William R. Gardner

Hi Everybody,

The second half of 2008 was spent:

1. Completing Kid Wars 9 and the entire trilogy!  You can see the trilogy at http://www.wrgardner.com/film/KidWars, but the final episode will only be viewable after the premier on December 23rd.
2. Schlepping 3 kids to soccer games, soccer practices, baseball batting cages, baseball games, sax lessons, and band practice.
3. A little bit of consulting.
4. Trips to Oregon, Virginia, and New Jersey.

Happy Holidays!

Bill

Hi Everybody,

The first half of 2008 was spent:

1. Completing Kid Wars 8!  It’s too big for web distribution, so let me know if you want to receive a DVD of Kid Wars 7, Kid Wars 8, and a trailer of Kid Wars 9 (to be completed by the end of the year, I hope).
2. Fixing drywall in the house where a big water leak occurred. 
3. Scorekeeping and helping the coaches of Alex’s Little League team (MinorA Champions!).
4. Doing some legal consulting from time to time.

I’m hoping to submit something for DVC13 in June, to work on some video stuff for my brother’s 50th birthday, to complete Kid Wars 9, and to get the family 2007 DVD done before the end of 2008.

Bill

This Fall I’ll be focusing on creating the sequel to Kid Wars.  This one will have a lot more special effects (both hand crafted and computer generated).  I hope to complete shooting it this Fall and have it edited sometime in 2008. 

More info to come.

Bill

What’s happening this summer:

1. Helping Vikram shoot and edit the pilots for The India Street video blog.

2. Shooting Kid Wars 8?

3. Finishing up mixing and mastering the acoustic album, “Roots”, by The Railheads.

4. Editing a personal photo montage for my grandmother’s 90th birthday.

5. Finishing the third and final edit of Bad Luck Bill.

6. Still trying to finalize the script structure for a few different feature length scripts.

Unfortunately, my video storage RAID0 drive on my editing workstation just crashed, so I also need to see what if anything I can recover from it…

Cheers,

Bill

I’ve recently completed two short films which are now available online.

“The Remote = Control” is my entry for the DV Challenge #8 film competition.  The film won second place.  We had 2 weeks to complete a film using the theme “Television.”  You can see the result at the following link.

http://www.wrgardner.com/film/RemoteControl

“Kid Wars” is a Star Wars fan film I put together for my 9 year old son and a few of his friends.  You can see it at the following link.

http://www.wrgardner.com/film/KidWars

Cheers,

Bill

Jason Gordon, star of Love Bites and Sun Burns, passed away in February at the all-too-young age of 44.  We’ll miss him.  To see some of his work, check out the following links:

http://www.wrgardner.com/film/LoveBites

http://www.wrgardner.com/film/SunBurns

Bill

Stuff going on in March, 2007:

1. Shooting and editing “Kid Wars”, the Star Wars related short film with Alex and a few of his friends.  Expect it for release in April.

2. Prepping for The DV Challenge #8 in late April.  Send me an email if you’re interested in participating.

3. Prepping videos and stills for my parents 50th wedding anniversary celebration the 2nd week in April.  Converting all of their old 8mm film, Super8mm film, and many still photos to DVD with commentary.  Boy, this takes a lot more work than I expected!

4. Still chewing on that idea for the next feature length script.  Did a bunch of research and now I just need to find time to start laying it out on index cards.

5. Helping to coach Alex’s baseball team (MinorB Tigers at http://www.delmarlittleleague.com, in case you’re interested )

Bill

1. Starting some research for a new, long script. 

2. Planning on filming a short film for Alex and his friends based on a Star Wars light saber battle.

3. Helped out Brian Bradshaw and friends with their short production of “With This Ring…”.

Bill

1. Finished up the edit and re-edit for “Bad Luck Bill”, which was submitted to the HBO Comedy Film Festival in Aspen.
2. Wrapped “The Wishing Well” shoot.
3. Quickly (in ~3 days) shot and edited “Tanks for the Memories” for the DVC7 online film competition.  I didn’t have enough time for proper effects or sound design, but some of the visuals are pretty cool, thanks to the props and lighting from the folks in my Staging and Lighting classes.  It came in 4th out of 25 films.
4. Working on the Lake Powell 2000 video for Scott Swazey.
5. Working on the family DVD for 2006.
6. Hoping to get back to writing some short and long form scripts.

Cheers,

Bill

1. Currently in post-production for the short comedy “Bad Luck Bill” (not referring to me), written, produced, and directed by Kelly Sarber.  I’m DP and editor on this one.

2. Currently in pre-production for the short dramedy “The Wishing Well,” written, produced, and directed by Lisa Merrill.  I’m slated to be DP on that one…

3. Finishing up (hopefully) some classes on Lighting and Art Direction for film.

4. Trying to get back to writing some longer scripts, and working with Vikram Yashpal on this a bit.

Bill