Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 10:57AM Here's a sequence of 4 frames from the end of the first scene showing Mr Parson walking into a street lined with people excited by the political fan fare passing by.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 10:55AM Here's a few frames from the start of scene 1 storyboard. It shows a 'janitor' arriving and removing a body form the street... ooooh!
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 10:34AM The AusGrid enviro course wins again! This time at the Austrlian Institute for Training and Development gala awards night.
Thanks to Richard and Sue at OpenLearn (pictured below).
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 2:18PM No real achievement, but I've been after vol 6 for ages now and it was re-released a few weeks ago so I picked up the only copy on the shelves of the book shop that had it:-)
Totaling around 2000 pages its a monster and I'm only part way thru vol 3. So I got a heap of reading to do.
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 6:46PM Of course the last post on this wasn't true... I sat and thought I would rewrite it again one more time. I'm very glad I did, it's brought a heap of new touches I was thinking the last few version were missing and is now a 5500 word story all typed up and backup-able on my computer:-)
Next stage is storyboarding, where no doubt it will get a bit of a rewrite on the way.
I'm still uncertain on the title and so I'm gonna leave it for a while but might go for "Reprise". Mr Parson is a good title I think but the relevance to the Orwell character isn't there anymore as I've made the lead character a more likable protagonist, that hopeful will get youthinking that could be me... well kinda:-)
So, the story? Well I'll try and summarise it here in the style of a back of DVD synopses. Put on your best Don LaFontaine voice in your head:
Mr Parson is a man who has lost his family and looks patiently to uncover the identity and whereabouts of there killer. Extremely close, he finds himself in a chance encounter that quickly becomes a dark path into redemption he was not ready for.
Set in an inner city distopia, where the political and social past has lead to a swift and extreme form of punishment called Reprise. Mr Parson defiantly tracks the killer only to end up a victim of his own actions.
Hope that gets ya excited:-)
Here's a little extract from the 5500 word story I wrote that the film will be based on. Here Mr Parson looks thru a key hole into a suspect unit:
Within seconds of Mr Parson looking thru the gap, making fuzzy mental notes of all the details, a figure of a man walks into eye shot form behind a wall in the same room as the table and tray. He places something on the tray, it makes a sharp clank sound. He appears to pause for a moment as if listening to something faint in another room. He cocks his head to one side as if to get a better handle on a sound, the side of his face is clearly visible by Mr Parson – its the man form the photo he smuggled out of the office. The figure then walks of to one side of the table out of view behind a wall.
Mr Parson's eye darks around thru the gap in the door trying to take in in more information feeling like he should pull away immediately but just wants to get in a few more seconds.
The figure re-appears without warning, but much closer form a side room, he is side on to Mr Parson and masks out the bright light falling on his face, he turns his head quickly towards the door just as Mr Parson pulls his face away form view. The figure walks towards the door.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 9:39AM Together with content writers OpenLearn the Enviro eLearning course we produced for AusGrid has won the top gong (Platinum) for Green Training Award presented by Learn X:
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 3:28PM It's been thru 2 rewrites and the 3rd version is gonna be the last of what I'm hoping will be a tense thriller. I'm sure there will be heaps of changes along the way but I rekon the writing is to a stage I can move on with and get into the storyboarding.
To get it to this stage I spent the past 6 months pondering ideas of what would make a cool film, written about 6000 words in notes, read a book about screen writing, changed concept direction 4 times, written 3 versions of the story, removed themes I thought would be awesome that weren't, added a 3 shot scene that turned into the entire final act, decided to use live action and not just animation, found out that writing an indepth story takes time an a fair bit of brain power and had muchos fun connecting the points of intrigue into a comprehendible story.
The final written version is currently only existing on 21 hand written cards making up 6 main scenes.
Coming up next :
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 2:12PM In the latest DeskTop mag (officially the best in the world now;-) First Flight has made it to the back pages under the Create Awards listings! Go get it now, and I'll sign it for ya!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 10:36AM Ah yeah, thats such great news. You can check out the offical entry page here:
http://www.createawards.com.au/shortlisted/round-one/first-flight/
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 2:23PM Yay... After a few months of tinkering in between jobs, I've finished the new site and showreel!
Thanks to Simon Bloom for his CSS help n tricks to make it work.
Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 9:59PM After many months of letting my brain wonder around and ponder a few concepts and mounting up over 5000 words of notes, I have settled on a story line and have actually started writing.
I'm not gonna disclose the premis just yet, as I'm thinking it might actually give away the story, so I may have to re write the premis just to conceal a pivotal plot. But let it be known that this bad boy is sinister and quite nasty for the get go. There will be blood!
I think this little tesaer line may shed a bit of light on it:
"Be careful how you murder someone, next time it will be you"
Oh yeah the working title is "Mr Parsons"
Monday, March 28, 2011 at 12:56PM Great news to hear a project has been nominated for Australian Interactive Media Assciation awards 2011.
Cheack it out here.
Monday, February 14, 2011 at 10:38AM Must check out Koji Morimoto for more art work onlong the same lines as Otomo.
Monday, February 14, 2011 at 10:28AM Jo Jo, the best wife eve, has kicked off my collection of Akira comics this Valentines with 4 original (1989) U.S colour editions of Akira!
Kurt, my brother already has about 10 from what I remeber, so the race is on for the complete collection of 38!
Fanks love, I love you even more now;-)
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 10:15AM Fingers crossed for First Flight to make it past the first round of the increasingly prestigious CREATE awards.
Its going in for the Animation category and I'll find out in September if it gets thru the first round. A long wait but ya never know:-)
http://www.desktopmag.com.au/category/create-awards/
Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 6:03PM Hell Yes!
A year in the making and its all done, 5 minutes of crizzy cutness.
Massive thank you to everyone who came along on Friday and gave lots of fantastic love and support. I had the best night.
Congrats to those who won one of the 8 signed prints, I can't wait to see em on ya walls:-)
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 10:05PM Hope everyone can make it.
Also an update on the film: I am very close to finishing it. I have done 90% of the audio, but have had issues with music... mostly finding it but all is in hand and looking and sounding frikin heaps good!
See you on the 10th
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Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 7:32PM Thanks To Jo (the lovely Mrs McGivern) for taking these pics of me recording audio even tho I wasn't impressed at the time!
I was using a SHURE SM57 and a Roland CD-2 to record the audio. Probably not the most appropriate equipment, but its what I have and I think the results are good.
So the audio is now recorded and ready to be dropped into the edit. I will also be adding in some sfx bought form variouse places, mainly iStock. Fingers crossed its all gonna be good:-)
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 9:21PM Its all getting very close now to launch date, which is now penciled in for somewhere between 13th - 15th Dec. So keep a looky out for the trailer in a couple of weeks and hopefully an invite to a bit of a do!
Just to get you excited here's the actual title screen for the start of the animo! and a few screens for promo uses. YAY!
