Etain McGuckian arrived in Birmingham last night to assist us over the next few days. We have made a point of keeping the crew very small, but are simultaneously aware that we’ll need support. Etain is great at being versatile and worked with me on “Watching & Waiting” as my […]
Monthly archives: January 2009
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Picking locations is easy. Getting permission to use them isn’t. I have learnt the following when trying to secure locations: 1) Going to see someone in person is better than using email or phone. I once had to convince a priest that I was a good Catholic boy before he […]
I believe that John and myself are benefitting from the liberty of filmmaking with less rigmarole upon this project. We both spent 2008 upon projects that required a lot more logistical organisation and to some extent, unnecessary procedure. Procedure is a fascinating piece of terminology. It suggests an obvious course […]
Much the same as the clutter you collect as you get older, I seem to of collated tonnes of hard drives of stuff. My concern with the shift to HD is that this takes up so much more space than SD, and I’m going to need more storage. Granted, the […]
One of the elements that John and I discussed at great length is the look of the locations. We didn’t want the film to be area specific. Indeed we wanted to confuse people to where the film is located as opposed to recreate anywhere else. Casting Eeva (who is Finnish), […]
Booking the kit today means that we are all go for the weekend of 31st January. This is where I think a bulk of the filming that involves Raul will be done. He has a month break in February, and I will be off the Berlin for the Berlinale on […]
A break from the blog whilst the festivities took over. Not much has developed other than some experimenting with the Abaltat software. I generated a rough cut of the opening sequence, which will ultimately be longer, but just to see how the sound responded to colours onscreen, including the credits. […]