Archive for October, 2007

The Strangest Village in Britain

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

This is funny, sad, touching, hopeful and true. It’s about the village of Botton in Yorkshire. I’ve only got so far as the two blokes in the print shop, who have a Goon Show-esque repartee, and if it weren’t time for bed I’d watch it all the way through.
Update: I finished watching. It was mostly [...]

Not Dead, Just Resting

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Wow, for about half an hour I thought I’d totally destroyed my blog. I just upgraded to a new version of Wordpress, and it wasn’t the easiest transition.

The Journey Starts

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

This week it’s starting to get serious. I’ve received some useful feedback on my script, I’ve cast an actor, and Courtney’s realising the scale of the project we’re about to embark on. My short movie with the working title “Julie, Julie” is officially in pre-production. In the next week or so I’ll be starting a [...]

More Shooting

Monday, October 1st, 2007

This weekend was another orgy of video shooting. First off, most of Friday was spent preparing to shoot, and then shooting a Critical Mass of zombies and pirates. More will become apparent when it’s edited.
Saturday and Sunday were spent on a levee in Sacramento shooting a barbaric pinata massacre for my friend Stephanie. I’m quite [...]