Thursday, June 22, 2006

Next video and for Dianna...

I am set to direct a video for The Album Leaf, for their new album coming out in September. The track is incredible. I've had a lot of frustration lately with the world of music videos, but the fact that this was a song that I really liked myself means that I guess I'm right - it's only when I really connect with the song that it's apparent to everyone else that it might work. I hope I do the song proud.

As for my novel... It might end in catastrophic failure but as I studied writing and literature in Ireland where they know English better than the Queen, they say, I've always promised myself I would do this at least once, even if it ended up nowhere. Part of it is a reaction to having to write for films (thinking how I'll direct the thing) always taking into consideration how I would actualize in physical reality the image. This reigns in my imagination a lot. Which can be a good thing. But I wanted to just take the brakes off and play with language and some really large ideas.

Originally I wanted it to be a graphic novel with Carson Ellis, but Carson's way too busy. Back then it was more baroque and simplistic, but had the same central idea. Walla happened to be around as I was discussing it with Carson and he suggested I read the Phillip Pullman His Dark Materials books as soon as I finished talking without skipping a beat. Two years later the thing continuted to gestate in my head, and become very not simple, and all this interior psychology to its characters exploded to me, and I didn't get around to those books until this last winter. And I wrote about them here I believe, I was so amazed by them. I was pleased to find that it wasn't what I was planning (sadly, it was better and more powerful and more brilliant than I could ever hope for) or thinking along the lines of, but Chris understood I think the way I wanted to write something revisionist about childhood fables and the ones that were handed to us.

Here's the first sentence as it is now. "Something chimed. She thought of the Angelus, prayers, alarm clocks."

The Narnia books piss me off something fierce.

Anyway it's going on the back burner for awhile. I have to get this video rolling. Seriously happy to have Rob Ryang and Tarin Anderson back on board. Wish us luck....

2 Comments:

Blogger kevathens said...

Good luck! lol on the Narnia

June 24, 2006 1:26 PM  
Anonymous Dianna said...

I look forward to it, catastrophic failure or (hopefully) otherwise.

June 28, 2006 12:59 AM  

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