“The Sheol Express,” the short film that I worked on as editor, is in the final stages of post production. The film looks fantastic (see the trailer here) but needs just a teensy bit more polish to achieve true nirvana. As such, the directors are doing all in their power to raise the money necessary [...]
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How Kirsten Dunst’s drunk friend stole my crayons…
I’m not going to get into how long it’s been since I last blogged, what the status of the project is now, yada yada. Instead, I’m going to tell you a story.
So, a few weeks ago I was in New York finalizing the edit of The Sheol Express with my two directors, Ryan and Mike [...]
Update Thingy
So it’s been a while since I updated. But I have one of those “excuse” things that I hear are all the rage with politicians: I and my family are moving. And not a small move, an across-the-country-sell-the-house-find-a-new-job-that-I-currently-have-no-leads-on move. That, to put it mildly, has messed with my headspace a bit, especially since our lovely [...]
Finished!
Project Echo’s first draft is done. Saturday was the deadline to finish but some important life stuff came up and I had to postpone my writing until the next day. So yesterday I hunkered down and wrote for over 7 hours, whipping out 20+ pages (which was more than I had anticipated), and around 8:30 [...]
Fitting Writing Into Your Life
I’m a busy man. Apart from my full time job, I also have a wife and two children, ages 2 and 1. I love them so much, cannot even begin to imagine what life would be like without them, but… they are a handful. They ask for a lot of time, naturally. I cherish those [...]
On the Importance of Loglines
Logline: (per Wikipedia) A brief summary of a movie, often providing both a synopsis of the film’s plot and an emotional “hook” to stimulate interest.
Sounds thrilling, don’t it? Log lines, however, can be crucial when it comes to building interest in your film, raising money for it, or marketing it once it’s done. They’re simple, [...]
Procrastination Enabler of the Week: Left 4 Dead Parties
Affectionately dubbed “Zombiegeddon-pocalypse-palooza-fest ‘09″, the shindig involved 4 televisions, 4 Xbox 360s, 4 copies of Left 4 Dead, and 14 participants. One team played the humans desperately trying to escape from the zombies, while the other team played the zombies desperately trying to feast on the humans. Good times all around.
Thursday and Friday afternoon were [...]
Not Being Afraid to Write Terrible First Drafts
Here are a few quotes from the excellent resource, The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, on writing first drafts. Since that’s exactly what I’m doing at the moment, I thought I would share.
I especially like writing the first draft, which I blaze through as fast as I can, without even stopping for spell checking [...]
Location Scouting Down Route 66
Last weekend, my 2 1/2 year old daughter and I took a trip down Route 66. The purpose was two-fold: first, spend some quality time with my little girl, and second, do some preliminary location scouting for Project Echo.
Normally you would not begin location scouting when you’re only 50 pages into your first draft. However, [...]
Interview With Doug Jones
I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Doug Jones (Hellboy 1 & 2, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Pan’s Labyrinth) when he was on the set of Ryan Dunlap’s Greyscale last year. The article I wrote (which a certain publication refused to pick up, mainly out of laziness, I believe) is now up [...]
