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RON AND NANCY HAVE ARRIVED!
Last week I finally finished editing my new short comedy Ron and
Nancy, after many, many hours of After Effects and Final Cut work. I'm proud of the
results and I hope you will find it entertaining. After several lengthy attempts at uploading the
HD video to various sites, I've decided that good old YouTube is the venue with the best video
quality. So I will direct you there now. Click here to watch Ron and Nancy! If you enjoy it, I'd appreciate a 5-star
vote from you on YouTube. And I'd really appreciate it if you could share the link with
your friends. I'm trying to get a lot of people to see this film. Why? Well, duh. But I do think
it's very funny, and actors Erika Godwin and Tyler Rhoades have put in wonderful work that
deserves to be seen.
Meanwhile, Little Lotto, the 35-minute film that I wrote last November, has now been
completed. I have yet to see the final version but I'm told that it is good. As I mentioned last
month, if the film plays at any festivals, I will report it here. What's most important about the
film's completion is that the people who made the film happen are really, really happy with it,
and keen to talk about moving forward with a feature-length motion picture. It's way too early to
know what my involvement with this feature might be, if anything, but naturally I'll keep you
updated.
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WHERE ARE RON AND NANCY?
Happy 2010 to you. It already seems like a year of sadness and trouble in the world, but you can
rest assured that at least I am still here and still making movies. Though I must apologize for
not finishing my new short comedy Ron and Nancy by the end of
2009, as I had promised. In November and December I got a ton of freelance work, which took me
away from the project for a while. There were the usual design gigs, but I was also hired to
write a screenplay. It is for a "featurette" - for I can't really call a 35-to-40-minute film
a "short" - tentatively titled Little Lotto. It's a family drama about a blind priest who
habitually buys one lottery ticket each week. When he loses a ticket one Saturday afternoon, he
shrugs it off - until he later discovers that it's worth $58.5 million. Unbeknownst to him,
however, the ticket is found by a young member of his congregation who doesn't know who bought the
ticket. It's a story about ethical decisions, and I think it turned out rather well. It was
produced and directed by my good friend Brian McLaughlin, who shot it in the Chicago area last
month. Brian had originally asked me to direct it, but I didn't want to be in Chicago in the
winter, especially when I had so many other projects that I was working on at home. But I'm happy
to say that I was actually paid for my script, something I wasn't sure I'd ever be able to say
again. The film is now in post production and I have high hopes for it. If it plays in any venue
where you can see it, I will let you know.
Now my time has freed up and I am working on some of Ron and
Nancy's surprisingly complicated special effects shots before I dive into the actual
editing. The shots, goofy as they may be, are turning out well, but with just me and After Effects
on my rickety old computer, it's a slow journey. It is certainly my intention, though, that when I
check in here again, it will be after the film is finished and ready for your viewing pleasure.
Click here for Development Updates from 2009.
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