Bedroom with Pirates of the Carribean blue wall Mini garden There is progress. All the paint work is done, wowee! Except the stripes in my living room, but that’s not a lot of work and will be done next week. I have assembled 4 closets. There are two more Billy’s to assemble, that should be [...]

The annual this-is-not-an-XMAS card postcard exchange I admit that I am a little late this year but it is that time of the year again: The annual this-is-not-an-XMAS card postcard exchange I will design a brand new Girl postcard which I am going to have printed in a card shop in a special very limited [...]

Notecards and envelopes I have distracted my brain a bit and designed four small notecards and envelopes to go with it. (See the not so great photo above, they look better in real life!) I kept the design simple (I like simple designs) and am quite happy with the result. If you like them, you [...]

After my Adobe Premiere course last week I really needed to go and use it for something. I have long been wanting to experiment with time-lapse photography, so I took a couple of test shots around Trafalgar Square and glued them together into a time-lapse sequence. Just a couple of notes: 1. It feels good [...]

I should be packing by now, but a short note here before I am off. All is prepared for my trip to Wales, well all that I could think of that should be prepared. There are a couple of changes to the original plans: The school children will not be there. The school has withdrawn [...]

Red and White I am very busy planning the 4 days film shoot in Wales in February. I have never really done serious production planning before, and this is a great opportunity for me to get experience. Planning this shoot is not very different from planning a four day film shoot for my own short [...]

POPB Life has its funny ways.

It’s supposed to be hard This is not going to be my favourite post ever, on the contrary I would imagine. But while things were really taking shape with SweetArts (my short film) I got an email on Saturday morning from my producer telling me that she was starting another job this Monday. Not the [...]

I had a near Oopsy-Daisy moment yesterday. Remember Notting Hill (yes the film)? The scene where Anna and Will are entering the communal garden where they have to climb over that fence to get in?

Chewinggum actually Yes it has been a bit quiet and I also sometimes wonder myself if this film ever gets made but things have started rolling again now. I had a production meeting yesterday and while we still haven’t found a Dan yet we are now also working on confirming locations. We also know that [...]

Just in case you thought I am going through this whole make-a-film-process with 2 fingers in my nose having nothing to worry about – it is not like that. It’s tough, it’s difficult, it’s hard work and some days I want to give up. Today is one of those days. Did I write that my [...]

The Script No they are not really pink! But they have been read out aloud by two actors. It went well. Apart from some minor changes and a change to the opening scene, the script is ready for the shoot. A script supervisor and a potential (not confirmed yet – but award winning!) DOP attended [...]

After 4 hours in the Electric House I got send off with some home work and now I have the rest of the weekend off. Nice. The home work consists of compiling a list of festivals I am going to submit the film to. At this moment Cannes and the UK Raindance festival are the [...]

The return of the pink pen … If you can’t stand reading about my short film you are going to have a tough time, it will probably be the most written about subject here, mostly because I want to document for my self how this all came about. If I don’t write it down now, [...]

Where have you been? Yes, sorry Daniel. It has been quiet here for a while. This is mostly to blame on my writer’s block which I think is caused by me waiting for the results of my bearaBill operation. I haven’t heard anything yet, which is a good thing. But the waiting kind of drains [...]

Art school In between everything, I have actually written 5 pages of brand new (feature length) script. There is no chance that I will finish this script anytime soon, but the beginning is there. My mind is thinking about the story a lot, there are a couple of options and I am trying to figure [...]

Sweetarts Auditions A somewhat hectic weekend, with again, ups and downs. Here are some notes on the casting and audition process:

Auditions SweetArts

I have long struggled taking this decision. I was jumping between the following two options: No! No! No! Don’t be bloody ridiculous. Are you insane? Don’t do it. He will think you are stupid. It’s just not done. You can’t do things like that. Do-no-do-it. No! Don’t!! You will be doomed forever and he will [...]

Yes Viktor, I feel a bit like that too There are a couple of reasons for this: I can’t find a producer just yet. I don’t want to make this film without being properly prepared. And I simply need a producer who can help me with budgets, contracts, release forms, locations and things like that. [...]