Brian McDonald
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Brian Keith McDonald (born February 18, 1965) is an American screenwriter, director, teacher and author, who lives in the state of Washington.
McDonald is best known for the books Invisible Ink, The Golden Theme and Ink Spots, and for the short film White Face.
Early life
Brian McDonald was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on February 18, 1965. He was named after his mother's favorite actor, Brian Keith. He has two younger brothers and a younger sister. McDonald lived in Denver, Colorado until the age of seven. After his parents divorced, he moved to Seattle, Washington with his mother.
One of his teachers suggested that he had a learning disability; McDonald learned that he was dyslexic when he was around twenty years old.
As a child, he used a cassette recorder to tape television shows, then watched them repeatedly "to see what made them tick." McDonald made his first film, The War, which featured green plastic Army men in battle, when he was 10 years old.
Career
McDonald began his first film-related work as a youth in Seattle, working for Bruce Walters' company Trickfilm in Seattle, creating animated titles, motion graphics, and effects for commercials. McDonald continued working with other Seattle-based animators until he was 21 years old when Walters began working with Industrial Light and Magic in 1983. He interned for Alpha Cine labs, including Bruce Vecchitto in the FX and title department and the Tennesson/Tobin Animation Studio.
He went from Seattle to Los Angeles in 1986. Ted Rae's first film appearance in Los Angeles was with him in Night of the Creeps (1986), where he was a runner who assisted in constructing the Creeps. He worked as a fabricator on Dead Heat, Return of the Living Dead Part II, and Night of the Demons in 1988. McDonald appeared on The Resurrection, a 1992 horror film, and as a production assistant on Sleepless in Seattle (1993). He has appeared in other "creative" films without receiving screen credits.
Ron Pearson, a stand-up comedian and old friend, was producing speculative screenplays, comic books, and parody jokes at the same time. He began working casually as a comedian, doing his own stuff a few weeks ago. McDonald has referred to himself as a "poor stand-up" but cites his education as a "ton about audiences and communication."
He returned to Seattle in 1993 after seven years of struggling in Los Angeles, juggling jobs in film, comedy, and comic book writing. He began teaching screenwriting at the 911 Media Arts Center, where he began teaching screenwriting at the 911 Media Arts Center.
McDonald wrote a book based on the classes he taught about the "near-demand of a student and the assistance of a friend." In 2005, it was finished, he called it Invisible Ink. When he was struggling to find a publisher, he gave students copies of the manuscript and delivered the manuscript to a Pixar friend, Derek Thompson.
In a single sitting, Andrew Stanton, who was working with Thompson, read McDonald's book and later said it helped him with Wall-E. He gave a blurb about the book and then told the Pixar University workers that McDonald will be able to teach a class there. Since 2006, McDonald has taught writing classes at Pixar, Disney, and Industrial Light and Magic.
McDonald produced White Face, a mockumentary short film made in 2001. It was on display at the 2001 Slamdance Film Festival, where it received the Audience Award for Best Short. He said he made the film as a "work sample" in order to "show off" his directing and writing skills. Since being on HBO and Cinemax, it has been used in businesses around the country as a diversity training aid and is now available on DVD. McDonald has also produced numerous online advertisements for Visa Inc.
In 2002, he was a cameraman on Elixirs & Remedies, a music documentary.
In 2010, the Libertary Company of Seattle (later known as Booktrope) published Invisible Ink and The Golden Theme.
Freeman - A Novella in Screenplay Form was released in 2011, followed by Ink Spots, a collection of posts on his The Invisible Ink blog from years ago. McDonald began working with Tom Skerritt and the US Army as part of the Red Badge project, which encouraged veterans to share their stories.