I feel like the first post of a blog should be momentous somehow. I'm not sure how, really. I mean, I have an LJ blog so how is this different? I'm not sure yet either. Mainly, I wanted to have a clearing house and storage of all the cool film-related glab that I come across - from films I like to short films I find to scripts or films I'm working on.
Also Squid...'cause they're awesome - what with the tentacles and the bio luminescence and the hey hey hey they're crushing me and dragging me down to the icy depths. I've been in love with movies since the first time I saw Darth Vader step through the smoking hatch on the Blockade Runner. I was 3 at the time and it was probably one of my first experiences in a movie theatre. I don't remember much about that film, but I remember that image...burned indelible on my adolescent retinas. With Star Wars I only have flashes of that initial showing...3 years later I remember what the theatre that was playing Empire *looked* like. And what the hell was up with that ending?! A 6 year old brain is not equipped with the facilities to understand that it has to wait 3 more years to find out what happens to Han. 3 years?! That's half my lifetime!! Unfortunately, fists waved dramatically towards the heavens seem to have just as much effect when you're 6 as 36 (probably made the 6 year old feel better though)
And Cephalopods? Well that's another story. I can't really explain from where my fascination with squids came. (FYI singular species plural is squid, multiple species plural is squids) Maybe it's from the fact I've always wanted a prehensile tail. Or the fact that as a wee pup Monstro from Pinocchio seriously freaked me out. That film was Not Okay for small children. Giant Squid...Sperm Whale...2 beasts enter....etc etc
Note to self:
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I had given myself until July to figure out if I wanted to focus on shooting another film or working on a script. The beginning of this year really burnt me out working on 2 docs and then class and True/False right in the middle. I finished one of them and the other I had to give up . Both docs suffered because I over-extended myself. So I'm scaling back. I had been trying to decide what to focus on when I came across a blog post that I thought was rather genius. Give yourself 2 choices to every decision regarding what to tackle, either no, or hellyeah.
While there are certainly benefits to shooting the film and reasons why I'd like to shoot it soon (one being the age of the subject) I won't be doing myself or the film any favors by working on it without 100% effort. And frankly, I just don't have that sort of enthusiasm right now. However, writing in general is very exciting, partially because I haven't had time to do much of it this year, but also 'cause I've seen a couple good movies recently and then Inception knocked my socks off and got me primed for storytelling. So, I'll post more on the blog to get me going and also work on a script either with Dave or by myself. Dave agreed back in January before I became overwhelmed, so we'll see if he's up for it again.
I'm also going to try and link to or post things of interest in a film vein (and not just a dancing monkey vein) (although tell me that wasn't interesting) so we'll lead off with a clip Scott Meyers posted on his blog Go Into The Story
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