As I contemplate some new projects, I’ve thought about how to develop characters. I’ve thought about this before, but it never hurts to revisit my approach. Character Tags I’ve found Lester Dent’s formula helped me a lot with my writing. I added his article to one of my earlier posts: https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/the-lester-dent-master-fiction-plot-test-drive/ In his article, Lester… Read Article →
Posts Tagged: Xtranormal
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 →
I downloaded and tried out a trial version of nawmalMAKE, the replacement for Xtranormal. I wanted to see if I could use it to do a final version of “The Barrier”. I had planned to leave any evaluation of nawmalMAKE until later when I was ready to redo “The Barrier”. This week I got a… Read Article →
I used Xtranormal to make “The Barrier”, but was unable to properly finish the movie because the company shut down before I could finish it. Now a new company, Nawmal, is releasing software based on Xtranormal. Maybe I can now finished my movie. Nawmal (http://www.nawmal.com/) sent me an e-mail this week that the official release… Read Article →
My wife was in the hospital from mid December until a week ago. I dropped all of my other activities to help her. Now that she is home, I think I can get back to my creative projects. Wife’s Health When my wife went into the hospital last December, my top priority was to help… Read Article →
