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.

I'm 36!

I know I say this every year... but THIS year let's make it count!

As I write this I'm listening to Bruce Timm talking about developing Batman for the WB... What am I doing with myself!?!

Well I'm gearing up like crazy for a bunch of personal projects... Just been a bit distracted with the wedding...

Regular updates to begin...

I couldn't love this more...

This has been making the internet rounds, so it's likely you've seen it SOMEWHERE else before here, but I'm going to post it anyway simply because I love it. A guy has a conversation with his 12 year old self...




 I must have watched this at LEAST... 4 times now... Which doesn't sound like much, but it's actually a chore for me to get through most Youtube vids... so there you go.

There was a recent episode of "The New Girl" where two of the characters played a video for one other character that he had recorded several years earlier, warning him about getting back together with an ex girlfriend (does that make sense? Try to keep up...)

Anyway, it was a brilliant idea, and one I wanted to rip off on "Kneel Before Pod"... have Kev, John and I talk to ourselves in the future... Something we could look back on years later.

Then this vid comes out with a guy who did it already, starting 20 years ago.

Do we bother?

If there's still a youtube 20 years from now, It's ALL going to be people talking to themselves from the past.

Ah well... Bravo to this guy.

 As they say... "Today, you win the internets"

"Sorkinisms"

I'm not the biggest Aaron Sorkin follower. I've never watched the West Wing, and don't know half the shows that are seen in this clip. That said, I'm a huge fan of "The Social Network" and think it's one of the best written films I've seen in years.

Today I watched this vid (embedded below) that shows how much of Sorkin's dialogue is regurgitated from project to project. In know way do I show this to say "Ha... that's shitty", but instead post it to say "Ha... if Sorkin can regurgitate dialogue in his scripts, then surely a lowly wannabe like me can get away with it as well!"



What show is that with Nate from Six Feet Under?! That guys awesome.