http://www.deviantpictures.com/trippinmovie Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:34:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As those in our household gussied up, took silly photos, and pranced around the apartment all bubbly, girlie-like, I apologized, “I know, I’m being silly."  Kenny diplomatically responded, "Not at all.  This is your Superbowl.”  He’s right.  The Oscars ARE my Superbowl.  And they matter, even when my teams aren’t ... http://www.deviantpictures.com/trippinmovie/why-the-oscars-matter/ Some unintentional comic relief on our past sets has resulted from people trying to interpret my pitiful attempts at storyboards.  My inability to draw is beyond mere incompetence, it’s positively absurd.  Fortunately, this will not be an issue on Dolores.  I had our first storyboard session with our wonderful new ... http://www.deviantpictures.com/trippinmovie/storyboarding-in-paradise/ To answer a couple questions that keep coming up, yes, that’s Agustin talking about monkeys on Animal Planet, yes, I know I’m dirty dancing in the name of “art” on youtube with a stunning redheaded belly dancer, and no, I will not give you her phone number (unless you’re looking ... http://www.deviantpictures.com/trippinmovie/when-good-monkeys-go-bad/ ...is a cool tune that saved my world this morning (link below).  See,  I started working on the new screenplay today.  The idea was actually spawned back in September when Kenny and I were having our  Big Bear Lake Fest adventure. We found this super cool antique mart that inspired ... http://www.deviantpictures.com/trippinmovie/dude-wheres-my-skin/ As any writer knows, “Boy meets Girl, Boy and Girl fall in love, Boy and Girl live happily ever after” does not exactly make for riveting cinema.  There must be stakes and those stakes must be high.  The protagonist needs to want something bad, and that goal or dream needs ... http://www.deviantpictures.com/trippinmovie/raising-the-stakes-a-mortality-tale/ The manager at our favorite liquor store offered us a nice bottle of wine for a ridiculously low price warning us that about 1 in 4 of the bottles had bad corks, so it was sort of a gamble.  He went on to explain how one must always have a ... http://www.deviantpictures.com/trippinmovie/a-must-see-film/ Do all writers go through this, or is it just me…?   You knock out a rough draft of a script, tinker with it a bit and think , “Hey, I’m almost there!" only to return to it a week later with fresh eyes and wonder, “Egads!  Who wrote this crap ... http://www.deviantpictures.com/trippinmovie/spidey-sense-for-screenwriters/ Once again, I’ve been asked by a filmmaking peer what the value of attending film fests is.  As I responded to his e-mail, it dawned on me how nearly everything going on in my life right now is directly related to my having attended festivals:  my projects, my friends, my ... http://www.deviantpictures.com/trippinmovie/why-filmmakers-should-go-to-fests%e2%80%a6/ Hello again, Outside World!  How’s it been out here? I just came off of a serious writing bender and, Man, is my head a mess.  First drafts come so easy to me.  I can frequently knock out a feature working a few hours every morning in about five days.  Rewrites are ... http://www.deviantpictures.com/trippinmovie/back-from-the-trenches/ Life is so unpredictable.  This past month I’d transitioned from an internationally airborn film fest gypsy to a grounded, focused stay-at-home writer.  I was seriously digging it, too.  Little did I know how short-lived this new era would be... I never would have guessed.  For 3 weeks I had a routine ... http://www.deviantpictures.com/trippinmovie/falling-in-love-again%e2%80%a6/