Writing on Note Cards

Apparently I really, really enjoy writing/drawing on note cards…

Ever since I decided to quasi update my blog with a new design and add a few design odds and ends just to refresh my look, I realized that I had to overhaul the designs on several things: resume and cover letter templates, random fonts that were being used, and most importantly my demo reel.
It’s been a length of time since last I revisited my demo reel. Originally I just wanted to do a quick and easy edit or two and move on. Then I watched it. I was noticing mistakes left, right, and center with a few of my projects! Yikes! In short, I was a bit horrified. I can do better than that! As my wonderful cousin recently heard, and conveyed to me, “If you can’t look at the past and cringe a little, you have not grown.” Which, to me, made a lot of sense as I progress in my skills and I can’t look at old projects and not cringe even a little bit. So there has to be a bit a truth behind it… or at least I would like to think so!

I did have a new project lined up, story boarded out, reference shots recorded, but it’ll be put on a slight hiatus until I improve my demo reel. They are mostly minor tweaks (all written on note cards…) and hopefully that it helps in me having a stronger reel in the end.

Storyboard: Climbing a Drainpipe

Color me optimistic but I’m going to try to trick myself into doing this. I quickly sketched out a storyboard I had in my head for a while and I’m hoping to start on it soon because I think it has potential for good, somewhat comedic, acting.

The idea is that the character (cat burglar?) will climb up a drain pipe and it suddenly snaps off the wall due to weight and tension, and in a bit will slowly creep further away from the wall, inciting fear in the character in a last ditch effort to grab the wall/something on the wall. The drainpipe ultimately falls out of the frame along with the character.

Short and sweet. An exercise in weight + pulling. A bit of anticipation and timing… It will be good.