Agent 99 - Online story telling

I have knocked together a quick wordpress site for My Inner Orc, which looks set for an October outing in London (Hooray!).

http://myinnerorc.com

After the bad timing of developing an intensely personal project with a first-time director and thinking about getting some money from the NZ film commission to do a draft only for said Commission to go all genre on us and move away from first-time directors and intensly personal stories...

It took a while to get the motivation up again, but I have finally begun to redraft it. I dug out some notes I made with the Producer last year and have started working my way through the script.

I've been playing around with some images to submit to a web series call - and yes they wanted support material. Click the attachment link below to see a composite...

Tagline: When an oil rig drills deep into her heart Mother Nature decides to fight back...

Second draft report

Phew - made it to the end of the second draft of Bitch (only 7 to go then?!).

Hi all

I was just fiddling around with images for my new horror - trying to find a poster image that some how sums up the movie. This is a fun thing to do, imagining what the DVD cover might look like, but also gives you a key into the tone of the movie.

So, below is a big image from my latest horror 'Bitch'. It was called the 'The Gaia Platform' but that made it sound like a thriller. My question is.... what do you think this movie is about just given this image? And yes you can rant at me about stereotypical portrayal images of women in horror! Just leave a comment below...

So I sent in a script to the Writer's room - spur of the moment really. I was feeling pretty good about this film - after all it is in good enough shape to attract a producer and director, and it contains my best film writing. Actually I would go further and say this is the script in which I found my visual story telling style.

Last week I got the 'we like it send us the next one' letter with a one page critique as well. I would think this a success - they noticed, they liked it, they'll read the next. But reading the critique I realise I had made a horrible mistake...

It's been a long long time since I thought very hard about telling stories online. Back in the late 90s(!) I wrote quite a few 'eFiction' pieces and online interactives. In fact I won a couple of prizes for them. 'The Casino Project' won me Swinburne Unis Postgraduate Award and 'A Thread' won me a new computer care of Country Road (a high-end Aussie clothing label).

Since then I have done zip in this format.

But in the next month or two I am going to start again. Why the long delay?

1. I've been writing plays and movies

I have brushed up Boy on Bike after a good prompt from my friend Philippa. She asked me, with typically deft insight, what my audience would take away from the movie.

Well thanks PlaymarketNZ for a bit of cash to pay some actors and a director to have a rehearsed reading of 'My Inner Orc' in London sometime soon.

It's going to be pretty much over to me to organise it but it shouldn't be too hard given that I can hopefully hook up with the Shaky Isles Team, and add some contacts of my own.

Main thing is to see if the play is actually funny enough in front of an audience and do some 'crowd shift uneasily in their seats' detection.

Phew, just picked up that there was a great op for a screen play dump at the Red Planet Prize that was closing in about 24 hours - have quickly written a synopsis of Boy on a Bike and popped it off. While I devotedly read the 'Shooters' email list every single day I miss something this important...

Now I need to think about the American Zortrope comp which closes in five days but is $US45 to enter... I think I should just do it you know...