Plays & Nuns & Scripts & Shorts

Strangely enough, a bunch of stuff has happened at exactly the same time. Odd how that happens..

Not content with my family/dad duties and getting NWG off the ground, and filming the Chocolate short I mentioned in my last post, I've also now been accepted as a director for Short & Sweet, which means I need to choose a play, cast & rehearse it ready for a week run at the Newtown Theatre 13-18th January 2008! I'd forgotten about that one....

OK I'm actually a little along the way already.

I've shot Chocolate - I cannot believe that after all my time filming here I could go out into the middle of a field for two days under the Australian sun and forget:

1. Sunscreen
2. A hat
3. A pen!

What a plonker... Though I did have all the above for the second day, I put sunscreen on everywhere except the back of my neck and it's taken the best part of a week to recover! That was one burnt bit of skin....

On the plus the short is pretty amusing, it's come together nicely. Rob Queree did an excellent job as Farmer Jim.

I've also already chosen the play I'm directing from the first 50 accepted scripts of Short & Sweet. It's called 'Lovely Bits' by Mark Andrew, and I've cast the key leads with the very talented Lisa Fineberg and the equally talented Matthew Thomson. First rehearsal this sunday!

The NWG first draft is also getting there slowly - I've set a target of the end of the year and I hope it will be done by then, but I did always factor in a few weeks delay from the Chocolate Short and didn't factor anything in for S&S!

I have put together 500 and 1000 word synopses over the last week which gives a good insight into the project and even better, my good friend Simon Ralph has some up with an excellent new logo for the project during these pre-production times. I've already used it to redesign the holding page while a proper website is built. Go check it out.

So things are looking good - hold on, I need to touch some wood now....

And there's more! (I have been a while between posts) - The first rough cut of Rock Chikz NBQ was shown to me last weekend! Of course there's a thousand things to change but it's great that Alison the editor has moved it forwards. Looking forward to a constructive session on sunday morning.

Laters. Oh yeah, I like to post a video each time, here's something amusing I found the other day!


That Explains It from Derek Doublin on Vimeo.

More news! Obama elected!!

Work is progressing well on the 'Nuns With Guns' First Draft Script. More news on that when we finish it. I've also been scouting locations for a Tropfest entry this year, a bit of a last-minute decision but the script was hanging around and really it's not that complicated a project, once I track down the ute, a herd of cows and a large bull! Planning to shoot at the end of the month, gotta be ready for the beginning of Jan.

Finally, I have at last sorted a trailer for the Rock Chikz episode. It's taking forever for the editor to get round to editing it so in the meantime I put this together over a couple of evenings last week. The cast and crew like it A LOT!

http://www.vimeo.com/2169903


Rock Chikz Episode 3 Teaser from LostSheep Productions on Vimeo.