I feel like I am a child who has rushed to dessert without finishing the main meal. I have begun filming a documentary about an 94 year old lady called Nin, who lives and works as a maid in Ireland, whilst Andy is still back in England finishing off the […]
Monthly archives: July 2009
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So a year after the 72 hour film experience, I returned to the Fleadh in Galway to see the festival. I work throughout the festival to get support for a 72 in Melbourne, but the economy is very bleak in Ireland and business is hard. Whilst at the Fleadh I […]
I have come to the Galway Film Fleadh to sort the pre-production on another project but Rosie hasn’t come with me. I have left the film with Andy Paton, as he feels he can tweak it further. I am actually happier to have it entirely in his possession, albeit means […]
Similar to my positive meeting with Carl, I had a great dinner with Gary Carter, where amongst a broad, fascinating conversation, we hit upon the notion of mastery, and whether we can truly master something. This has always been something that I don’t necessarily believe or feel compelled to achieve. […]
Today I met with Carl Schoenfeld, who I am going to take the liberty of calling an old friend now. We have been in contact since he kindly helped me with my Masters thesis in 2006. We’ve been in contact ever since. I tell him about Rosie, and he suggests […]
So with my rough edit done, I hand it over to Andy Paton, another colleague at Staffordshire University who specialises in editing. I figure he can cast a pretty critical eye over the project because he hasn’t been involved too closely on it. I ask him to cut 6 minutes […]
It is the early hours of Sunday morning and I have finally finished a rough edit. I am suffering from a bit of man flu (hopefully not swine flu!) and it has been a slow stagger to the finish! The film currently runs at 36 mins and 22 secs, which […]
I’m amazed how a clip that is one take can be in sync at the start but then be out at the end. Never mind, consider it radio…