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
If That Had Been The Title
Then I think I would have really enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes film, though I suspect the man on the street will think it’s fantastic, as only Guy Richie can do fight scenes quite like that. The most suprising thing for me is that I expected RDJ to be the better of the two main actors, when in actuality JL fitted the part better, if only Just. Not time wasted, more time that could have been better spent. What does me is that you can make such an average film [T.V. film in my view], which will make £200 + million! Surly this gives us a better lye of the land.
My Head
Is back in the place that it needs to be right now, I’ve battled with a touch of deprsion most of my adult life, and fall quickly into it from the slightest trigger. I’m lucky that the people around me understand this and can spot it, my brother in particular is very good at realising and getting me out of the house and into a situation that makes me get out of it. I had a touch the other day [hence the last post, which I dont remember writing], and he came over realising by my voice on the phone that I was in my bad place. All he did was force me to take my dog for a walk, and what a difference that makes. No I didn’t get any writing done that day as such, it did put me in a good place to clear 25 pages the next day. I only wish I could understand why I get like it. On the bright side, I now know when it’s happening and can help myself out od the deep dark hole that is depression. It’s not a nice place at all, bizarrely I feel little sympathy for most people that suffer, and baybe that is because they dont want to get out of the whole.
The Script
Is very nearly at the point of it’s first draft, ready to have life breathed into it by both Simon and Sim, it’s looking siprisingly good even if I do say so myself. I look and it and it feels like there is a journy and a structure, as that the bit that I do, I have to say I’m very, very pleased. For the moment anyway!
Laters,
Chalkster