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Nothing exciting right now this Summer was pretty busy but now as the cold months start taking hold things will slow down. I am supposed to shoot a script in the next week or three but who the hell knows if the guy will ever get his ass in gear.
Good Luck
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 31, 2005 08:44 PM: Message edited by: Nigel ]</font>
Still working away editing on an evening and filming some weekends, mostly wedding videos. I don't like doing them but it earns some cash. Also work on some corporate videos and training video sometimes which is generally pretty good.
Planning some documentary projects for next year, hopefully being able to sell them to TV. Also got some special interest videos/DVDs in mind for next year. Plus I hope to finally get my first short film filmed this winter.
2005 was a fun year for us, and we're really looking forward to next year. Back in August, we had a short and a feature shown at a local (very local) film fest, and we were reccently contacted about having two of our features aired at a sci-fi convention in California bay area some time in the spring 2006. There's no money associated with the festival or the convention, but putting a movie out there in front of an audience is the important part, right?
Also, we're ramping up to shoot another short in 2 weeks. Assuming that we get all the photography done by the end of November, I was hoping to have post wrapped early next year, however I've recently been contracted to do two music videos for local bands and to author a soundtrack for a feature-length horror movie. Between all that, and balancing a full-time job, life just became very interesting.
Well it's good to see so many people still around...
Thanks for saying you liked the preview Justin. I was asked to upload my stuff to Lulu.com by the Independent Film Source in LA...I told them that no one buys shorts...but they kept emailing, so I relented.
What's the harm?
I graduated from Film School and went to a film festival with my short Ten. I've written a feature script which is no doubt at the very bottom of a mile high paper stack in various storerooms around the production houses of Dublin.
I am at present considering shooting a feature film in Portugal.
And writing more than at any time in my short history.
I pay the bills editing and doing script work for others.
2006 is a really, REALLY big year for me.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Still dreamingQuote:
Still pimping
Still creating
Still clandestine
Still cynical
Still branding
Still ... around!
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Got the kid, got the house, and still doing music. Currently for the game HazeQuote:
Originally posted by Christian Marcussen:
Music, music and music for games. I hope to be sneaking a few film and short projects in next year as well. Having a kid around new year. Buying a house around now (that is I'm looking for the right one).
Finished University couple of months back with a solid grade and am now on an 18 month contract with The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum to make a series of short films for them.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Finished the edit and showed a 138 min version to cast + crew etc. on 9/12/05, who all agreed it was to long, so spent the fist 1/3 of '06 removing another 9 minutes. Got some DVDs made (and still have just over half sitting in a box, actuall number sold and money actually changed hands, ~12). Apparently got shown at Portobello film festival, but they forgot to tell us, so we didn't go. Had an extract shown at festival of fantastic films in manchester, which didn't go very well for various technical reasons, including (but not exclusively) that our film was not as good technically as the other films being shown at the same time.Quote:
Originally posted by richard.fisher:
'Anamnesis' painfully close to completion. Have just recieved some music from a friend, and should be getting some more next week, then I have a week off from my real job in November to put the whole thing together before we show it on December 9th.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">2006 has been relatively quiet film wise. Girlfriend of nearly 8 years still hasn't left me. Have taken out a mortgage and will hopefully move into first own home in next month or so. Next project will be a music video for a friends band (It will be weird having a 4 minute time limit, and it might turn into a MJ Thriller type of thing, with a 15 minute intro and 20 minute outro).Quote:
2006 will have to be relatively quiet. I will probably just write, or my girlfriend of 7 years will probably leave me. She turns 30 next year, so there will probably be the whole mortgage/kids thing to do (to be honest, i'd be just as excited about the whole kids thing - less excited about the mortgage thing). Maybe I'll write a short I can shoot in 2007, although I'll probably get carried away and end up writing Dr. Zhivago in space.
p.s. Mike, have you seen 'Hardcore: A Poke Into The Adult Film Orifice'? Or even heard of it? It's a mockumentary about a director of adult movies (played by an actor I worked with on anamnesis) who decides to cross over to mainstream movies, but runs into difficulties with his producers. It stars Pano Masti as the main male adult entertainer. Sound familiar? A link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489071/
p.p.s. Christian, am I right in thinking you scored some of the music in the PS2 timesplitter series. I ordered TS2 and TS:Future Perfect off of eBay yesterday, were you involved in either of those?
My composer recently got a place on the Screen Yorkshire funding board, so I'm gonna see if he can get them to stump up some cash for my feature. I sincerely doubt they will, since it's a action comedy about a flatulent superhero, but it's worth a shot.
Other than listening to a shitload of Oingo Boingo, I haven't been up to much. Produced a semi-decent documentary earlier in the year, but I personally haven't directed anything since Killer Sandwich 2.
Hopefully, this will change next semester when I go back to uni.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hi Richard. Yes I was involved in TS:FP - did about 70% of the story mode music and all of the cinematics.Quote:
p.p.s. Christian, am I right in thinking you scored some of the music in the PS2 timesplitter series. I ordered TS2 and TS:Future Perfect off of eBay yesterday, were you involved in either of those?
@Untamed - cool. Indeed sounds like it's worth a shot. Who is your composer? Someone I know maybe?