Biografia
My name is Joe. I am a Writer, Director, and Producer with credits for TV series, TV Movies, and Feature Films, and a lifetime membership in the Writers Guild of Canada.
THE HIJACKING OF STUDIO 4.
My first screenplay, based upon my experiences at TVOntario, was bought by a Canadian producer who would make Roger Corman blush. The deal was, I could direct it, but first I had to produce and direct another TVMovie which had less than a shoestring budget, including a battle scene. That was "Deadly Pursuit" aka "The Commando Game."
My project, "The Hijacking of Studio 4," was next, a multi-camera shoot coordinating cameras, action, and dialogue in the studio simultaneously with cameras, action, and dialogue in the control room.
Like most filmmakers, I am constantly running ahead of my resources, so those projects become screenplays in waiting. One screenplay I am most eager to make is a twisted retelling of the Pied Piper legend. Eager to the extent of commissioning Paul Schultz to illustrate a graphic novel version of the screenplay, creating a storyboard for the film. "The Piper" a graphic novel set in the future past.
Some others I turned into prose, published in a collection called "5 Fables for the Young at Heart."
ROMEO AND JULIET In order to understand what, more than star-crossed suicidal lovers and elegant language, made Shakespeare's ever popular play "Romeo and Juliet" so beloved, I fell down a rabbit hole uncovering what lay long buried beneath rhyme, reverence, and rigidity because of words and phrases long out of date, and came out the other side publishing 3 prose interpretations of his plays.
"Madmen Have No Ears" (aka Romeo and Juliet) "Imogen" (aka Cymbeline) "Not To Be" (aka Hamlet)
MEDIA LITERACY To introduce the filmmaking process to storytellers from other disciplines I conducted a course for McMaster University "Storytelling_OnScreen"
PIT & PENDULUM This was a film we could make on a modest budget as long as we did all the grunt work, so we did. We built and painted the set from scrap-wood and sweat. We sourced our talent locally, and called in favours wherever we could. To keep editing costs down, I got to know Premiere Pro very well and eventually became somewhat proficient in After Effects. For audio we had the help of students and friends.
The central drive behind "Pit & Pendulum" was its use of the power of cinema to let the author's words imprint vivid descriptions in the Audience's mind so they can fill in the visual details themselves.
I create the kind of stories I like to see. Enlightened entertainment.
I create in Hamilton, Ontario, the perfect film location.
Gaudet is Latin for "be happy."
