But that isn’t it. I am also working on another sceenplay.. a feature-length screenplay! Right now it is in the outline phase but I’ll give you a peek below…

I just want to say thanks to all my friends and I hope they had fun because I might ask them do it again.

My grandma (Dad’s Mom) is in town staying with my Dad in between visiting with her, I snapped a few photos of her dogs. I really enjoy this photo and there is another one on my flickr page.

Two weeks ago I picked up a brand new DSLR. I’ve been more than happy with my Nikon D80, but seeing all the hype and videos coming from the Canon 5D Mark 2 and seeing footage from the 7D, I decided to jump in and buy a DSLR that does video and it is amazing!

I’ve been shooting on the Sony FX-7, which is a great camera but like most prosumer HD camcorders it doesn’t have interchangeable lens and doesn’t do a good shallow depth of field. To get those things on this camera I would have to get a letus elite which costs more than the 7D! It also records 1080 24p which was a major sore spot for me with the Sony FX-7’s 1080 60i. Needless to say I am excited about the opportunities that the 7D affords me. And it shoots amazing stills too.

Here are some links to some videos and blogs that I’ve found extremely helpful.

http://philipbloom.co.uk/video-dslrs/
http://prolost.com/blog/2009/8/3/flatten-your-5d.html
http://www.vimeo.com/groups/22589/videos/6501875

WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD.

In preparation of seeing Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, I decided to look back at the first Michael Bay Transformers movie and give it the rewrite treatment. For what Transformers was, a tent-pole-summer-popcorn-michael-bay-action-pack-extravaganza , it wasn’t a bad movie, but I felt that the movie had an opportunity to be more. I felt that story, characterization, and emotion fell to the side of the pure spectacle of CGI robots fighting. (Which did look amazing, ILM!)

I think that the screenwriters and directors should have borrowed heavily from “The Iron Giant”, and the way I envision this treatment is more as an Stephen Spielberg/child-like-wonder story. Imagine E.T. but with CGI robots. Here Sam is a boy, rounding out the age of 10. He is an introverted child, who instead of playing with kids decides to stay at home with his LEGOs.

Wow, ok that one was a little short. Just go see “The Iron Giant” and you’ll get the drift.

Entering A Scene:

Writing Better Action:

I also suggest checking out his blog for more useful tips.

Rewrite! is a 1 to 2 page makeover or addition to a scene to a major motion picture. It is a way for me to change something(s) that didn’t sit well with me in the final version of the movie.

WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD.

First things first, I didn’t like X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I think that it had a lot of potential, but an inferior script left a movie where there is a bunch of action and no characterization and no resemblance to the prior X-Men films.

There are a lot of scenes I felt I could have rewritten. One was putting the Adamantium process at the end and make that wipe Wolverine’s memory, but ultimately I felt that changing a scene early one would have had the greatest impact and could of lead to a different movie than what we have now.

These scenes fall somewhere before the horrific Wolverine vs. Helicopter scene. The hope is that after these scenes we get some better Team X/Weapon X scenes and a better ending.

Here are some photos from my recent trip to Brazil that I have been posting on my flickr. As I process them, I’ll post more.

Brazil

Jonathan Coulton (who I am going to Houston to see Friday) posted this amazing video from Kutima. I have seen mashups before but none of this musical quality.

http://thru-you.com/

This weeks! – http://www.financialstability.gov/
http://www.recovery.gov
http://www.AStrongMiddleClass.gov
and the new White House.gov site…
http://www.whitehouse.gov