Vancouver Film Schooling

I suck at being on here lately. This seems to have been a problem for about the last 8 months... roughly the time I started at film school.

It's just so busy here! So far, I've written a feature length screenplay (which included an outline, two drafts of the treatment, writing the actual screenplay, then rewriting the screenplay), a spec episode of Reaper (which consisted of the same amount of work asthe screenplay... sending this off to the Austin Film Festival teleplay competition), sketch night (had 2 sketches produced), a short film that is soon to be in production (5 page short, but holy a lot of rewrites ..), a pilot episode of a sitcom (awful. It was just awful.), a spec episode of What About Mimi (children's animated show), a speculative documentary idea (ick), plus all the regular school stuff that was just homework (genre studies type things).

On top of this, I've been working on several non-school projects... I've got one called "Henchmen" I'm hoping we'll be shooting on our own shortly with a few friends here in Vancouver, plus writing a pilot with a friend back in Edmonton (via msn, oh funtimes), PLUS with that same friend an actor friend (and a few filmly-inclined friends that are less involved), working on a soon-to-be you-tube short (and by soon, I mean Octoberish), and then a series of shorts with that same group.

And now, in school, we're writing our own TV pilots, starting a second movie, rewriting each other's sitcoms, and as I mentioned, going into production on our port-shorts.

I really do wish I was here more often, but I've just been incredibly busy with school. And drinking.

BTW... I suck at pitching. For some reason I start shaking and get nervous, and it's real embarassing. I was told that drinking could help loosen me up. Yes, I'm at a school where "drink before you come to class" is advice the teachers give me. I reall am not complaining.

But I will try to be more regular. I love the tv.com community, and really do wish to be more involved in it. For one reason or another, though, I've always been absent-ish... even before school here, I guess. Maybe one day that would change, I certainly hope it does.