Fusing the Medium and the Message
Welcome to the writing of Drew Turney, showcasing recent work I've done for publications and institutions throughout Australia. Select a link from the random sample below that interests you or suits your publication, or use the menu to browse by category or sub-category. If the short excerpt sounds good, click the title to read the whole story.How can this site help you? By showing you my abilities in researching and writing stories that are engaging and easy to understand, skills over a dozen magazines and publications across Australia call on regularly.
My parallel career in design and computers is the basis for my technology writing. I'm putting my love of movies and books to practical use in film and book reviews and am talking to the personalities in publishing and filmmaking as well as reporting on the art and business of both crafts. I'm also writing general features on everything from celebrities and business to ideas and culture.
I've written over 15 novels,
dozens of short stories, poetry, a journal now in its 18th year and countless
other pieces of random creative thought. If you're curious about any of my
imaginative, creative or fiction writing, contact me.
January 23rd, 2003
By now, you'll have heard how fantastic 8 Mile is, and what an astounding actor Eminem has proven himself. Doubtless the film will skyrocket into the troposphere of acclaim because nobody can deny he's one of the most prominent cultural forces in the Western world today.
August 1st, 2008
A design must be conceived, drawn, lit and then rendered. The difference is that your desktop PC can render a simple animation, while the lighting, colouration and detail necessary to make animated characters of scenes in movies look real takes considerably more rendering power.
May 1st, 2009
Some would guess it’s the printing press. With far more individual ‘bits’ of colour in a given area, the possibility to produce finer combinations of inks allows for far more detail and a smaller order of magnitude between shades.
May 28th, 2009
Shy, retiring modern guy Fletch (Corden) is under the thumb of his bitchy girlfriend. His comic sidekick mate Jimmy (Horne) talks him into going on a hiking holiday to get away from it all, so they pierce the dark, eerie woods near a rural town straight out of An American Werewolf in London, complete with a pub full of grizzled, socially backward locals who know of a terrible curse that’s befallen the village centuries ago.
June 18th, 2009
Occasionally you realise the genre can rise above the forgettable standards set by most films in it, and as The Proposal shows, only one thing can do so, and that’s people with chemistry who know how to be funny.
November 1st, 2009
So the pair take flight to find a hometown that feels right, calling on friends and relatives around North America in a series of vignettes that teach them how not to be good parents. Between the goofy, talky soccer mum (Janney) to the extreme Aquarian hippie (Gyllenhaal), the two end up more confused than they started.
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