no devil lived on

A Simple Update

Not much to report on the movie front. Since my last post I have joined Netflix, and have rented a slew of movies in the meantime. Unfortunately, my movie watching schedule willl be unduely interrupted now that college has started back up. I've got my ass in quite a sling here getting registered, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'm not completely screwed yet.

I haven't really dug into 5 C's of Cinematography or Painting With Light yet. They're both very technical books, and have tricks and suggestions for certain situations, so it's not really practical until I start to shoot something.

I recently came up with some themes that I want to insert into my stories, well my comedic stories at least. It's sort of a parallell to Oscar Wilde, only with my own personal little twists. I odn't particularly want to give it away because, even though no one is reading this blog other than people I know, I'm not going to let anyone cash in on any of my brainstorms but me, dammit!!! Some pro writer could be randomly parusing the internet and run into my blog and BAM! he makes a million bucks on my serendipity. I'm too greedy to let that happen.

One of my friends from some other online community that shall remain nameless is a small time wannabe filmmaker. He recently updated his page and said that production on his latest movie was going to be delayed and that he was working on another idea with a friend of his to produce it for about 30,000 GBP ($65,000)!!! Now I've seen this kid's stuff. Amusing, but amateurish at best. I don't want to downtalk him, but I'm very skeptical that he knows what he's doing with a camera. I know I certainly wouldn't give him any money to film my wedding, let alone something that came out of his imagination. He says that he just wants to pay his actors and his crew, but geez ... I know I wouldn't want to be him when the investors want their money back.

posted by bumbletbw @ 8:03 PM