About Me
Myspace Layouts + Myspace GraphicsI have been a photojournalist since I was 17. I have worked in the music industry, the film industry, and have owned a video production company for the past 16 years. I am a songwriter, singer, and producer and have worked as an actor, unit production manager, and location manager in film. I have authored a book on the history of Peterbilt. I have been both a newspaper and national magazine editor, and in between I have done just about everything a person can do to make a living...concrete, carpentry, driveaway cars as in "Vanishing Point", been a web offset pressman, worked in darkrooms, been a commercial artist, dishwasher, Public Information Officer for the Forest Service....you get the idea...working since I was sixteen years old.The first feature I worked on was Billy Jack. I got hired as a driver in pre-production, and halfway through the film wound up being the transportation captain and the still photographer. The last feature I worked on was Creepshow II. I was the Location Manager in AZ and in Maine, and I did some Unit Production, and subbed in some of the shots as "The Wooden Indian". After that were years of shooting and cutting hundreds of cable commercials. I wrote, shot, cut and produced "A Mistress Called The Road" and did a ton of corporate image and training videos. I wrote, cut and partially shot "The Tom Whittaker Story, One Step at a Time" for Discovery with production partner Janson Films of New York. Whittaker was the first disabled person to summit Everest. The show is still broadcast from time to time worldwide.I was lucky enough to earn a Billboard Top Single Award working with Earl Thomas Conley (Fire & Smoke) and multiple awards for video production for documentary films as a writer, producer, shooter and editor. My main goals right now are completing a documentary on Bonneville Salt Flats racing, and getting back to producing some of my own music that has languished in the back of my mind since becoming a mortgage banker/broker. 911 had a huge impact on the blue chip corporate clients that were the mainstay of my production company, as did the stock market the following spring...and other interests were pursued in order to keep cash flowing...which led to the mortgage business as a means of keeping the wolves at bay...but which also kept me from the art and craft of music and film.A song writing pal of mine, Marianne Murdock said I should do MySpace...I checked it out...and here I am. I have a couple songs up at www.myspace.com/mdmorganmidnightmoonWhatever you do, if you really want something, NEVER, ever give up. Persistence is all! My first documentary earned seven awards including a "Worldfest Silver" A documentary about the emotional side of truck driving, "A Mistress Called The Road" took me five years of proposals, promotion, talking...and listening to everyone tell me over and over I would never get the money I needed to make it. one, and two, not only did no one care about the subject, no one would watch it or buy it. I sold over 10,000 copies mainly on the internet. It changed people's lives (though that was never the intent), it is shown in trucking schools all over the US and Canada despite the fact it is far from instructional in that sense, and it was broadcast on some of the biggest NPR networks in the US.It was a film I felt only I could make. One, I had the trucking fever. Two, I had the background in multiple disciplines others who might have had the idea probably didn't, and I knew I would keep working on it until it was done, where others might not be as tenacious and thick skinned as I am. The point is, you may be looking at a blank life with no tools or resources and think; "This is impossible." Well that is exactly what I had....an idea and absolutely nothing else and on the horizon, not a prayer in hell of getting it done...but I did get it done! And I did it with a wife and baby and teenage son. I'm not going to tell you it wasn't the hardest thing I've done, because for the most part it was...sometimes I felt like I was quite literally willing it into being...and maybe I did. But that's the point.The world is littered with people who gave up too soon! Don't do it.
