Once more into the fray.
Into the last good fight I'll eve know.
Live and die on this day.
Live and die on this day.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Poster Idea
Thinking about some poster ideas to help market the film. This is a cross between Carlito's Way and Taken.
Thoughts? I am open to suggestions.
Thoughts? I am open to suggestions.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Updates!
Updates! So, for anyone that stops by the site often, we have made a few changes to the site.
First would be the banner, which is the first in a series of different poster and marketing material that I have planned during the long road of making this film.
If you have any thoughts, comments, or suggestion - please, do not hesitate to leave a comment below.
Feedback is welcome.
Also, on the social media front we have added our Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr links to the page.
You will find them in the new "Pages" bar that was added under the header picture. Please, take a moment to click on these links for review, and of course subscribe and share with friends. We will try to post to everything often, but it can be hard to tackle all of these things at once.
Again, any suggestions that you have are welcome, and leave them in the comment box below. They will be read!
As for writing the screenplay - still in the works, but not moving fast enough. Not because I am not sure what to write (well, not entirely correct on that), but mainly a matter of time.
TIME - it seems like everyday something new gets in the way. My job, maintenance around the house, etc. It is a tasking job in the independent world. And let us be honest, and keeping it between just us here, I watch a lot of movies. I sometimes enjoy watching them more than I do making them.
In January alone I watched around 30 movies, or what I like to call homework. Some are films that I have seen. Others are films that have been on my mental movie que list for a long time. It's something that love doing and sometimes I just can't escape it; the need to watch a new film.
And I don't even have television on at my house to distract me. But the pages don't write themselves. So, I am working away and will share progress as I go.
Thanks for reading,
Ryan
Monday, January 28, 2013
Coffee of the Day
While searching for this coffee of the day I came across this artist profile, Madeleine Matter.
She is also using The One You Feed myth to help inspire her artwork. I think that she captures the duality really well, and also the concept of the wolf inside us all.
Here is one of pieces that struck out most to me. For the rest of her work click here.
She is also using The One You Feed myth to help inspire her artwork. I think that she captures the duality really well, and also the concept of the wolf inside us all.
Here is one of pieces that struck out most to me. For the rest of her work click here.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
The Music I Listen To
In an earlier post I discussed the type of music that I listen to in order to get into the zone of writing. Quentin Tarantino has spoke in the past about combing through his album collection to find the music that will define the film that he is working on.
In the case of The One You Feed movie, I have had a clear and distinct style that I want to evoke and much of that comes from the soundtrack to Michael Mann's masterpiece film Heat. In fact the a lot of The One You Feed will come from my enjoyment of watching and listening to films by Michael Mann.
Over the last few days I penned two scenes that will introduce our main female character, Eady, throughout the rest of the film. I choose two pieces of the soundtrack for Heat to listen to repeated while typing those scenes.
Below is that piece of music. And yes, Eady is the name of Amy Brenneman's character in Heat.
In the case of The One You Feed movie, I have had a clear and distinct style that I want to evoke and much of that comes from the soundtrack to Michael Mann's masterpiece film Heat. In fact the a lot of The One You Feed will come from my enjoyment of watching and listening to films by Michael Mann.
Over the last few days I penned two scenes that will introduce our main female character, Eady, throughout the rest of the film. I choose two pieces of the soundtrack for Heat to listen to repeated while typing those scenes.
Below is that piece of music. And yes, Eady is the name of Amy Brenneman's character in Heat.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
In the Mood for Love . . . or Writing
You probably hear people say this all the time, hell you probably say it yourself all as well - "I have to be in the right mood." You hear this a lot especially from people when discussing going to the gym, or in a marriage or long term relationship the "mood" has to be just right for the parties to align. And it seems sometimes like you and your partner are never in the same mood at the same time.
Writing is very similar. It can hard to write something somber while listening to something upbeat, or write something upbeat while listening to something somber. And for me, I can never write scenes with dialogue while also listening to music with lyrics. As music can often change someones mood, I use it to get into the right mode, or mood, for writing certain scenes.
There are several songs and pieces of music that I have been using lately while writing The One You Feed, and I'll be posting them periodically. Here is one by Hanz Zimmer from the film Inception. I used it for my more somber moments.
Any other writers out there? What pieces of music do you use?
Writing is very similar. It can hard to write something somber while listening to something upbeat, or write something upbeat while listening to something somber. And for me, I can never write scenes with dialogue while also listening to music with lyrics. As music can often change someones mood, I use it to get into the right mode, or mood, for writing certain scenes.
There are several songs and pieces of music that I have been using lately while writing The One You Feed, and I'll be posting them periodically. Here is one by Hanz Zimmer from the film Inception. I used it for my more somber moments.
Any other writers out there? What pieces of music do you use?
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Friday, December 21, 2012
Screenwriting is Like Ironing . . .
“Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.”
I haven't been posting much lately, except for the occasion "Coffee of the Day" post, which I find amusing and fun. But there are two hard truths to my lack of addition post for this blog with "real" information that would be fun to follow.
1: I have allowed myself to be busy with other things. There are writers that are meant to write and there is me. I think that I am good writer, but it takes me time to sit down in front of the computer and actually pun out a screenplay. I used to criticize Tarantino for taking forever and a day sometimes before starting production on his next movie (see the gap between Jackie Brown and Kill Bill Vol 1 as an example). It can be hard to actually sit down and create the magic, instead of watching a movie or getting involved with various different family and friend events that come along. To my credit, I do have a full time job that I also have to attend for 40 hours a week.
*Also, I in no way saying that I am on the level as Tarantino. There are many micro-indie (is that a new term I just made up) film-makers that think that they are Tarantino, the next Tarantino. They are of course wrong. I meant that my situation reminds me of Tarantino long gap between projects, not in any way that I am as him as well.
2: See the quote above - a valid point. In the last three times that I have sat down to write the script I have made a lot of progress and even have written several pages at a time. However, my page count continues to sit at 20-23 pages. I find that I am ironing out the details as I go. Two years ago, when I wrote the first draft of the story arc I added a long of dialogue scenes, some of which that are only re-stating the dialogue of the scene prior. It was almost like a Stephanie Meyers novel. As it was just a rough of the story arc, I didn't see it at the time as being a problem, and neither did my good friend, fellow film-maker, and now Masters of English graduate Jason White.
As I am writing the story, I find that I need to trim the fat out of the screenplay. Which is something that I am usually telling everyone else to do. It usually seems that an amateur storyteller/ screenwriter always has 20 pages of screenwriting when they could have told condensed it down to four pages instead. Again, another thing that Stephanie Meyers does in her novels.
But now that I have half of my scenes from the story arc draft missing, I am left with figuring out the details in the middle. I also changed a few of the character backgrounds, and am trying to figure out how that all fits together. So, the first 20 pages for far have gone threw a few revisions and mainly so that I can build a strong foundation for continuing forward.
And if I can't figure it out from there, then I'll just type up what I originally had on the page and let my film-making peers tear it to shreds with notes and suggested revision - and then go from there.
Ryan McDonald
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I haven't been posting much lately, except for the occasion "Coffee of the Day" post, which I find amusing and fun. But there are two hard truths to my lack of addition post for this blog with "real" information that would be fun to follow.
1: I have allowed myself to be busy with other things. There are writers that are meant to write and there is me. I think that I am good writer, but it takes me time to sit down in front of the computer and actually pun out a screenplay. I used to criticize Tarantino for taking forever and a day sometimes before starting production on his next movie (see the gap between Jackie Brown and Kill Bill Vol 1 as an example). It can be hard to actually sit down and create the magic, instead of watching a movie or getting involved with various different family and friend events that come along. To my credit, I do have a full time job that I also have to attend for 40 hours a week.
*Also, I in no way saying that I am on the level as Tarantino. There are many micro-indie (is that a new term I just made up) film-makers that think that they are Tarantino, the next Tarantino. They are of course wrong. I meant that my situation reminds me of Tarantino long gap between projects, not in any way that I am as him as well.
2: See the quote above - a valid point. In the last three times that I have sat down to write the script I have made a lot of progress and even have written several pages at a time. However, my page count continues to sit at 20-23 pages. I find that I am ironing out the details as I go. Two years ago, when I wrote the first draft of the story arc I added a long of dialogue scenes, some of which that are only re-stating the dialogue of the scene prior. It was almost like a Stephanie Meyers novel. As it was just a rough of the story arc, I didn't see it at the time as being a problem, and neither did my good friend, fellow film-maker, and now Masters of English graduate Jason White.
As I am writing the story, I find that I need to trim the fat out of the screenplay. Which is something that I am usually telling everyone else to do. It usually seems that an amateur storyteller/ screenwriter always has 20 pages of screenwriting when they could have told condensed it down to four pages instead. Again, another thing that Stephanie Meyers does in her novels.
But now that I have half of my scenes from the story arc draft missing, I am left with figuring out the details in the middle. I also changed a few of the character backgrounds, and am trying to figure out how that all fits together. So, the first 20 pages for far have gone threw a few revisions and mainly so that I can build a strong foundation for continuing forward.
And if I can't figure it out from there, then I'll just type up what I originally had on the page and let my film-making peers tear it to shreds with notes and suggested revision - and then go from there.
Ryan McDonald
Monday, December 10, 2012
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