4iworx blog

3 FINALLY!

4iworx has a blog! I have a blog! Okay, that’s obnoxious.

Cleve-

4 well, now what?

I’m working on the site. I should have the structure and navigation done in a few days and then it’s on to content. The site will feature several writing examples (scripts that may be getting the “rewrite” treatment), video, drawings and photos, music (at some point), ramblings about movies and what-not, and of course the blog. It’s coming along. Just a little more time as I try to catch up with a great segment of the world.

Cleve-

5 what’s the hold up?

This site should be up and running already! I know. But, I got two editing jobs and possibly a third. We’re in the middle of production on one and the other is shooting early next month. Maybe I’ll be able to post a clip or something here when the projects are done. The work is also holding up progress on the LIGHTFALL site, which looks to me as if it’s been abandoned. It hasn’t. Morgan’s working on some comicbook pages and as soon as I get a moment I’ll be doing some more adaptation work on the feature script into a comicbook script. Check back in about two weeks and there may be some updates to one or both sites.

Cleve

6 cinema paradiso

It has been so long since I’ve seen a movie in a theater. I think I’m going through withdrawl bigtime. M:I:3 was the last movie I saw and that was months ago! Now, I can watch movies on DVD or cable, but I don’t care how good your home theater set up is, it ain’t no movie house! My god-brother has a 12+ foot screen, digital projection with THX/Dolby 7.2 sound in his home theater - which has 2 rows of stadium seating with big cushy theater chairs and seriously loungy couches on the respective rows, AND a real popcorn machine! - but it ain’t no theater! I have to get into a good theater with great sound, perfect projection and a screen so big it feels like its surrounding me, drawing me into the fantastic world up there on screen, transporting me and making me a silent witness to the whatever reality I’m presented with. I need to see a big summer tent pole popcorn blockbuster hit too. After I get this fix, then I’ll go see a smaller more intimate movie, but for now… I think I’ll go see Pirates 2 at the El Capitan. Maybe they’ll have a fun little stage show before hand to boot. Perhaps I’ll see Superman at the Chinese. (It might be out of theaters by tomorrow, so I better catch it quick.) But this might cost over 30 bucks for me and my wife… What if the movies suck and they don’t draw me in? What if I’m bombarded with a lot of noise and flashy headache inducing imagery? What if there’s a stinky guy sitting next to me, talking on his cell? Or worse, somebody brings a one year old that’s toothing, needs a diaper change and is hungry? Shit. Maybe we’ll just see what netfick came in the mail today.

Cleve-

7 arrrrrg! here be pirates!

(from the 4iworx bb) 

What’s the deal with Pirates Of The Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest? Was it brilliant marketing? Was it the strength of the theatrical run of the first movie? Was it DVD sales/rentals? How did this movie do what it did? I saw it tonight, with a 1/2 full house at El Capitan ($14 general admission, $23 VIP) and a mixed crowd of all ages, races and from the looks of it, economic strata. My wife fell asleep, except for three teenaged girls who cheered and squealed over every Depp moment, the audience more or less sat there like lumps. Bored lumps. Did I miss something, or did I just see half a movie, and not a very good one at that?

8 simultaneous or consecutive?

It’s no secret that I didn’t dig the latest Pirate movie. In a word, it was “dull.” “Boring” might be a better description, maybe not. Maybe, “uneventful,” or “unmemorable.” (Is that even a word?) Anyway, what’s wrong with this movie? It reminded me a lot of Matrix Reloaded. And I have the feeling that Pirates 3 will resemble Matrix Revolutions as well. Here’s my theory: In the rush to get the big budget franchise pics done, they put together deals and budgets based on the fact that they’re going to shoot said movies simultaneously. Do they really mean “at the same time” or do they mean consecutively? I suppose if you’re using the same actors, the same or similar locations, and you’re not changing the writer or director, or anyone else for that matter, shooting consecutive sequels sounds good. It doesn’t, however, seem to bring the cost down as is often sighted as a reason to shoot this way. Maybe.

More importantly, to me (and I’m a geek so it is important), Continue reading simultaneous or consecutive?…

10 HENCHMEN

I read my Henchmen script this week and I haven’t read that one for years. I’d forgotten a lot of it. It’s got a lot of potential, I think. It was actually pretty funny. But man does it need a rewrite. I can’t wait to get some of my scripts on the site. Now I just have to get back to work on the site which is of course not done.

Cleve-

12 #11 - going postal!

This is really more than 11 tries at making the attachments work. This will determine whether or not I have a blog at all. Can I make the attachments work?!

13 cracking up

still no luck. going for it again. #12

17 my first real post

Finally, I got this thing to do what it’s supposed to do. Now it’s just like everybody else’s. That’s cool though. The battle over whether or not to have a separate blog and message board still rages within me. I still like the idea of a pure blog, but I don’t like having two unrelated links. Hmmmm. For now, I’m all excited so I’ll keep both. When I get time to learn how to build my own skins, I’ll return to this part of the project and come up with a look that I really like. For now, this will do.

(I guess this isn’t really a very exciting blog. I have a lot to say, but every time I sit down at the computer for this stuff, my mind goes blank. I’m glad I don’t go through this when I write scripts.)

Cleve-

Me and the wife at home.