I’ve been blogging a lot lately about other people’s movies and music and such, and I feel it’s finally time to give an update about the projects that I’m working on!

I currently have one commission that I’m working on. It’s a video for my friend Jared, a high school band teacher whose jazz band concert this spring will be featuring footage of old movies projected along with the concert. It’s my job to put the old movie footage together. I think it’s a cute idea, and an opportunity to show high school kids the beauty of some of the old classics. Each song is going to cover a certain era in film, but it will all be pre-color. So we’ve got gangster movies, Noir movies, exotic location films, golden age (as in fred astaire and ginger rogers), one song devoted entirely to Casablanca, and then one devoted to Metropolis and German expressionist films (a la Murnau’s Nosferatu). Should be a lot of fun to edit as well, since I get to watch all of these films again to complete it!

I also have to paint two more paintings for O-Cha, the bubble tea place in Greenville that’s going to let me hang some stuff this June.

As far as I know, the shoot for this Sunday is still happening. I’m helping out a local filmmaker, and hopefully it will lead to some collaboration and help in the future with my own projects.

Now, onto my own personal film and screenwriting projects. I’ve got two scripts that I’m going to try to finish during Script Frenzy (which starts April 1st). If you don’t know what Script Frenzy is, it’s the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) for screenplays and other script format writing. The goal is to write 100 pages in a month. I’m going to try to double that. I believe I can, as long as I get everything outlined before the 1st.

My two projects, you ask? Well, there’s “Ninth Wave,” which I’ve been tossing around for a while. All I can say about it is that it’s steampunk. And then there’s another, even more secret project. And I’m so excited about this that I can’t stand it. But I’m also very concerned that it could be an idea that others would like to get hold of, so no details until it’s protected!

Aside from that, I also have a super short film that I would like to enter into the Dragon Con film festival, among others. It would probably be no longer than five minutes. Super cute. But I’m having a bit of trouble with getting my friends to be extras for it. The only tough part of the shoot is that I need quite a few extras and they all need to be in historical costumes. So far, it’s looking like I’m going to have to go to craigslist to find participants.

So that’s an update about what I’ve been doing with myself. Lots to do. Less and less time to do it. Not to mention, if I get this job that I really am hoping for I will have even less time. But that’s the life of a pirate filmmaker I suppose. Honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way.