While my prose definitely needs work (which is evident by the 180 page novel I have sitting on my computer's hard drive collecting metaphorical dust), I believe the ability to develop and tell a good and sometimes intricate story is one of my strengths. For my creative project, I will be shooting and acting in a mockumentary about a divorced, middle-aged vampire hunter with a goofy New York-like accent, a beer gut, a comb over, and a penchant for foul language and crude jokes.
This idea has been rolling around in my head for almost ten years now, and I have written several screenplays about this character, Wally Swayzek. He is also the subject of the book I am currently writing. Now, my ultimate goal is to someday make a fairly big budgeted film about Wally, but right now that is obviously not feasible. So instead I am taking the low budget, mockumentary approach and placing my character with a small film crew which will film and only sometimes interact with him as he goes through his daily activities and culminating in a vampire hunt that doesn't exactly go to plan.
Even though this project is a long way's away, I have already begun to plan some things out, including a script (I hope to have the first draft done by Christmas '09). For the film, I will be purchasing my own camera to film in my home town of Orland Park, Illinois. I have already started to save up for the film's expenses, and I am also willing to use my credit card to finance the film as well.
Well, I think that is enough about my creative project for now, but count on reading several more updates about the pre-pre-pre-production of this film in the very near future.
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