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Rudge from the rear

This is a Rudge Racer. It's a 1935 that somebody rescued from a barn. He paid $200 dollars for it. It's all original save for some wiring that needed replacing. It's one of the original bikes that raced the Isle of Man TT when the race took hours and hours and doing a, "Ton," was a the thing of fantasy.

After the Fire

Dumped

A short film adapted from a friend's short story. One day I'm going to make this myself for no other reason than it needs to be done.

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by *pvarela

The composition here is fine. It's a fairly standard shot with a fairly standard light source. You might have had a slightly mor...

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The waiting is the hardest part

Thu Nov 26, 2009, 6:55 AM
“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.”

Jim Rohn

Hold on tightly, let go lightly.

The hardest part for some writers is letting go of your work. As a screenwriter, this is just part of the process. For me, by the time a piece makes its way through the entire process of being filmed and edited, I'm very disconnected from the final product. There's a vague sense of having written the dialogue and set the scenes but for the most part, it never matches the movie I shot in my head when I wrote it.

Which is why I try to avoid being on the set like the plague. No Director ever has to worry about me being on set, because I hate it. For one thing, it's incredibly boring. Why do you think actors have trailers? It's not so they can't escape from the little people, it's so they can have a place to go and not be too bored.

I had a discussion with my exec producer the other day, just having a gab about some upcoming projects and he rolled out the phrase, "And you can probably direct that one."

"Did you just say I could direct?" I asked him.

"Yeah, probably." was his answer.

"Just so we're clear," I told him, "I'm a writer, I've got no interest in directing... Ever."

"But everybody wants to direct." He replied.

"Not this guy."

And the reason is clear. In a given year, I usually have at least three scripts on the go. With at least two of them being specs I'm pushing towards getting made. If I moved into the Director camp,my output would drop to one film every two years. And I'd be responsible for that project coming off. No thanks. At least now I can say they, "Tanked," my script and we all know who, "They," are.

So right now, we're on day seven of my current feature. I understand, we're a little behind and a bit over budget but they're going to pick up some time on some of the more dialogue heavy scenes. I hear we're getting good stuff in the can.

Here's hoping.

  • Mood: Artistic
  • Listening to: Moon Soundtrack
  • Reading: The Vincent in the Barn
  • Watching: Lie To Me
  • Playing: Halo 3 ODST
  • Eating: Something with pork
  • Drinking: Coke

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I studied screenwriting under Alan DiFiore (The David Milgard Story, DaVinci's Inquest, The Handler) at The Vancouver Film School in their Script Development Program. After the program I continued to hone my skills by writing and producing short films.

The first was, "The Provider," a comic tale about a farmer hunting a duck while saddled with a broken leg of his own. This was followed by, "The Terrible Old Man," which was sold to CBC, Bravo and Space. It also earned me a nomination in the Best Short Drama Screenwriting category in the 2002 Leos, the largest industry awards event in Western Canada.

In 2001, I optioned my second script, "Darkness," an urban horror / thriller to Wishbone Entertainment . We moved out of BC to Toronto. In 2002 I was hired by Wishbone to write, "Killers," a psychological thriller.

In 2004 I was hired to write, "Snapped," a feature horror project produced by Twisted Cow Productions Inc.

"Snapped," is in Worldwide distribution through Velocity Home Entertainment the video release arm of Think Film.

I wrote two double and two single segments for Creepy Canada (III) in 2006. My first foray into scripted television.

In 2007 I wrote Whiskey Four Two a millitary drama for Faranj Productions, the project is currently making the rounds in LA looking for a funding source. "Every Second Counts," a thriller project I started in 2005 and completed in 2007 has now been optioned by Macheby Pictures Ltd. Retitled, "Reliance," it will begin principal photography sometime this summer. This year it looks like I'll be doing two projects for Cinesavvy Inc. A Toronto based production company.

I'm available to Story Edit, you can contact me directly for rates.

My writing blog is at [link]

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  • Current Residence: Mississauga
  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: XL
  • Interests: Screenwriting, Photography, Reading, History
  • Favourite movie: The Great Escape
  • Favourite band or musician: Too many to name
  • Favourite genre of music: Everything except Rap
  • Favourite artist: Edward Hopper
  • Favourite poet or writer: William Carlos Williams, James Lee Burke
  • Favourite photographer: Anyone who is at the right place at the right time with a camera in their hand.
  • Favourite style of art: Impressionism, Hyper Reality, High Contrast
  • Operating System: Windows Vista Home
  • MP3 player of choice: Ipod 80GB Video
  • Favourite game: Paintball
  • Favourite gaming platform: Suzuki DL 650 V-Strom
  • Favourite cartoon character: Willie Coyote
  • Personal Quote: This is gonna hurt...
  • Tools of the Trade: Final Draft 7, Final Draft AV 2.5, Canon Xti Rebel 10.2mpxl

Comments


:icondjohn9:
Really enjoyed the gallery. You got some great shots of vintage aircraft.
:iconsabot03196:
Thanks. I enjoy the results of others hard work. It's cool to see the shoulders of the giants we stand on.

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:iconotsego-amigo:
thanks a lot!

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:iconakharlamov:
Thank you for the watch!

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:iconsabot03196:
No worries, you've got a bloody good eye. I'm interested to see more of your stuff. How do you find the 5D Mark II? We just shot a feature out here with two of them and were really impressed with the camera's capabilities.

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:iconakharlamov:
Thanks again! :lol:
Well...about the 5D mkII...the body construction sucks, I use heavy lenses and it's not very solid (I use it gripped) with the hand strap...the plastics feel very cheap and insecure. The water isolation seems to be ok, I already shot during rain and in very dusty situations, no problems so far. The image quality, I find lots of weird noise in the dark zones, specially if there is something with brown/red tones...I already updated all the latest firmware and it's still there...but I'm not a pixel peeper and printed it's very difficult to find that noise...so it works for me, not a problem. The camera is capable to produce great shots regarding the image quality although the photog misses often on the task...:lol: In overall it's a great instrument...but I would prefer the 1D series because of the body construction, more solid...

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:iconsabot03196:
Yeah, we had the body mounted to a separate rig with slide support for the lenses (Nikon) so the construction didn't play into things too much though I hear there were some issues downloading the footage in post (which I'm told are fixed). It's not like the good old days where the camera body could damn near stop a bullet. I still have my AE1-Program and that thing has been through fire and flood and while I can't check depth of field anymore, it still takes a damn fine picture.

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Steve Abbott


"Who Dares Wins"

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:iconakharlamov:
I've a EOS1 with 30yr, Zenith-E and the mamiya RZ67 pro that weights a ton...all of them working and rocking! I love mamiya...120mm negative is much better than the 21mp canon dslr...

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