James: You can picture it: my stepmum and I are taking boxes out of my flat around Gabby’s ears. She is re-cutting the movie and I’m taking the coasters out from under her tea. It is frantic. The following night we show it to Toby Mountain, one of our sound […]
Monthly archives: August 2005
James: I remember that the experience really wasn’t as overwhelming as I’d expected. It was 80+ minutes of our first feature film and all I could think of was my bed. There were no high fives or champagne corks. I think we had a cup of tea and a couple […]
James: We come so close to finishing the first edit, but stop short of a few fiddly bits in the early hours of the morning. Gab heads home and we leave it saving. I have a quick bath and then noticed it has all disappeared! I’m in shock. The auto-save […]
James: In order to drop my sister of with my mother, I’ve travelled down to London on the last train on Friday night and travelled up on the first one Saturday morning. This mad dash is completely pointless as Gab doesn’t turn up at my flat until 1630, all teary […]
James: I can’t remember if this is when we started in earnest or just whether I started to think it was of any significance. We basically broke the script down into ten sections of roughly the same length and then went about editing those segments. It made it feel a […]
Monday 8th August – Friday 12th August James: As a thank you present to the school pupils in the film Gabby and I invite them to the University to make their own projects. In the week-long busy atmosphere of filmmaking we become inspired to forge ahead with editing Peppermint. It […]
James: We meet a talented young guy who will be able to help us with the web development. This is crucial as it will eventually act as a portal to everything when we are finally done. We want people to contact us through it, download press kits etc. Long story […]