Carpe PM

You may have noticed that I have links on this site pointing to a comic that doesn’t exist. Here’s the new layout that will be used for this comic. The project originally evolved as a tv cartoon series. We also decided to make comics and first develop a target audience via the internet. So far, we haven’t revelaed anything. Hence, nobody knows about the project or the story. So, if I find this fabled thing called time. We should have web comics coming out once a week in the near future.

Here are some mockups of the future site:

That’s right. iTunes is not a very intuitive application. For example, if you have one user name and multiple iPods, there is no way to quickly organize exactly what music is uploaded to each iPod. Sure, you can restrict yourself to specific playlists, but it should also allow you to setup folders with playlist and restrict the iPod to downloading those folders. The only good solution for the two people I was helping was to create two windows accounts. This multiuser issue is not my main crit of iTunes. Instead, Where in the world is the interface. It feels like walking through a marsh in comparison to the iPod’s interface. Why isn’t iTunes organized just like the iPods music section. That would be excellent!

In comparison, we can look at google’s picasa. This application is an amazing photo organizer and then some. While, it doesn’t have to connect with an iPod, it does connect to cameras and remember which photos have already been uploaded to the computer and which are new photos. Although, it is not really good at reorganizing the photos into separate folders, it does allow you to label multiple photos, thereby grouping all of your photos into sets if it’s not already organized.

I guess nothing is perfect in the world.

The hardest part about writing scripts is not coming out with a story idea, but coming up with an outline. I’m at the outline stage of my creation process. This is the toughest part. It usually runs smoothly as a brain-storming session. So, I’ll probably meet with one of my friends and generate the specific incidents and such that talk place. After this, the writing process now flows out of me. I can write twenty page scripts in about two days, and long as I have the journey pre-created in an outline form.

After I get the script written, I’ll be calling a company named Full Compass to setup the costs of filming with some of their rental equipment. This is going to be the first attempt at the Sundance Film Festival. I want it to be a reflection of my personal style, and still retain a Classical Hollywood Cinema look. I feel inspired by movies, such as Rain. It has an eight minute dolly shot that moves from inside a house out around a ranch style porch.

A word to the wise:
Avoid summer classes like the plague if possible. Mine ends next week on the 10th. I’m just about at the point where you start counting the days. Afterwards, I’m off to write a 15 page script.

I’m making a short film after my class ends on the tenth. Plans for it are coming together quickly. I have a construction company who;s for it. This leaveThis means that I’ll be pulling all nighters so I can make the Sundance deadline. It’ll be the quickest made short film for Sundance ever. I hope to hit the fifteen minute mark. So, in the mean time I have a class to finish up. My grandparents up in de nort have been married for sixty years this weekend. I’ll be visiting them then.