Just thought I’d give a brief update on what I’ve been doing. Mostly, I’ve entrenched in Real Life(tm) and other associated problems. Deadlines looming, people on holidays, losing access to a reasonable work area… lots of fun things like that. But, despite an enormous number of things going wrong with a number of shoots we [...]
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
So, as a Thursday just rolled over, episode 3 has been released. It’s great to get such interesting feedback from people, and it’s also a great feeling to know that we’re now done shooting & editing the remaining episodes – and that for the next four weeks, a new episode will be up every Thursday. [...]
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It’s funny – when we set out to make a feature film, memories of the astounding amount of effort and time that went into Dead Man Drinking kept flooding back into my head. So when the feeling was just ‘wrong’ and we decided to try something different, I felt a huge weight off my chest. [...]
So, having my head stuck so far down Final Cut Pro that I can’t see much more than sequences, timelines and filters at the moment got me thinking a great deal about what I’m doing. Not in the ‘drinking coffee, editing’ sense, mind you – in terms of just what I’m trying to achieve with [...]
So, it’s finally happened. Almost 14 months since the first draft of the screenplay was finished and passed to my patient girlfriend to read, Dead Man Drinking is available for download. For the moment, it’s available solely from archive.org – get it now – it’s free! Tell your friends! Hell, have a Dead Man Drinking [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Having moved house to somewhere with a slightly better view of the city that I reckon kicks so much arse… … I sat down to pen the script for my next film. Now, my method of writing tends to go something like this: spend four odd months pondering characters, carrying a notebook with me [...]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
The phrase “Blog” will never cease being funny to the part of me that’ll never stop being 12. Anyway, it’s been a while since my last post, for various reasons including people going around dying all over the place. Which is, y’know, pants. We did finish the shoot I was ranting about the sound on, [...]
Thursday, August 28, 2008
So, our shooting escapades went well on Sunday as it turned out. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Yesterday, my new Mac arrived. For the first time in the history of Macs-I’ve-Owned, this one is of the desktop variety. In other words, the hard drive doesn’t drag the overall speed of the rest of the [...]
If you’re a director, DP, producer, soundie or any other person of ‘importance’ on an indie film set, do not talk about previous productions while working. Nothing slows things down like a segway into the shoots of yesterfilmcanister. If you have the choice to eat before moving to your next location, or eat at your [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
So, it’s time to critically assault the short film we did last month. Firstly, if you haven’t seen it already, you should probably watch it so you have some clue what I’m ranting about. Don’t worry if you don’t like it – that’s not the point of this exercise. The point of the exercise was [...]