“The Eyes of Death”

Buy Now on Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692048332?… When Hannah Powers sustains a head injury, her prom queen world turns from white to black. During her best friend, Emily’s funeral, she sees a white-gray ghost image radiating around Emily’s casket, but no outline around Emily. This convinces Hannah that she is brain damaged even though her neuropsychologist tells her she is not. Then, she is plunged into a terrifying world of being able to predict death before it happens without being able to do anything about it. Donald L. Vasicek is an award-winning writer/filmmaker. He has written, ghostwritten and published over 500 books and articles on writing and screenwriting. His documentary film, “The Sand Creek Massacre”, won Best Film in 3 film festivals, was awarded the prestigious Golden Drover Award and was cataloged into Smithsonian Libraries.

Juxtaposing in Writing

by
Donald L. Vasicek

Don Vasicek

Juxtaposing in writing and screenwriting is most effective if you think in terms of what film is. Film is a visual medium. Therefore, the writer/screenwriter must write visually. Writing visually includes striving to “show” rather than “tell” the story and the characters. The most powerful way to do this is to utilize the mingling of opposites or a dichotomy.

For example, if you have a character who represents evil in your story, then juxtaposing your “hero” or main character in your story to this kind of “villain” [in fiction, villains do not have any redeeming characteristics while the antagonist in your story should have, at least, 1 redeeming characteristic) should represent good, the opposite of evil, and thus, a dichotomy.

In summary, the most effective use of juxtaposing in movies, is what is totally opposite of each other, whether that is characters, objects, locations, etc. This kind of juxtaposing creates conflict, and in fiction, if there is no conflict, there is no drama, and the resulting effect of that is a flat story with no energy. Some would call this kind of story/film/movie, boring.

I hope this is of help to you.

Best Regards,
Don Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC/The Zen of Writing

http://www.donvasicek.com

Sand Creek Massacre Educational Screenings

Screenings/Interviews
(“The Sand Creek Massacre” is an award-winning documentary short film. “Ghosts of Sand Creek”, which is in development, is a feature length motion picture):

The Indie Gathering Film Festival – Cleveland, OH

Trail Dance Film Festival – Duncan, Oklahoma
(Winner, Best Native American Film)
American Indian Film Festival – Rice University – Houston, TX
(Winner, Best Native American Film Short)
The Heard Museum Film Festival – Phoenix, AZ
Metropolitan State College of Denver – Denver, CO
Walnut Hills Elementary School – 4th Grade – Centennial, CO
Broomfield Independent Film Series – Broomfield, CO
Estes Park Film Festival – Estes Park, CO
American Indian Genocide Museum – Houston
Phillip S. Miller Library Bull Theater Project – Castle Rock, CO
Watonga, Oklahoma Schools – Watonga, Oklahoma
California Center for Native Americans – San Bernardino, CA
Houston CTV, HCCT-  Houston
Los Angeles Paxico Projection Series – Los Angeles, CA
The Bug Theater – Denver, CO
New York/Tribeca Monday Night Shorts – New York/Tribeca
Stars in the Desert Film Festival – Tuba City, Arizona
Duke University Center for Documentary Studies/The Happening Film Festival – Durham, NC
DCTV/Colorado Reel/TV – Denver, CO
LA Comcast/Time Warner/The Gigi Iam Show – Los Angeles, CA
Docu-Link NY/LA/London Shooting People – New York/London
The Denver Indian Center – Denver, CO
Indianer Inuit:  The North American Native Film Festival – Berlin, Germany
Thailand Kasetsart University
George Mason University – Virginia
Philadelphia DUTV – Philadelphia, PA
Boston Ruff Cutz Film Festival – Boston, MA
Los Angeles Entertainment Conference – Los Angeles
New York DCTV – New York, NY
Festival Cicio de Cine Chicano – University of Houston – Houston, TX
Videographers of America
Hayden Film Festival
Pan American Film Festival
Rhode Island College Multicultural/Unity Center
PBS KBDI Channel 12 “Colorado Inside Out”
Staten Island Muddy Cup – Staten Island, NY
Moondance International Film Festival – Boulder, CO
Tribal Libraries Institute – Montana State University – Bozeman, Montana
Federal Heights Elementary School – 4th Grade – Denver, Colorado
Broomfield Middle School – Broomfield, Colorado
University of Denver – Denver, Colorado
Cheyenne & Arapaho Veterans Memorial Day El Reno, Oklahoma 2017
55 Libraries in United States
42 U. S. Tribal Libraries

Interviews:
“Indian Country”
“16:9 Splice”
Colorado Film and Video Association Newsletter
“The Villager”
“The Indiewood Reporter”
Hollywood Lit. Sales
“Colorado Springs Gazette”
“The Denver Post”
“Native Biz”
“Centennial Citizen”

Radio Interviews:
EarthCycles.net
CFWE.ca Radio Canada
“Dance with Life” Magazine

Educational Screenings and Viewings
http://sandcreekmassacre.net/1427-2/

Donald L. Vasicek
OLYMPUS FILMS+, LLC
The Zen of Writing/Filmmaking/Consulting
http://michaelc.nextmp.net/wordpress
dvasicek@earthlink.net
303-903-2103
“You must be the change you want to see in the  world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi