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Crane
We have a crane. Every time I look at it, my mind plays a fragment of the They Might Be Giants song ‘They’ll Need A Crane’. If my mind doesn’t stop doing that soon, I might go nuts. The crane, as you’ll probably have guessed, usually has an obscenely expensive camera mounted on the end…
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Keys tomorrow
Tomorrow we get the keys to our filming units, which pretty much marks the end of pre-production and the beginning of production. I’ve been running numerous tests on our new kit over the last few days. We’ve got a load of new sound equipment that I didn’t want to end up using untested, the drawback…
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Casting complete
More or less. The last couple of major roles have finally been offered and accepted, after a final auditioning day on Tuesday. Props have also been getting sourced at a rapid rate of knots. My Ebay history used to look so tame and respectable, (early 90s indie CDs, mainly), but now it’s chock to the…
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Breather
Take a breath time. I always seem to end up writing pretty generic stuff in this blog, (auditions going well/I am tired/writing going well/I am tired, etc.), but don’t often scratch below that surface. Usually this is because I’m operating in something of a blind panic, and if I’m blogging I pretty much always feel…
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One more batch of auditions…
…and we’re done. Couldn’t drag it out any longer than that even if I wanted to; we’ve got costumes that need to be made, and to get made they need measurements, and to get measurements we need to know who’ll be wearing the costumes. So I need to quit stalling and make a couple more…
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Too much, too many, too few
Trying to gather together ‘To Do’ lists at this stage in post-production is borderline impossible. Too many things. The old line about how to eat an elephant, (“a little bit at a time”), has never felt more appropriate. Casting has been going fairly well. We’ve made a couple of decisions that we’re absolutely delighted with,…
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Preparing for launch
Been an incredibly busy week in the Hellbride/KillerKiller camp. Auditions, location recces, first soundtrack elements, budgeting, costume design decisions and even, (yes!), more rewrites. Our shooting schedules have been locked, (Hellbride is first out of the gate, and starts shooting on July 3rd, folks…), and we’re firing on all cylinders. These babies are going to…
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TMWLTGR
I find that I don’t go to the cinema quite as often as I used to. I think there are a million and one reasons for this, one of which is the ever-decreasing window between cinema release and DVD release. Anyway, I got into a discussion on a forum that I sometimes hang out on…
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Here comes the bride…
Here’s some more good news. HellBride is happening after all, and more or less on the original schedule. For a month or so there, the project got suspended. We’d had a few difficulties with the screenplay, and these had a knock-on effect meaning that HB was falling so far behind KillerKiller in the readiness stakes…
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It’s out there.
Ten years ago, I used to work in a branch of Blockbuster video in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. God knows how many countless thousand hours I must have spent in that store; lugging videos around, cleaning, filing, banking and advising customers not to rent films like ‘Tough & Deadly’. Oh, and trying not to laugh when they…
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