I finally made it along to a meeting of the Kent Film Kollective this evening. It’s a group of about 12 or so local writers, directors, actors and editors who are up for pitching together to make some low budget features (I think the vague game plan is to try to make four over the …
Monthly Archive: April 2006
Apr
26
Apr
25
Busy, busy, busy
The past few evenings have reaped great rewards in the work department, so I thought I’d share… First off, I got playing with the Cafe Press web site and knocked up some rather nifty Secret Thoughts of Angels merchandise. So if you’re in need of a fab new t-shirt or mug, why not support the …
Apr
23
SToA Revisited
Feedback so far on the first cut of HOD is on the whole, very positive. I’ve an ever growing list of changes I want to make but I don’t quite feel up to it yet. Perhaps Tuesday I’ll have a go at a second draft. I wasn’t happy with my initial efforts at grading SToA, …
Apr
18
Ooops
Conservative estimates on my part gave a rough running time of HOD to be about 6-7 minutes. The first cut is 14 minutes 23 seconds and that’s sticking exclusively to the script with no additional material thrown in for good measure. Granted it’s a bit flabby at the end, but even so, if the final …
Apr
17
Bounty Hunters…
I’m about half way though the first cut of HOD now, and it’s shaping up nicely. I’m pleased with the way the first sequence has turned out, and now I’m deep into the main scene with backgammon games and psychological warfare being waged. Tricky stuff to edit, but very absorbing. Anyway, just a short one …
Apr
11
Assembly
I sat down this evening for the first time in what seems like days to start putting together the assembly edit for House of Donn. It weighs in at about an hours worth of footage which I need to study, absorb and ponder over how to whittle it down into decent short film. I was …
Apr
06
Faster than Bertolucci
We wrapped the shoot at four yesterday afternoon, and then spent a manic few hours getting the lights back to Canterbury and my mum’s house back into some kind of sensible state. I’d woken in the morning quite glum, being that it was the last day of filming, but by the end of the day, …
Apr
04
Shooting Update
The shooting is going exceptionally well. I’ve spent this evening trawling through the footage looking for blips and bloopers and missing bits that we might need to reshoot tomorrow, and have found hardly any. We’ve shot about 90% of it now, so I’m hopefuly we should be wrapped by tomorrow lunchtime, or thereabouts, which is …
Apr
02
The Calm Before…
So all is set. Camera, tripod, lights, cremation urn, everything. The only thing I’ve forgotten to sort out, as far as I can tell, is biscuits to go with the tea. After a frenetic ride round Folkestone to pick up the urn, I met up with Denis the DP at the location this evening and …