Filmmaking 101 Part 5 – Casting & Crew & Catering, Oh My!

Story Boards

Filmmaking 101 is a series of articles I’m writing for Life As A Human. Please check out the full article over there. Once upon a time I decided that it would be a really swell idea to write a series of articles on the making of my first short film. As you can see from the months [...]

Filmmaking 101 – The Pre-Production Dance Of Insanity

Comedy-and-Tragedy

Filmmaking 101 is a series of articles I’m writing for Life As A Human. Please check out the full article over there. I haven’t written a new blog post in so long because nothing has happened. Or nothing good, anyway. Why write a post describing all the false starts and retracted promises that have been plaguing Curtains? It [...]

Filmmaking 101 (Part 1) – So You Wanna Make a Movie

Rusty Projector

Filmmaking 101 is a series of articles I’m writing for Life As A Human. Please check out the full article over there. I’m making a movie. That’s something I never thought I’d say! Who am I to make a movie? Who do I think I am? I never attended film school. I don’t know anyone [...]

Show Me The Money!

Circus 1890

So, how classy is this? I don’t update my blog FOREVER (read: five months, which is forever in internet years). Then, when I finally sit down to form a post, the first thing I do is ask for money. Super, duper, trouper classy. I know it. Don’t think of it as me asking for money. [...]

The Long Journey To An Oscar Starts With A Single Step

TheBirds

My dreams of becoming a famous film maker date back to high school. My friends and I saw group assignments as an invitation to whip out the video camera and make a (we thought) hilarious movie. This was the mid 90s, so by “whip out” I mean “beg to borrow my uncle’s 100 pound camera that probably cost [...]

Election day from behind the desk

Can-vote-stub

Remember that thing we* all did last Monday? That time we followed the yellow arrows into an elementary school or shriners temple or seniors home, showed our two pieces of identification, stood behind a cardboard screen, scribbled an X on a piece of paper, and popped it into a box, and then walked away feeling [...]

Girl Meets Canada: The Stupid Things I Did In Golden

Desired vs Actual Path

Day 20 (Saturday, May 29) For someone who loves to travel as much as I do, I have a horrible sense of direction. I mean really, really bad. When Angie and I were in Europe, if we were ever lost she would ask me what way I thought we should go. Then she would lead [...]

Girl Meets Canada: The Longest Ferry EVER

PortHardyFerry

Day 6-7 (May 15th-16th) I’ve always wanted to go to Prince Rupert. It’s weird, I know. The few people I’ve met that are from there are all WHY! WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO GO THERE VOLUNTARILY? WHY!!?!?!?! And then they grab me by the shoulders and shake me until my head rolls. Part of the [...]

Girl Meets Canada: We Have Achieved Take Off!

TomTom

So, did I mention that I’m driving across Canada this summer? I think I may have failed to do so. I’ve been thinking about it for so long, I just assumed that everyone else knew. The whole world. Hi, world! I was planning on blogging about the trip with some sort of regularity. But here [...]

Life As A Human Article: Old Girl, New Tricks — International Guitar Month Feature

(View full article at Life As A Human) Last week found me standing outside of the Long & McQuade Music Education Centre, knuckles white from the double-handed death grip on my guitar case handle, stomach churning and brain regretting eating lunch a mere three hours earlier. Why? I thought to myself. Why, oh why, am [...]