I spent much of this week rereading and making copious notes from David Mamet’s ‘On Directing Film,’ a book which has had a huge impact on me. It’s been massive wake up call, making sense of a lot of what I’d learnt whilst making SToA, along with introducing and refining a lot of really cool …
Monthly Archive: January 2006
Jan
25
Adverts
It was nice to see someone in the industry echoing my thoughts on the extensive adverts we have to endure when going to see a film at the cinema. While unveiling a new logo for his distribution company Pictrehouse, Bob Berney commented that if Cinema chains wanted to survive the threat of Theatrical/DVD same day …
Jan
22
Cut!
I finished the new short screenplay on Thursday night and, at the time, I was very pleased with it. Now I haven’t seen it for a couple of days, I’m starting to doubt myself. Still I shall leave it until next weekend before I give in to the urge to read back through it. Then …
Jan
16
Stand-Off
Met up with Ben Shockley for lunch today and was introduced briefly to the great Ken Colley. He didn’t hang around for long but at least I got introduced which now puts one degree of separation between me and George Lucas and Clint Eastwood. I also got to meet two of Ben’s other friends, Denis …
Jan
15
Rejection!
A seminal moment in my life happened yesterday. I got my first rejection letter. It was from the Zombie Film crew. A generic letter that told me little beyond the fact that I didn’t get to pass Go and collect my £200. Can’t say I’m devastated, though, too much else to do. Architurus groans on …
Jan
08
Another Hamlet Moment
Another busy week draws to a close.† On top of the usual round of working and writing, I’ve been working on the Secret Thoughts of Angels web site.† It’s not complete yet, when it is I’ll post a link for you to all to look at (a clue for the impatient: I’m in the UK…).† …
Jan
01
Eh? Say what?
Happy New Year, one and all! My yuletide has been quite special this year, with family all at our house for the big day last Sunday followed by a few days of snow (the most we’ve had here for ages I think). So it was a good time for snowman building and sledging with our …