Long Delayed Update - 2026 May 28

I haven’t updated my website for a while. It isn’t that I had nothing to report, but I am in severe procrastination mode. As I get older, it seems that things get harder to do.

Scripts Posted

I posted a bunch of my scripts on my website. I’ve had a page for my scripts but had only posted one script on it. Recently I posted eighteen more. Mostly they were short scripts I did for the Script Dreams group’s writing challenges. I posted a couple older scripts as well. I have a few more short scripts and some longer ones that I intend to post. Someday. https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/scripts/

While preparing the files to upload, I came across short scripts I had forgotten about.

CSIF Older Filmmakers Club

I am still involved with the club, but I have struggled to organise meetings over the last year. Someone else volunteered to run some meetings, which is much appreciated. They’ve done a couple so far. I hope to recruit some other people to run meetings. Many hands make light work. I will be setting up a meeting on documentary films.

Script Dreams Group

I joined this writer’s group back in 2018. We’ve been meeting a couple times a month. One meeting devoted to writing our scripts, while the other we read the scripts aloud and we talk about writing, film, and other things that come up. Every month we get a writing prompt for a short script. Many of the scripts posted on my script page come from those prompts.

Shut Up and Write Group

I joined this writer’s group several years ago. The focus of the group is to not talk and to write instead. I’ve found it a big help in fighting my procrastination. We meet every week, although we do have the occasional gap.

Unfinished Animation Projects

I have several unfinished projects, which I try to pick up and finish off now and then. I used NAWMAL to do the animation.

“The Audience for AI Films” is my critique of AI generated films. I felt that it was too short and was stuck for ways to make it longer.

“The Dread of the Daring Rocketeer” is a sort of Science Fiction story. I ran into problems with some of the images and got stuck.

“Time Enough for the Anxious Social Media Manager” is pretty much what the title says. I recorded the audio, but I haven’t done any of the animation.

“The Urgent Phone Call”

We finished this film early last year and I have been entering it into film festivals. I think it has run its course there, so I am considering what to do with it next. https://filmfreeway.com/TheUrgentPhoneCall

Years ago Ouat Media (https://ouatmedia.com/) distributed “My Next Film” (https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/my-next-film/), so I have thought about approaching them about “The Urgent Phone Call.” So far I’ve done nothing about that. I’ve also thought about posting it on my YouTube channel.

 

Someday I’ll stop procrastinating and get all this done.

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“Speed Date” and Revised “The Barrier” Videos Posted

I posted one new video and a revised old video on YouTube this week. I am slowly working away on my backlog of projects.

“Speed Date”

This project began as an experiment with NAWMAL about four years ago. It came together quickly. Unfortunately, the feedback I got was quite negative. I think the main sticking point was the computer-generated voices I used. I intended to record actors eventually but didn’t do that for the initial version while I worked on the script.

The blowback caused me to abandon the project.

A few months ago I revisited the project. Initially I recorded the voices myself and used voice.ai to give the different characters distinct voices. This worked better, but my acting skills are not much better than the computer-generated voices.

I brought in Mona Dallmann, who acted in my film “My Most Difficult Case” to rerecord the dialogue.

I finally finished editing “Speed Date,” this week.

You can watch it on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH7FUnTkeMM

“The Barrier”

One of the comments I get about the videos I’ve done with NAWMAL is that the movements all seem too slow. As an experiment I revised my video “The Barrier” by speeding it up. It was a bit tricky because after speeding up, the voice pitches were too high. In my initial attempt it turned out that threw the sync off. I didn’t pick it up until someone posted a comment on YouTube.

I reworked my process, and I now have a new version of the video that fixed the sound sync issue.

 

The new version is available on YouTube now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi2cWiRUjX8

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“Ted Writes a Novel” Recording Demonstration Posted

Over the last 2 ½ years I’ve been recording the writing exercises I’ve done in the writer’s group I joined. Recently someone who heard about this asked me to do a demonstration video about how I did it. I’ve posted that demo video now.

I’ve used some of my writing exercises as the basis for a few of the short, animated videos I’ve done. Part of the reason why I started to record and post my writing exercise was to develop my skills in recording voices for my animation videos.

At first I was reluctant to do such a demonstration, because I felt what I was doing was rather primitive compared to what others could do. Eventually I convinced myself that there were some people who could benefit from my experiences.

For my demonstration, I wrote a very short story, “Ted Writes a Novel,” so the demonstration video wouldn’t run too long.

I use Audacity on my PC computer for recording and editing. The microphone I use is a Yeti Blue USB. I modify my voice for different characters using voice.ai. I use Natural Reader text to voice for some characters.

I used OBS Studio to record a video of the process of recording, cleaning up, and editing the video. After some procrastination I edited the 32 ½ minutes of raw video into a 10 ½ minute video. I wanted to keep the final video short, so I cut out or sped through repetitive sections. I also used the opportunity to cover up some of the mistakes I made.

I finally finished the video this week and posted it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffwmb9_XIs

I hope you find this useful.

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