Mash-up time. If the Gonch complains, I’ll take it down…
Clickety on this for music
(Mixed in relatively rapid fashion by Tanuja Amarasuriya and yours truly for a DJ set at T’s brother’s wedding. Just dug it up whilst sorting through old angel tech demos…)
Meantime: all my dreams on VHS, wot I wrote / directed, soon to […]
Category Archives: Film
Sunshine: in bag
Thursday, June 10, 2010
VHS: diary four, the post-production
Saturday, August 1, 2009
So it seems that film production is a sandwich. A flavoursome all-action filling (the shoot) with two hefty slices of staring at computer screens slapped either side of it: the writing, and the cut. The mac-bashing bit goes double for yours truly on all my dreams on VHS, as I co-write the soundtrack with angel […]
VHS: diary three, the shoot
Saturday, August 1, 2009
All my dreams on VHS is eventually shot in two 12-hour working days, although most people get onto set earlier and leave considerably later. I’m still vacuuming our location’s living room floor at 10 am the day after we’ve wrapped, whilst the line producer washes up in the kitchen. The budget we’re working to means […]
SIFF: Seattle
Saturday, July 11, 2009
No photoshop trickery in the above picture. That’s a genuine Seattle sunset, making like a mile-wide CGI graphic across Puget Sound. You can tell the tourists in and around the city at a glance: they’re the ones craning their necks up at the sky with mouths wide open, whilst regular Seattle townfolk just stroll around, […]
NexT: Bucharest
Monday, April 13, 2009
So, we took all my dreams on VHS out to sunny Bucharest; a city that in terms of its vibe sits somewhere between the austere granite charms of the major eastern European capitals and the dusty bustle of a Mediterranean hub (stitch that, Lonely Planet! That’s proper travelogue writing, right there.)
We were in competition at […]
VHS: diary two, the pre-production
Sunday, April 12, 2009
(On-set photos by George Chan)
Between greenlighting in January and the shoot in July, the task of labeling 1, 200 VHS tapes forms a sort of constant background noise to the business proper of making a short film. Every now and then I retreat into it, conjuring up 50 or so titles as a ‘reward’ for […]
VHS: diary one, the script
Sunday, March 15, 2009
With the first European screening of all my dreams on VHS due in Romania this April, I thought I’d jot down a quick diary of its production for anyone remotely interested.
Come with me now to the heady, giddy days of November 2006, when you could still buy a pint for less than a limb, and […]
Encounters: lists
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Above: an image from Auf Der Strecke (On The Line), director Reto Caffi, and undoubtedly the best film I saw at this year’s Encounters short film festival. A testament to the magic that can happen when excellent performances are shot impeccably in the service of an engaging story, and nothing else gets in the […]
VHS: bloody hell
Sunday, August 31, 2008
The precariously stacked cassettes pictured above are part of All My Dreams on VHS, a short film I’m writing / directing at the moment. I’m hoping it will clock in at something like 10 minutes long. And I say ‘hoping’ because at the moment we’re editing, and about to record and compose the score (yup, […]
Time Out: interview
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Questions, questions, questions.
So here’s my emailinterview (einterview?) with Time Out, all about DVD addiction (Deevadeection?)
PDF of the actual item here: Time Out DVD interview
And below, the full unexpurgated version of the original Q&A, unedited due to reasons of space.
How many DVDs have you got? And how do you organise them?
This question is blatantly an aide […]