Thoughts for the day

It’s On

So over the next week or two I’ll know that ‘No Balls’ is a go.  Its an exciting and frustrating time, as funds dry up I’m just about to hit the real deal, it will though be touch and go for me. One of the best feeling though is the sheer amount of people that believe in the project, that beleive in me.I spent yesterday with Sal, a special effects make up artist who is very, very talented.  She is designing the lady suit for the main actor to wear.  The most impressive thing for me is that she has chased me on the project and wants to get involved early on.  It’s fantastic.

It’s Off

It’s around this time that you learn who your friends really are, the ones that stand by you.  It’s a tough time, the stress is almost unbearable at times and I do try to keep myself calm, but it is not always wuite that simple.  As you will know I also had two crashes recently, and I beleived that all the things I wanted to achieve where about to be taken away form me on the verge.  I was withing moments of being killed, but was not.  The car fared well, I fared slightly less well. My back is awful and my ribs hurt.  I’m not trying to get sympathy right now I’m still going to the gym, just being more gentle.I’m still typing, though that make me ache.  But just because I’m arrying on does not mean it does not hurt and it was not scary.  I struggle to believe anybody would be able to think like that.

Keep on Moving

So I just have to work towards the film and hope that it all happens.  I think it will. you?

Laters,

Chalkster

Life Affirming

I’m not sure how often we really realise just how fragile our lives are. A couple of weeks ago I had two near death experiances in a car, and that has made me realise just how happy I am to be doing something that I love.

Filming

For The Last Seven  wrapped on Sunday, which felt awful if I’m honest.  It became a real family event, and I know that I will be working with those guys or most of, time and time again.

Laters,

Chalkster

Well Actaully I Have!

Yesterday I finished the very first Draft on ‘No Balls,  Scrum Like it Hot‘, Which is the first and on one the most vital parts of film making, I’ve put down how I see the film.  It now gets past over to both Simon and Simeon for a magic touch or two, or thousands in fact.  It’s a strange thing coming to the end of the story, it’s very much like finishing a good book that you can’t put down.  You read and read it, then it finishes all to suddenly and you find yourself in morning for the characters that you have got to know so well.  And guys this is it, there will not be a sequel to this film.  that’s it for these people that have been banging around in my head for the last two and a half years.  I’ve allowed them to come to the surface and engage with me, and now they are gone.  A memory, that I look back at.  I’ve grown these people like children, carved out there personalities and now I have to say goodbye.  Of course I will get to play with them again, on the re-writes and when we film, but I cant help but just feel a small sense of loss. I think I’ll miss Izzy the most, she was the one that really took over in my head.

It goes on

I would not want you to think that, that is it, or that I’m this great writer though, I’m not.  There is a necessity to getting it out of my head and in a place where the real talent get get into it.   By putting the story down in it’s most basic format I give the guys a template that I’m happy with for them to really go to town on. It’s about being able to have something that I’m happy with, it’s the story and the way that I think on the page now, which saves many, many re-writes and so, so much time.  It will be interesting to compare the two scripts in a couple of weeks and see just how magnificently they have changed.  I must admit though, last night I felt waves of emotion and was a little bit teary.

Today

I’ll have a little tidy up and make sense of some of the bits that are not quite right.  But by jove people it’s down on paper!

LATERS!  

Chalkster