Monthly Archive: July 2007

Jul
28

Random Stuff

I’ve been checking out the MyVisualPitch web site recently, which I must say is very cool, especially now it has the Unk seal of approval with the Pitch Your Niche competition. I was mulling over the best way to pitch my sci-fi script on there (as most of the pitches on there so far seem …

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Jul
26

Greetings is Complete!

After a final spurt of activity over the past few days, my work on Greetings is complete. It’s taken up nearly eight months of my life and at times it’s been nothing short of very hard work, but I’m really pleased with the final result. Yes, it could have benefitted from a few extra days …

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Jul
20

Ups and Downs

I thought I was doing well for a while there… I’d managed to complete the grading of Greetings using the fabulous new Color program, Denis the DP has come round and given it a thumbs up and I’d set the whole lot to render. It had taken about eight hours. I then went to the …

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Jul
11

Another Quickie…

The nice people at Free Geekery have put up a splendid list of freeware software for filmmakers. I wish I’d known about some of this stuff when I was starting out…

Jul
10

A Quickie…

If you ever get stuck or bogged down and don’t know how to proceed (say around the end of the second act…), read back over what you’ve already written, you may have already given yourself the answer.

Jul
05

Two Acts Down

Things are getting tricky now. After sailing through the first eighty pages of The Trimes with barely a backward glance (more fool me!), I’m starting to draw everything together, and it ain’t easy. I’m up to page 90, which according to the Great Scheme of Things, should be about the end of the Second Act …

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