Friday, March 25, 2005

Checklist of wooden pieces

Elements To Be Designed In Wood:

SETS:

1. ________ Tree w/ prologue.

2. ___X____ Original house.

3. ________ Shore break

4. ________ Tidal Wave

5. ________ Land

6. ________ Destroyed house.

7. ___X____ Daytime background – Sunshine

8. ___X____ Rebuilt house

9. ________ Bedroom back wall

a. ___X____ Guy sleeping in bed.
b. ___X____ Empty bed.

10. ________ Bedroom doorway

11. __X_____ Living room walls including doorways

a. ___X____ Table
b. ___X____ Vase
c. ___X____ Flowers
d. ___X____ Television

12. ________ Doors for various doorways


CHARACTERS:

1. ___X____ Thomas (facing forward)

2. ________ Thomas (looking sideways)

3. ___X____ Thomas (back of head)

4. ___X____ Night Marcher Leader (side view)

5. ________ Night Marcher Leader (facing forward)

6. ________ Night Marcher Leader (rear view)

7. ________ Night Marcher (side view)

8. ________ Night Marcher (forward facing)

9. ________ Night Marcher (back view)

Thursday, March 24, 2005

Thursday night movie series...

As I do every Thursday (or just about), I went to the movies on 34th Street since I get in free. This week I saw The Ring 2. Let me start by saying, I saw the first one and loved every terrifying second of it. However I found myself falling asleep several times during the dull sequel. It was more of a suspense thriller than a horror flick, with very few horror in the entire film. They had a great story to work from then, unfortunately they didn't this time.

Monday, March 21, 2005

What a Jackass!

After seeing those great indie films I flip on Showtime and Jackass: The Movie is on. I can't believe I hadn't seen it before. It is classic gross humor.

I have been watching a lot of other television in the past week..for instance

SNL...great introduction by host Ashton Kutcher with a guest appearance by Demi Moore done up to look extra extra old and make fun of their relationship.

Remarkable films...

Today I continued my quest of watching Sundance Film Fest winning films, and in the process experienced one of the most effective love stories I have ever seen. "All The Reel Girls" from 2003. Having written scripts and shot films, I know how tough it is to really capture the true feeling of young love. This film captured every bit of awkwardness, passion, and heartbreak that comes along with young love and finding yourself. This is a film I am going to watch over and over again because it really had an effect on me.



I can't say enough good things about this film.

Earlier this evening I also saw another Sundance winner... "Angela" which was the directoral debut by Rebecca Miller who later won awards for the film Personal Velocity. The cinematography was breaktaking and the performances by the 2 young girls (not sure of their actual age, but their characters were 10 and 6 years old) in the lead were very impressive.