"The Reunion" is Online; New Film in Works
Within a week of the last post! Not too bad.
The original purpose of this blog was to chronicle the process of writing, producing, and polishing the short film The Reunion of Amilia Marbleberry and Marcy Stills. After the endless nights of filming, and the arduous post production process, we sent the film off to a number of film festivals. We were accepted into two of them, and were honored to win the Jury Award for Best Feature at NFFTY '09. Now, the film is up on YouTube and ready for viewing.
It has been a long, difficult, and very rewarding process. I'm very proud of all the work that everyone did on this project, and I hope that you enjoy it.
Since then I've worked on a couple other projects, like The Royal We Music Video, and now I'm writing what should become the next film project that we all take on. Besides the screenwriting school I attended in Seattle, I've also been digging in to the major books on screenwriting, Story by Robert McKee, and Screenplay by Syd Field. In Seattle I was taught by some really talented people that I have a lot of respect for, and I've now conceded that I can't expect to become as good as them or better without reading all that they've read, seeing all that they've seen.
It takes a concerted effort and dedicated work to get better.
And so I've also been reading a number of screenplays (The Royal Tenenbaums, A Serious Man, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and An Education, to name a few), as well as a few plays that Scott Marden (Andrew Stills in The Reunion) recommended to me. Those who know me know that reading is not traditionally a thing I'm a fan of--in fact I hadn't read a book recreationally since the beginning of high school.
But now all that is changed, and I'm more motivated than ever to learn all I can about the storytelling process. This is all to say that I am expecting this next project to be one of our best projects yet.
Thanks for reading; next week maybe I'll talk about some details, as well as introduce you to a few new friends that I met down in LA that are sure to be new cast members on this TV show called life. Until then!
~Michael
The original purpose of this blog was to chronicle the process of writing, producing, and polishing the short film The Reunion of Amilia Marbleberry and Marcy Stills. After the endless nights of filming, and the arduous post production process, we sent the film off to a number of film festivals. We were accepted into two of them, and were honored to win the Jury Award for Best Feature at NFFTY '09. Now, the film is up on YouTube and ready for viewing.
It has been a long, difficult, and very rewarding process. I'm very proud of all the work that everyone did on this project, and I hope that you enjoy it.
Since then I've worked on a couple other projects, like The Royal We Music Video, and now I'm writing what should become the next film project that we all take on. Besides the screenwriting school I attended in Seattle, I've also been digging in to the major books on screenwriting, Story by Robert McKee, and Screenplay by Syd Field. In Seattle I was taught by some really talented people that I have a lot of respect for, and I've now conceded that I can't expect to become as good as them or better without reading all that they've read, seeing all that they've seen.
It takes a concerted effort and dedicated work to get better.
And so I've also been reading a number of screenplays (The Royal Tenenbaums, A Serious Man, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and An Education, to name a few), as well as a few plays that Scott Marden (Andrew Stills in The Reunion) recommended to me. Those who know me know that reading is not traditionally a thing I'm a fan of--in fact I hadn't read a book recreationally since the beginning of high school.
But now all that is changed, and I'm more motivated than ever to learn all I can about the storytelling process. This is all to say that I am expecting this next project to be one of our best projects yet.
Thanks for reading; next week maybe I'll talk about some details, as well as introduce you to a few new friends that I met down in LA that are sure to be new cast members on this TV show called life. Until then!
~Michael
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