Jun
23
If you’re a documentary filmmaker and you fancy a quick shot at fame on Channel 4, there’s a new competition being launched next month with your name on it. To celebrate the release of Guy Maddin‘s My Winnipeg, Channel 4 are looking for UK filmmakers to make a three minute documentary about your home town. …
Jun
22
Tom tagged me on the seven-songs-that-have-shaped-my-world-recently meme… 1) Radiohead – All I Need: I cannot stop listening to this song. When I hear the opening refrain I get this big deep satisfied smile on my face. I have no idea why. I just gets me… 2) Mozart – String Quartet No 1 in G: The …
Jun
21
Had a minor heart attack last night while procrastinating researching for the new screenplay. Seems there’s another moon film coming out next year, directed by Duncan Jones and called, wait for it, Moon! With heart sinking rapidly I flew past the ‘possible spoiler’ warning on IMDb to learn that, thankfully, it’s nothing like my story. …
Jun
20
Inspired by the conversation started by Documentally which spread across the Internet over the past few days on being creative (which spanned Phreadz, Seesmic , Qik and Skitch) I thought I’d follow in the footsteps of the Dragon and have a crack at the Waterstones ‘What’s Your Story’ competition before it closed yesterday evening. The …
Jun
20
Woke up this morning to find overnight there had been a fascinating contretemps brewing between two very cool web sites, both of which I’m a big fan of*. In the blue corner, replete with Raccoon, is Seesmic, run by the ever smiling French New Media Guru and founder of Le Web, Loic Le Meur. In …
Jun
18
Image via Wikipedia The new sci-fi moonbase film is now plotted out to my satisfaction (thanks to some useful feedback from Tom, who stopped me taking in a direction that it probably really didn’t want to go). So now the writing begins. I’m aiming at 90 pages, mainly to keep the story tight and the …