oneimill

Prior to live action filmmaking, I was an animator (whether or not I was good will remain speculative, as I lost the vast majority of my work due to a computer's death).

I want a Looney Tunes styled cartoon to appear on the TV at some point in my film , and as I know no animators, I have to return to my old medium...
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As I mentioned last week, my competition failed, but as I have a brain that never shuts up when it comes to ideas, I already wrote 3 out of 4 clips that I'll be making, and that will appear in the film.

One of which is a terrible Life Insurance commercial using some old, unused footage. The actress in this scene was supposed to react
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Gotta prepare to get stared at by really, really confused people.

So, I'm back to doing some serious work on my short film "Retirement". I'm slowly putting the crew together, and if everything works out, this will be the largest crew I've ever worked with.

If you've seen my somewhat redundant photos over the past week, you know I've been working on one my sets (a newsroom), and although there are still a few pieces left...
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and it's that I usually stand in the camera myself, and I'm so pale I can actually throw off the exposure and the white balance.

Damn you, pale skin!

...that reworking a script I wrote after a bad breakup, and absolutely failed trying to make 2 years ago, may not have been a good idea.

I'm pretty sure I just caused a depression flare up, and this was a bad idea.

Started work on screenplay rewrites. Had to start off by researching the psychoanalytical aspects of what I'm writing. It may be fictional, and part horror film, but that's no justification for bad science. Most of my night was spent reading psychology reports, or reading testimonials of those who suffer from schizophrenia. Not exactly the happiest of subjects.

I ended up with about 3 pages of
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So apart from complaining about work (I know that has to get annoying), I did actually do some shit with my life:

I went up to Philly to see Rush, which has been one of my favorite bands since I was young (my dad pretty much never played anything else in car, so it's fitting I saw it with him). It may or may not...
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I really wish I could get paid vacation time at my job.