Greetings. It's been the better part of a year since my last post. Damn, does time fly. Anyway, a big part of how and why I started this blog was my reaction to Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and how it related to the original series, and how starkly different my opinion seemed to be from everyone else's. Last year I wrote a 9-page document about it for no reason other than personal frustration. I stepped away from that project for a while, and then started the blog seeking a more rational, critical approach. So I set out to re-do my entire review, and in so doing I got stopped in my tracks, as I had to move and restart classes. Well, I'm about two term papers out of finishing college, so those won't be a problem, although predictably I'll be moving again. Once that's done with, I'll be back at it.
But that's not the whole reason I stepped away from the blog. I also have a lot of other interests. Last semester I wrote an entire record's worth of songs which I wanted to record; this semester I realized that I could either cut the record, or direct and produce my own short film. I chose the latter, and thus I gave sweaty, traumatic man-birth to the short film Doppelganger. I think it's my best work of any kind so far, and I'm really excited to start submitting it to festivals and trying to get it out there into the world. But that's the promotional part of the movie, something I'm not so good at. And meanwhile, there's creative work to be done. Not that I don't have my hands full, what with getting a job (or two) and moving, but I have about 30 pages of a feature script I haven't touched in 9 months as well as a new idea for a low-budget feature film. But most of all, I just need to get back to writing every day, and watching stuff that I love.
So, in that spirit, retrospectives on Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, The Big O, Serial Experiments Lain, Death Note and FLCL are all forthcoming, while reviews of shows that are new or I have no previous experience with, namely Parasyte and Elfen Lied are also coming up. That's probably a full summer schedule, and I'll try to stick to it.
In the meantime, I created a blog all about the short film that I made, including blogs from the cast and crew as well. I'll just attach a link to the latest blog (which has the link to watch the movie streaming on IMDb), but I'd encourage anyone interested in filmmaking and production to go back and take a look at some of the older posts. Hopefully I did the process justice. Thanks to everyone who's read the blog, I'll be back in a couple weeks.
http://doppelgangerfilm.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-film-online.html
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| Hopefully I don't look like I'm pooping while I write as much as Light Yagami does. |
But that's not the whole reason I stepped away from the blog. I also have a lot of other interests. Last semester I wrote an entire record's worth of songs which I wanted to record; this semester I realized that I could either cut the record, or direct and produce my own short film. I chose the latter, and thus I gave sweaty, traumatic man-birth to the short film Doppelganger. I think it's my best work of any kind so far, and I'm really excited to start submitting it to festivals and trying to get it out there into the world. But that's the promotional part of the movie, something I'm not so good at. And meanwhile, there's creative work to be done. Not that I don't have my hands full, what with getting a job (or two) and moving, but I have about 30 pages of a feature script I haven't touched in 9 months as well as a new idea for a low-budget feature film. But most of all, I just need to get back to writing every day, and watching stuff that I love.
So, in that spirit, retrospectives on Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, The Big O, Serial Experiments Lain, Death Note and FLCL are all forthcoming, while reviews of shows that are new or I have no previous experience with, namely Parasyte and Elfen Lied are also coming up. That's probably a full summer schedule, and I'll try to stick to it.
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| I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little apprehensive (if excited) about that last one. |
In the meantime, I created a blog all about the short film that I made, including blogs from the cast and crew as well. I'll just attach a link to the latest blog (which has the link to watch the movie streaming on IMDb), but I'd encourage anyone interested in filmmaking and production to go back and take a look at some of the older posts. Hopefully I did the process justice. Thanks to everyone who's read the blog, I'll be back in a couple weeks.
http://doppelgangerfilm.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-film-online.html
