“Playing a Trick on an Odd Electrician” Posted

I posted another writing exercise on SoundCloud based on the random title: “Playing a Trick on an Odd Electrician”. An old man who thinks he has a sense of humor decides to play a trick on an electrician.

·         https://soundcloud.com/dynamiclethargy/playing-a-trick-on-an-odd-electrician-edited

This time we did the writing exercises during our script writer’s group meeting. We haven’t done that for a while. I finished up early, so this one is a bit on the shorter side of what I normally write.

The “old man” in the story isn’t entirely autobiographical. I don’t claim to be funny. Some people might even say that my sense of humour as a joke. Calling the electrician odd is debatable. I can see that some people would see the electrician as perfectly normal. I suppose that if I’d had more time to contemplate the story before I wrote it, I would have come up with someone more objectively odd.

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“The Lover and the Chivalrous Paladin” and the Older Filmmakers Club

I posted my recording of a new writing exercise. The Older Filmmakers Club is starting to come together.

“The Lover and the Chivalrous Paladin”

Sir Robert de Rockfort takes on a dangerous assignment to please the woman he loves, Lady Delfinia.

I wasn't all that keen on the title, but inspiration came, and I ended up with one of my longer pieces. I ran over my self imposed 30-minute time limit. I’m not sure by how much. Not more than 5 to 10 minutes. I did follow my rule to do no revision.

The biggest problem with the recording was that I had trouble pronouncing Chivalrous. I tried several times to get it right. I used an on-line dictionary to play the word, but it didn’t help much.

·         https://soundcloud.com/dynamiclethargy/the-lover-and-the-chivalrous-paladin

This exercise doesn’t lend itself to making a short video the same way some of my other writing exercises do. Speaking of which, I’ve only done one video based on my writing exercises so far. I did start on a second video but didn’t finish it. My goal is to get another one or two done by the end of the year.

Older Filmmakers Club

The Older Filmmakers Club made some progress over the last couple of weeks. The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers has supplied a lot of support to make it happen. They set up a channel on their SLACK workspace for the club. We have a about a dozen members now and they have started to share their goals and ideas on the SLACK channel. Some time in the new year we will start to have some on-line meetings. We hope that it won’t be too long before we can start to meet in person.

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Older Filmmakers, “Time Zone” and “Who Shot the President”

I made progress on a few projects. Getting them done about the same times make me look more productive that I actually was.

I made progress on the Older Filmmakers Club, wrote a story treatment, and posted "Who Shot the President" on YouTube. No Death threats yet.

The Older Filmmaker’s Club

As I age, it has become harder for me to make films. The aches, pains and reduced energy that come with getting old limit what I can do. I still want to make films and I have been looking for ways around my limitations. This is not a problem unique to myself, so I thought I’d reach out to other filmmakers who face similar challenges. I propose to create a club here with the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (https://www.csif.org/), where older filmmakers like myself can discuss ways to work around our limitations."

I haven’t put any restriction on age, the group would be open to anyone who faces similar challenges and others who want to support older filmmakers.

My first goal is to compile a list of people who want to participate. Then I plan to set up a meeting some time in the new year.

If you are interested, you can contact me through e-mail at theolderfilmmakersclub@gmail.com

or

through the CSIF slack channel the-older-filmmakers-club

“Time Zone”

At my last writer's group session, we were all grumbling about the time change from daylight to standard. The guy running the group suggested that we each try to write a treatment based on the concept of a time change. I wrote one this week that I titled "Time Zone".

I posted it on-line and got some comments. Mostly typos, but the others were generally positive. The big issue is that the set up makes the main character seem clueless. I think I can fix it. I think the idea has potential.

If you are interested in giving feedback, let me know and I’ll send you a link to it.

"Who Shot the President"

I posted "Who Shot the President" on YouTube. I posted it on there before; way back when I first joined YouTube. I got some very negative comments, including one physical threat. That gave me a scare. I removed the video from YouTube because of that.

Recently I was reviewing what movies I had posted on-line. "Who Shot the President" was the only one that wasn’t on YouTube, so I decided that it was probably safe to do so now. So far, no death threats.

·         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lSTEhH0d4E

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