I still get exhausted by the mechanics of our industry, a broken antique pocket watch set beside the massive atomic clock of LA. So our first stop isn’t going to be the In And Out Burger, our first stop is going to be Alan Denman’s strategy-packed London seminar with the reassuringly blunt title Breaking Into Hollywood.
So anyway… a couple of weeks back the main topic of conversation on Shooting People was about online distribution. Whilst the discussion around the role the internet can play in a film’s distribution strategy has been rather overtaken by the hubbub surrounding the impending demise of the Film Council, the one thing that last week’s shock announcement makes clear is that more than ever the future of your film is in your hands. Whether they want to or not Independent…
This is just a fact about the script we’re writing. I needed to share it with you all. So it’s a fact. There will not be a bee float in this film. Thank you.
Ever since we made our short film “Hallo Panda” we have been inundated with panda stuff. Friends, family, cast, crew, people who’ve seen it once, everyone on God’s great earth suddenly felt they’d been given the green light to fill my life with bear related belongings. So it is with some reticence that I post this little film I found on youtube, for fear that it starts all over again. However, I have to say, this is just the loveliest…
I’ve been meaning to let both my regular readers know how it went on Monday night at BAFTA but it went well so I’ve spent the past days nursing a hangover whilst trying to sort out a proposal for iFeatures. So basically I’ve been just like every other aspiring filmmaker in the UK… (Is there anyone out there not currently researching the history and street layout of Bristol? Show of hands please…) Anyway, on Monday night excerpts of our feature…
Hallo Panda Trailer from Blaine Brothers on Vimeo. Tonight’s your first chance to hear how Panda is shaping up as a feature script… please come.
As you will see if you scroll through the recent entries in this blog, outside influences have been pushing my thoughts towards the thorny issues of duration in story telling. Though inspired by conversations with other people, I’m probably especially aware of it because of the script that my brother and I are currently engaged with. As the keenest readers will know, we have been writing a feature length version of our award winning cinema extreme film “Hallo Panda”. When…
Oh my god, it’s a deadline. And Chris and me just hit it. Thwack. That’s twice now we’ve hit deadlines with the feature length script for “Hallo Panda”, which shows that either we’re getting a little bit better at knowing how long things take us (ages) or we just really know this story inside out… For those of you (me) who care about this it’s now down to 99 and a half pages and has taken us about twenty actual…
