Went to see Chris Knowles at lunchtime today. He is very enthusiatic about filmmaking and I think he’ll do a great job at encouraging it the the area. He also seems to know a lot of very useful people, including one guy I met the day, Dave the Thief, as he was introduced to me, who lives nearby and is apparently a superb sound-recordist.
I’ve probably taken SToA too far for Chris to help now, but he has suggested a lot of avenues for getting the short seen in the local area, which is cool.
I also managed to do my first ever mini-pitch, well not so much a pitch, rather than a ramble about the Architurus effort. Chris and Dave the Thief seemed very interested in the concept, which is mainly all I talked about (hence why it wasn’t so much a pitch). The good thing was I felt very comfortable doing it. Dave even suggested it should be a TV series, which I’ve considered on more than one occasion, but shied away from as I just feel far more comfortable with the idea of it being self contained in two hours of film.
Chris was also talking about starting a Screenwriting workshop in Folkestone, so I might well go along to that.
I also got the extra shot of Vickie I wanted as well today, so I’m much happier about that. Now we just need the shots for the beginning of the film and then re-edit it and do all the sound and we might just be done by Christmas.
Next year.