Film

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I love films and think I love working on them even more than I love writing prose. At present I’m a dabbler, but I’d like to do more film work in future.

At present I’ve had two minor film successes. One was the screenplay for Mike Fox’s short film A Lesser Sort of War . The other was my no budget feature film , the first major production from Rec Room Movies.

Rec Room Movies

Ever since Grade 5 I’d wanted to make a movie. Back in 1979 the only option was Super 8, and that was really no option at all, so I was out of luck. But today, with cheap HD video cameras that shoot in 24 p, anyone can be a filmmaker! If you can tell a story, that is.

Just for fun, in the long dull winter of 2007, I took my little SD Canon camcorder and started making a series of short films with family members as the “actors.” Each film celebrated a different genre, and all were shot against a makeshift green screen (a St Patrick’s Day table cloth) in my rec room. Just for fun, I called my film “company” Rec Room Movies. I think we made about twenty short films on both SD and HD video.

Making a No Budget Movie

Make a No Budget Movie: Chapter One

The year was 1978. I was ten years old. Star Wars had just come out, and the original Battlestar Galactica had aired on TV. I was inspired. I wanted to make my own movie, my own space opera. So I started. I wrote an entire script, in storyboard form, since a movie starts with a script, with a story – that much I knew. Next I cast my friends in the various roles. They were agreeable, though a little skeptical. Next I began to sort out wardrobe and locations.

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I Am a Lousy Blogger

I haven't written a blog post since March 2013. This is not for lack of subject matter, but more that I tend to revise and revise my posts until they say exactly what I want, and that takes time. So I haven't had anything I wanted to say so badly that I made time for it. Even this simple paragraph seems an imposition: I've erased it and restarted about six times now! Most of my writing time these days (in fact, since March 2013) has gone to short stories.