In The Deep, In The Dark.
I am still unsure as to why I am doing a blog, maybe it is for me, ahhh yes, a little self perscribed therapy riddled with typos and dreams.

For those of you reading I am a 24 year old guy from Vancouver Canada with hopes of one day taking this life consuming screenplay of mine to larger places than my home pc.

I am away from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design until hopefully this January where I am studying Integrated Media.

I am a movie addict, I wish there was a program for us out there, those who can't control the addiction to cinema. It is like being dehydrated, you can never get enough water...EVER.

Last night I hit up the re release of Alien, directed than the man himself Mr Scott. It still amazes me to this day how well they pulled the production design off in those days. I hope the skills of miniature artists are never left behind for the world of CG. Though there is fear in me.
I went in keeping the date in mind because on the radio they were hyping the new print and sound design to Reloaded levels, I don't know about the other four people in the theatre but I couldn't see much difference outside of the dim lit hallway shots of the Nostromos. The sound design still should have been cleaned up, I don't know maybe they just moved it up to Dolby Digital and slapped a big gold star onto it but some of the voice over, especially in a scene between Ash and Rip was brutal.

I am still take by the Alien to this day though, the elegant menace it is. Cameron did a better job in the fright and panic scenerio though I think the pace of the Aliens screenplay and editing really helped that out. Scott and Cameron in my opinion did an equally amazing job of putting it on screen.

Now, Alien vs Predator has got me worried. Here are two franchises that could not have started off any stronger only to be brought to a smouldering hault with a series of watered down sequels (Alien(s) excluded of course) So I think I can see the door swinging both ways here. Either it is going to save both franchises in the eyes of the fans and pocketbooks of the execs through opening up more history to both races as well as putting our future on the line, OR, it is going to be worse than we could possibly imagine and will finally sink both ships forever maybe even to the point of Dark Horse abandoning the comic series as well.

I love sitting there though knowing it was made on the year I was born, it amazes me infact. The next time I shoot another 16mm short I will keep all complaints to myself lol.

So I am up to 160 cue cards on my bedroom wall. I could do the structure organizing for the screenplay on my computer but for some reason this works so much better. Analogue. Words to live by.

I am pretty close to becomming happy with all of it, I am just going to have to say enough is enough by the end of November. The great thing that has been happening though is more ideas are comming through for the second and third in the series.

I really want to put the previsual team together but there is simply no point right now, I am just excited and eager which is a good thing but it gets me jumpy.

Then again I have been jumpy since day one of this project. Four years down.