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So with roughly two months left in 2005, it's time to take stock.
What's everyone up to presently?
And is anyone gonna make it big(ger) in 06?
I wonder how many people have wandered through this forum at some point in time and ended up getting a "real" job?
Kudos to those of you still standing I say.
Well from November the 7th Im taking on a full size workshop as the armoury and model making side of my business is really taking off (anyone need a miniature lenin?). Very scarey as its all the cash i have in the whole world going into it, heck im even paying people.
Mortus illumina, is so near to completion you can smell it , it smells very nice like a fine italian merlot.
As far as I can recall Mortus was on the go when I first joined exposure all those years ago...hope you have an extensive making of for the dvd. Didn't you sell the overseas rights ages ago?
Offer still on the table, wating for completion to hopefully get more offers.
I wrapped production on my short film 'Green Saints', and it's now had all the foley and ADR completed and mixed. It's now at a sound studio getting mastered for 5.1. (It's so much work just to get a dolby logo on your film, i had no idea).
I'm also in pre-production for my next short film 'Fish Tank'. Which i'm hoping will get me into the final 16 for Tropfest. That festival allows the 16 finalists to submit a feature film script for $1m to produce it.
So i'm hoping '06 will be a big year for me.
3 shoots completed in the last month and 1 to go on my short film - It is day. Hoping to have it edited and scored by March for a run at the festivals next year...
What are you up to Generic? I like your little showreel/preview thingy.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 28, 2005 05:32 AM: Message edited by: Justin M. ]</font>
Shot the final scene for Circus Of The Damned last Sunday, which went better than I could imagine. Loads of really enthusiastic Extras and campy props.
Still have a couple of pickups to do, and a little bit of animation to complete one scene, but thats all - and it neednt involve too much organising.
Have to organise the Hard Drive on my MAC to edit the sucker, (This is a total cottage industry) and then its going to be getting up an hour early every day and ploughing through it until its done. (I already have a 'real' (ish) job.)
Expecting Twins early next year (2006 will be a BIG YEAR, but not as far as filmmaking is concerned) so unless I get cracking then it might not surface for yet another year (or so) :-o
Plan is to get it finished before Mortus Illumina ;-)
Got another showing of C.O.T.D. Part 1 this weekend at a film society ( http://www.reelpeople.org.uk/ ) Halloween night , warm up act for Shaun of the Dead :-)
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 28, 2005 04:58 AM: Message edited by: eddie123456789 ]</font>
'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.
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.
This year has been fairly slow when it comes to any progress I've made. Though the birth of bigphat films has been warmly receieved - we still haven't gotten onto our first "major" project yet. We've been concentrating on - but only in pieces, Skanked Up - which is really just a little "test" feature-film for me and all my friends. The teaser trailer is now available but the final product is still many months from completion. We've had to shoot at weekends and odd days though because *gasp* cast & crew are friends, not professionals, nor people I would even say have that much commitment (but of course SOME do!) - so its quite hard to organise & keep everyone working on set. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
2006 will be better and although I've gone back to college [for the purpose of excelling, getting a distinction at BTEC level & then setting up a wed-vid co to fund future features] I will still have holidays to film a couple of projects we have lined up. Whole Wired World, a feature length ukbuster & Wiseman (working title!) - a fantasy film set in the "Shire" (that'll be Oxford-shire [img]tongue.gif[/img] ). So I'll keep you posted if any of these go ahead. I have a long term goal planned, & I have all the movies planned that I think will lead me to that goal. I hope, in 2006 - providing al q'aeda don't wipe us out, or worse still, make filming laws in the UK impossible - you should see two features from me [img]smile.gif[/img]
Nice topic Skinhead! Though sadly, I'm no closer to a related job. I went to a live TV show "Loose Women" (LOL) the other day and then the iMax cinema with college. That was a laugh [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 28, 2005 07:35 AM: Message edited by: m0d ]</font>
Bartering for a global financial news channel contract at our Chinese headquarters. Peddling it already to some customers.
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Working also on establishing a connection with bullseye.tv to get some of our rubbish screened.