amount of transportation planning jargon I used. I think I’ve come up with a way to deal with that. I also moved forward with my recreation of the script and creation of new subtitles. Jargon in “The Barrier” Some people commented that they… Read Article →
I continued to match the script to the movie this week and I had some more thoughts on the where I go next with the project. Match the Script to the Movie The script I had was done before I finished the movie. I knew it wouldn’t match exactly, so before I could start to… Read Article →
I’ve procrastinated on “The Barrier”, my transportation planning movie, for a long time. This week I actually did something. I began to prepare a new version of the script that conforms to the movie as it currently stands. Once I have a baseline script, I can start to decide what changes I want to make…. Read Article →
I’ve given some more thought to the next, and hopefully final, version of “The Barrier”. From that I developed a sort of to-do list. I have a version of “The Barrier”, my transportation planner movie, posted now. (See https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/filmlist/the-barrier/). I am not totally happy with this version and want to do a revised version before… Read Article →
A few weeks ago I wrote about my plans for my next project. I had decided my next project would be my Agatha Christie in Egypt video. Since then I got some encouragement to do a final version of “The Barrier”. That got me to have another look at it. Two Barriers There were two… Read Article →
