Thoughts for the day

If your lucky it’s fairly well mapped out

You get a little set of instructions passed down to you and if your lucky you like the taste of the contents.

Then again

Perhaps it’s not at all like a box of anything and then you have to make it up as you go along. I’m rather enjoying life at the moment, I love being a hard working creative. I must try not to over help people on the way as it looks like you may push them above you and get no credit.

Stop Rambling

Okay, so I really feel that we are just about to hit the making real films arena. I’m off as a second camera assistant for the best part of September, along with driving a big transit. It was this Tuesday when I was meeting the rest of the camera crew, that I really good idea came about. Basically my folks have a place in France and Andy the Producer, simply said to me, is it worth writing a film that you can shoot there?

It’s been staring me in the Fucking Face for Fucking Ages

Of course it is. It is an ideal way to make the film. Yes we had thought about filming Chop there, but could not do it for under a grand and get everybody there. However, if you are looking at filming for 3-6 weeks, it starts to become very cost effective. Very, very cost effective. With that in mind i did what I always do, I got drunk.

The Funeral

So I get home at 5am, I suspect there was some sleeping at the bus stop involved. Barrie then woke me up and reminded me to get a dark suit on as we had to go to the funeral of my great Aunt who had died at the young age of 96. Now, for some that lack of sleep and horrible hang over would be an awful thing, and I can promise you I for one did not enjoy it for one moment at all.

Theres the Rub

I was in a semi sub conscious state, and was slipping in and out of my reality/reality; somewhere betwixt being in the car and in my dreams, watching as the scenery passed me by. A sense of the unreal was about me, and my imagination stated to play with me… I came up with a totally new film idea. One that would fit into our later port folio, one that we could shoot almost entirely on the farm. One that would be low budget…

And

One that Barrie agrees with, one that has got him excited. One that has legs [four of them]. A horror, a suspense fulled horror. A film that will be as exciting to make as it will be to watch. One that could project us further then we suspected a first film could. One where we take advantage of modern technology, yet use it cleverly. I can sip into my Hitchcock back catalog, use my film noir lighting, Tarrantino clever dialog… It’s good folks. It’s better then I could have imagined. And you know I think that we will most likely make it too.

One More Rub then

All my life I’ve avoided Horror films, simply because of shitting myself at the age of 12ish, when NC made me watch “An American Werewolf in London“. Now I’m about to pay homage to a film that had possibly more effect on me than any other. I’ve just ordered a copy and will be watching it this weekend or next. Of all the things that I never ever expected I would do. Now I’m having to force my way through horror films on a regular basis.

Who would ever have believed it?

Laters,

Chalkster

And Only Sometimes

I really miss having a girlfriend, at the moment it a better life without one, I have no money to spend on one, and I’m taking huge risks all the time.  When things settle then perhaps it will be time again.  I’m sat on the sofa with Bella watching an old Burt Renalds movie, and as much as I love my dog, I cant help but think that something is missing.  Perhaps it’s just Money, and tha’s why I feela little alone at the moment, if I had money I’d most likely be down the pub and not worrying.  Not that I’m worried, I’m just a little bit blue, because I’d like to be snuggled up to somebody right now.

Ah well, least I have my Bella.  Life could be much, much worse.

Laters,

Chalkster

Funny Feeling

Its weird how time passes, for a little while on Saturday I would have loved to have just been able to freeze time for a moment, just a minute or two.  A time to reflect before moving on.  It seams that we have done so much to get where we are at the moment, which is only the very begging of our journey… But time stops for nobody and we have to keep pushing forward.

So what Happens now?

We just need to tweak the edit a little, but then we are ready to take Chop to the festivals.   In the meantime I need to keep moving forwar, I’m working as a camera assitent on a feature in September, and am looking to get more jobs with more experiance.  We also have another 2 short films to make, and we need to start planning our first feature.  This is something that I will be able to do once I get back from shooting the feature in September.

Feedback

There where two people who’s feedback was really important to me  both I’m pleased to say attended.  And the feedback was so much better off them then I expected.  I new that we needed to sort out the colour, and tidy the sound up.  But I also got some really amaising advice that could make the difference, things that never struck me before.

Never Struck you Before

The suprise for me was that there was tension in the film, and that in places it was scary.  I didn’t think it was scary when we were filming it, and was taken completely by that reaction. So I look back over it with that in mind, and I will change things. It’s a whole new lesson, and a simple one, one that takes lateral thinking.  So I shall move forward.  I am truly excited about the weeks, months and years to come.  I’ve a feeling that we will be making films.

It’s a new dawn

I’m Excited by life at the moment :)

ChalkSter