The production meeting last night went exceptionally well. Everyone bought into the idea of the script and was happy (more or less) with their assigned roles, so now we have a full micro-budget film crew. We’ve agreed to get together on the 21st/22nd May for a weekend for a ‘technical rehearsal’ weekend. The main idea …

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So said the guru of independent film making in the UK, Chris Jones, to a group of about forty or so of us who turned up at the Metropole Galleries to listen to him this afternoon. It was a very inspirational talk he gave, but also a very honest one. I’m sure more than a …

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Have arranged a SToA kick off meeting for next Monday at eight. Also have hopefully secured the first of the locations, by asking the site director here at work if we can use an office for some of the scenes. He agreed in principle, pending further details from myself about how we were going to …

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Bought How to Make Your Movie completely on the off chance the other day, and found it to be very good so far… I’ll do a full review once I worked my way through it. As ever I seem to be taking two steps forward and one back at the moment. Still waiting to hear …

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Somewhat irritatingly, the server this runs on seems to have got a bit confused with its cgi-bin, so I’ve decided to get back to my roots and use a PHP powered blog system. I’d already tried WordPress and wasn’t overly impressed, so I thought I’d try Serendipity or S9Y and they seem to want to …

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I’ve finally finished reading Judith Weston’s first book, ‘Directing Actors’. Boy, what a gem that book is. Now I’m starting on her secong book, the Director’s Intuition. She claims to have not repeated anything from the first book, and it’s twice as thick! I might finish it by Christmas… Still, the first book has really …

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I’ve just been looking through the Talent Circle e-mail bulletin and found a useful link to the Manhatten Film Festival. The submission deadline is the 31st July, which gives us approximately three months to make and edit SToA and get it off to the States. Probably a bit of an unrealistic deadline, but one thing …

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