My Perfect Short

Hello Bloggers

Not much  has been going on filmwise for me for the past week as I have been enjoying my first week at my new job and earning some moolah to fund future films. However I did manage to pick up the 10th anniversary edition of Kevin Smith's Clerks, I've seen the film before but couldnt turn down the £6 price. What interested me more than the film, which is excellent, was the making of/behind the scene/look back feature "The Snowball Effect" on the third disc. This showed how Kevin Smith managed to make a hit film on a budget of under $30,000 and how the film became this massive indie cult flick and it was interesting to see how the managed to pull it off, at one stage editing in a video rental shop.

Having watched the documentary I set about looking for grants and bursaries for my future collab with Adam Georgiou and we have decided that we are going to apply for a grant from Screen West Midlands as we want to make the film as good as possible and this would be a massive financial help.  We have arranged a meet up to discuss some intial ideas and work out a basic script in the next few weeks so it seem the ball has begun to roll and I am pretty much the most excited I've ever been about making a film. I really want to plan this out so it can be my perfect short! Anyway I've got to go binge on some Battlesstar Galatica before I hit the hay as I have more work tomorrow :P

Peace!

P.S. I have only managed to slice my thumb off once but its been an enjoyable first week.

My Prayer's Are Answered

Hello Blogworld

Good news I have begun work on a project for 2011, in the form of a treatment and a very rough script!
Scriptwriting is not something which I find easy...sure I have the ideas in my head but putting them down in words can often be very frustrating and difficult for me. Most of my script writing occurs in the very small hours of the morning when I dont have anything to distract me and every sane human being has decided to hit the hay.

Anyway I'll get back on track the script I have been developing has been an idea and genre I have wanted to tackle since I was about 14. An apocalypse movie :D here is a rough overview of it from my treatment,

"The world is a different place to what it once was, the streets which once bustled with activity and life are now empty and silent. Buildings with no one to maintain them have become dilapidated and resemble crypts more than the places of work and homes they once were. When night falls the world does not remain silent, the former populace retake the streets but they are not what they were. In the middle of all of this just surviving is Summer, a 18 year old girl, who has lost her entire world. We will see Summer going about her daily routine and her discovery of another “normal” person."

I aim for the film to be between 10-15 minutes and want to keep it short and sweet. ofcourse It's going to be low budget so I'm taking a leaf out of Danny Boyle's book and like he did at the start of "28 Days Later" showing very little of the monsters and using ambience and striking visuals to create mood. One location I have in mind is the old Spode pottery factory as it has almost everything I want and is falling apart...but in a good way.  I wont give everything away here but I'll be dropping more hints in the coming months.

In other news I have found myself some employment! This summer hasnt been a easy one. Since starting university I have been sliding ever more into debt and being on an expensive course like BA Media Production has not helped but I'm hoping this is a sign things are improving. I will be working in a small cafe in a nearby market town earning an income and hopefully gaining some life experience I can turn into more scripts. Hopefully its bye bye debts and hello good times :D

I'll update on how its going in a few days bloggers!

Peace!!!