Let's write a screenplay!

Yup, I have officially rallied my friends to take part in the best lottery ever - Writing and selling a screenplay!!!

yup... write out everything by hand first... old school.

The idea for the feature we're writing came to me in a dream... it was just enough of a fucked up premise I figured it would work as a kids CG animated flick.

I pitched it to some friends who were all REALLY excited about it, and then roped a couple of them in to help flesh it out.

So last night I headed to the best writing room in Vancouver - Boston Pizza - with Kevin Pavlovic and Jenn Taylor. My WIFE, Arlyn (still weird to say) will be helping as well, but couldn't make it out for this first meeting.

I'm probably going to document the creation of this script here, for shits and giggles... but not sure how much exactly...

So it has begun...

Film School Fridays with Kevin Smith...

I'll probably always be a big fan of Kevin Smith... There have definitely been times I've grown tired of him, but it's usually only for a short bit before I'm right back to listening to everything he has to say.

Anyway... he has a newish podcast out that's pretty damn cool and inspiring, even for someone like me who is now 16 years out of film school...

16 years? whatthefuck?

Anyways, Check this out if you're bored... it's a good listen...

Check it out here:

http://smodcast.com/channels/fsf/

The PEAK 102.7 Commercial contest....

So the idea behind this contest is that the Peak has moved station numbers from 100.5 to 102.7 FM and they want a commercial letting everyone know.

The reason for the move is because of their shitty signal. They're growing as a station, and now would like to be heard when you drive 5 minutes out of the downtown core.

We shot and edited this whole thing last night in 6 hours... Overall, I'm happy with it...



Thanks to Deb Copeland and family who let us use their house, and who's voice over ended up on the cutting room floor - not because she sucked, but because the whole thing worked better with nothing being said at all.

Deadline is today at 5:00... no idea when a winner is announced. Even runner up would be awesome... gotta pay off that wedding.

New Commercial contest!

Time to finally get back to working on stuff...

The day I got married I heard about another Peak Commercial contest I thought it would be due a few weeks from then, but it was only 6 days... so with only 1 day now til the deadline, we start shooting it tonight.
 

I thought I would have a couple of weeks to figure something out, but no. This idea needed to be something we could shoot quickly and with no special editing needed.

I'll probably post the finished commercial here tomorrow... cuz it has to be done and uploaded to Youtube tonight.

No pressure...

... and now I'm MARRIED... woah.

Yes this is my reason for lack of updates...

If you would like to check out a couple more of the professional pics from the wedding... you can see them at Crystal's site:

http://crystalmariesing.ca/2012/08/arlyn-ellerys-marathon-wedding/

Content coming soon... especially since there's another commercial contest coming up...

Awwww yeah.