Daily Monotony – 2009 done. 2010 let’s do this.

Wednesday 2 December 2009 - Filed under Daily Monotony

I’m not really one to use my blog to post about my life, Mainly because I am aware of how non-exciting my life is (as Daily Monotony implies.)  But I thought it nearing the end of the year I’d post a little round up of sorts.

In an amazing turn of events I was actually employed for the entirety of 2009, which is a rarity in my industry (usually I’ll have a couple months off spread out through the year.)  Guess I am starting to earn a reputation as someone who knows what they are doing, or at least someone who can fake it and shows up to work on time.  The best part of it all is that the two movies I’ve worked on this year are ones I’m actually excited to see.  Cabin In The Woods & Sucker Punch (2011 is going to be a good year for movies).

What I’m most excited about though is that I finally got off my ass and produced a project of my own.  I wrote the pilot for a sitcom called The Best I Got, that I went on the develop into a full series idea with my friend James Cochrane.  Needless to say we all felt it was good enough to put some time and money into to shoot a presentation piece for the first episode.  So over the last weekend in March and the first weekend in April (while we were all still working our regular 14 hour a day jobs) we shoot the pilot.  And now we’ve been shopping it around to anyone, and everyone, who will read it.  Currently I have it out to a couple agents who are looking over it, as well as some friends of our who may have advice on what the next best step for getting it on the TV will be.  So who knows, maybe 2010 will see me having my own TV show.  But what really matters is that my friends and I made our first non film school project.

Beyond the occasional, shitty poem or stream of consciousness story I, post on this blog, I’ve been writing a lot more.  On top of writing episodes of The Best I Got, I’ve been working on a second TV show Idea that I am about half way through the Pilot episode of.  I’ve been working on my first Feature Film script as well, which is actually going really well right now.  And my friend James Cochrane and I have written a One Act play, The Night We Fucked The Apocalypse, which we hope to put on during the 2010 Vancouver Fringe Festival.  And most important of all, or at least most available to the public, I’ve been give a Monthly (soon to be bi-weekly in the new year) article in The Flying Shingle called A Modest Opinion, which has been far too entertaining to write.

I’ve decided to try and make 2010 a big year for me.  As some of you may know, and others probably don’t, there are a shit tonne of opportunities out there for the arts in BC.  So beyond trying to sell my TV show, and putting our play on in the 2010 Fringe, I’ve decided to try to get some other balls rolling.  In the next couple weeks James and I are going to be pitching a Short film he wrote for the 2010 Crazy 8′s, which if we get will give us some money and some production resources to make his script in 8 days.  It will be a lot of work, but a lot of fun as well.  I’ve decided to have my feature film done by the beginning of the new year, as around May there are a bunch of competitions and opportunities I hope to apply for in an attempt to move out of the Production Office and focus more on the creative side of film making.

So here’s to what was a great 2009, and what will hopefully be an even better 2010 (Thanks for reading my round up of my year, sorry if it was boring.)

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