The Girl Is Making A Film
One of my friends:
“So it has really started now, you are doing it”
Me: Well not really, I can still run away you know.
She: No you can’t, I have 15 extras who can’t wait to be in the “love is in the air in the park” scene. It is happening, you [...]

A true story.
At 3am in the morning:
Dan: “Ahem”
Me “Oh God no, not again, wait until tomorrow”
Dan: “Sorry but …”
Me “What is it this time, I need sleep!”
Dan “I was thinking that maybe I should wear a red tie in stead of a blue one.”

Location list

You turn on your iPod.
You choose: Shuffle songs.
You press play.
You have 492 songs on your iPod.
And the first song that starts playing is this one.
I love my iPod.
How can it not become a great day.
Well, …

I mentioned this before, the cashiers in both Sainsbury’s and M&S, actually, probably in all UK supermarkets, are a joy. And they often make me leave their supermarket with a big grin on my face.
Today the nice boy in the Sainsbury’s (in Victoria St, if you want to look him up) asked me how [...]

If you step inside you can see a first concept version of a possible film poster for my short film. Not that I actually am going to print film posters, but it might be usable for the DVD cover or something. I mostly just thought it was fun to make, and it can be a [...]

Single track road

Definitely, undeniably. And we all know who the one true master of voice is, but being in the sound studio yesterday confirmed one more time that hearing a good voice does make my ears jump. I also found out that it doesn’t really matter what a voice is saying, nor if it is [...]

Dinosaurs in London
I was out on another film shoot today in Purley. The weather was wonderful, blue sky, white clouds, lots of trains, orange vests, white helmets and good company. And no I am not tired of them yet. It was a short shoot, nothing special, but it was a first shoot on my own. [...]

It all started with a train trip on (recent) memory lane. I stepped into my Caterham train this morning, passing Thornton Heath and East Croydon (winking at my old office) and stepping out in Purley. It was nice.

Train spotting in Longsight

Manchester is a great place to be. If you love rain. Which of course I’ve always said I did. It does get a bit annoying though when you have to stand out in the rain for a couple of hours.
Just to let you know how exiting it is to be involved [...]

No hats no boots

Well I got the hat and the boots, so bring it on.
Writing yesterdays post didn’t take me a lot of time. When there is (Pirate in this case) passion involved, words come easily and posts get long. Most of the time, when I read it back the next day, I feel I [...]

It’s not a big Thing for you. But it is the Thing for me.
So just to lower your expectations:
I am not getting married
I am not pregnant
I am not leaving the country
I am not moving
And it has nothing whatsoever to do with him
Sorry to disappoint you.
The Thing is …

Train

There was the guy with the sunglasses chewing gum, and a matchstick casually balancing on his lower lip waiting to fall off, but it didn’t. There was the Harry Potter boy lost in his book, and there was the man reading “Mathematical Foundations” a book as big as a bible, and not the most sexy [...]

Watching people doing audition for a role was another new film making related experience. One of my fellow wannabe filmmakers is going to shoot a short, and he was kind enough to have me around to watch the process.
The setup was a short piece of a script where 2 people, one a nurse, and the [...]

I just want your extra time, and your … kiss
But there are always the worries.
Worry number 1: I am too old to start all this.

To follow up on the friday post:
I didn’t go to the Pinewood Studios because it was a “ball”. Like in the guys wearing a tuxedo, and the girls wearing something I am never ever going to wear. Well, I can only think of one occasion, but that has an improbabillity factor of 100%. And no [...]

and loss of internet connection at home for a few days, no milk today.
But I will return on Monday, with:

a story about how it has been, working as a runner on a film set the whole weekend (and why starting at 8am on my free Saturday morning is supposed to be fun, and if I [...]

Not being on the film course anymore has the risk of falling into a film making gap. But I am trying hard to stay out of it. The runner job in September is one thing, and yesterday I was at a kick off meeting for a short film project I am going to help on [...]

Don’t worry it’s not about Davy, even though he likes to think it is. And to be honest, it’s only about 1 soul, not 99. Confused ? Well, hopefully, things will clear up tomorrow or Wednesday.
But our last film making day went with editing the pieces of film we shot 2 weeks ago. In the [...]

(For the quizzers : What film is this from?)
What do you want to do after this course - is a question that pops up regularly at the networking evenings in the Actors Centre in Covent Garden.
I still don’t really know the answer to this question to be honest. And the last time someone asked me [...]

Looks real eh ? I would have loved to have had the clapper with my name on it here, but I was messing about with the camera at that time and had no time making pictures, so you have to do with this one.
There is only one thing really wrong with this film making course [...]