With my thoughts turning to the idea of directing SToA, I suddenly realised that my limited experience of stage directing (a long time ago) would serve no useful purpose whatsoever. I understand cinematography, I understand basic composition and blocking. But until now I’ve yet to give direction to a proper actor on a set with …
Monthly Archive: January 2005
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31
Jan
25
I give you… Miss Logic
Had a second meeting with Nicky today. She had been quite lenient with the red pen I felt, all in all. One critical flaw in the screenplay she did point out was the lack of a ‘logic’ character – everyone was busy intuitising their way through the story, no one was pointing out that they …
Jan
21
Project Gertrude is Go!
Well I had my first ‘production meeting’ with Nicky yesterday. She is very keen to help out with making SToA, and is generally positive about the new draft of the script. She has gone away to attack it with her red pen and come up with some comments. We’ve agreed the first stage is to …
Jan
17
Dead Wood?
Friday saw further fortunate turns of events. First thing in the morning, I discovered that Nicky, the daughter of Angela the administrative assistant in our office, is now working at our place having just left uni with a degree in Film! So I rushed downstairs and said to her, ‘wanna make a movie?’ and she …
Jan
13
Exciting times
There’s a local actor by the name of Kenneth Colley who Star Wars aficionados will recognise as Admiral Piett and Month Python fans will recognise as Jesus from the Life of Brian. More recently he’s been seen in Eastenders in an extended bit part (I don’t watch it but I understand he was playing a …
Jan
11
SToA v2 Complete
Yay! Version 2 of Secret Thoughts of Angels hits the old drawer for it’s maturation period (I think I’ll just give it a week as I want to get on and make it sooner rather than later). And it’s bang on twelve pages, which has pleased me no end (I’m sure I can shave that …
Jan
06
Listen to Eeyore
Well, I’ve finished plotting the new, improved Secret Thoughts of Angels – sticking more rigidly than I intended to to the Dramatica PSR. I’ve deliberately erred on the side of caution, because there are a few elements I still need to throw into the mix during the writing phase and I want to ensure that …
Jan
04
Shooting People
I signed up to the amusingly named filmmaking network, Shooting People, last night as it seemed like a worthwhile venture. Looking at some of the mails I got through this morning from them, it looks like it was twenty bob well spent, with hundreds of people in the South East participating. Excellent stuff. Did more …
Jan
01
New Years Resolutions
As I suspected, Christmas proved to be mad, with very little writing time. And in an effort to restore some sanity to my world, I resisted doing anything for at least a week. The break proved beneficial as I’m really raring to go. I’ve spent the last evening or two tinkering with Dramatica and my …