Friday, September 22, 2006


this is my engagement ring. I'm getting married in may but we havent organised anything yet.

erm.. im not sure this is what i should be putting up on my film blog but Im really enjoying taking random pictures tonite and uploading them. blogging is very therepeutic. i used to worry if i was boring people now i dont care. i mean if you are bored you can just go onto another page. nite nite


This is my BAFTA. it's cool. I won it for 'shadowscan' a short film check it out on utube. the budget of shadowscan was 10 times the budget of my feature film honey and razorblades.
I would like to win another one because people pay attention to you for a bit and give you money to write scripts. Then they say they can't ' commit to' (their words)making the filmbut at least that way I have money and then I can go off and make films that are cheap and me and my friends can commit to.
I would like some money and also would like some attention because it feels nice.
better than that by a long way is making films that show the world more as it really happens rather than how guys in an office in soho think it happens. also I think audiences want things that are new and different but properly new and differnt and unexpected; whereas film execs always want it as new as the last new thing that did well at the box office... I wanna make films for people who want to see new shit they've never seen before but also shows life in a way they recognise but hasnt been seen before.

take the beach... what the fuck was that to do with backpacking? it didnt seem real to me at all- am I the only one who thinks that?

also that's why we've made our sex scenes seem really real as well... I'd be interested to see what people think but I don't want to put up the sex scenes on u-tube because that might be embarassing for the actors to have sex scenes out ther out of context. maybe I should ask them...


PEC are shit
this is a picture of me expressing rage over my senheiser mic which I bought from PEC and only worked for less than 12hours. it went down on the first day of filming and its still not fixed.
it went back to senheiser and still not working. PEC the company I bought it for are incredibly patronising in that 'oh your just a bunch of girlies you don't know what your doing' kind of way. they never returned our calls and suggested that my XLR's were just too cheap (they supplied them as part of the bundle so I guess they should know)
do male lo-budget filmmakers get that kind of brush off? I mean you take out a loan and a few hundred quid and three months later your having to hire your mates dictaphone to acquire sound... does it make sense?? but hey I guess the old boys need to get their bacon sarnie money from soemwhere..
god this is really ill-mannered and ranty but I'm just really fucked off...and much the poorer from having dealt with these guys... their shit mic is gonna cost us loads in ADR on the feature..I'd sue them but a) I can't be arsed b) I don't know how and c) I'd probably lose and everyone at PEC will laugh at me more than they do alredy... hmm
I feel much better now.
Richmond film services are lovely on the other hand and I will only get gear off them in the future... well unitll they think I'm stupid and tell me my XLR's are to cheap.
I think that blowing off steam helped..

Thursday, September 14, 2006

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