Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Good project news! Wife on TV!

Have found out the MotorCycle Safety Project has been greenlighted! Off to Phillip Island next month to start shooting :-))

My wife was on TV this morning!

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

PHOBOS Shots

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Sunday, September 6, 2009

New computer new projects

Hello hello,

Well I've done it - I've bought a Mac! Not that I'm dumping the PC
just yet but it's being supplemented by a new editing machine. I've
basically spent $5k+ for one program - Final Cut Pro. Looking forward
to the learning curve!

Watched Inglourious Basterds the other day. Pants. Tarantino is having
fun and making money, but it was just too indulgent and 2D for me.
Wish I'd seen District 9...

Foolproof continues to be developed and I have 2 more shorts in the
works for the second half of this year, plus the Motorcycle Safety
Video series have been approved - now to get a press pass for the
MotoGP in Phillip Island this year.

The Food in Focus Pilot has been lodged with TVS so we'll see how that
goes.

Lovely Bits was accepted into the Sexy International Film Festival!
They also want a subtitled version to go into consideration for
screening in Paris.

My wife and daughter are beautiful and happy as ever. Photos to follow
this!

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Last Weekend

Got out on the bike!

Sunday, July 5, 2009

More updates and the like...

Hello Hello!

OK, we had our first readthrough of FoolProof yesterday which went very well. Clive Hopkins, our writer, also came along and a lot of good ideas generated. I think it's going to be a great film! We're shooting in February and there's a LOT to sort out, but we're all good!

As mentioned previously I've finished another short, though it still needs a bit more work before it's submitted to the post office competition. Still, I wanted to get it out there - hope you enjoy it, even if maybe you don't 'get' it!



I've bought some great lights and more camera gear - is there and end? Of course not.. though they did replace my brief flirtation with a MacBook Pro (purely so I could have FCP). I've been using a program called Vegas for quite a few years now and frankly it does everything I need for the moment. Inevitably the movie will be edited on FCP, and at that point I'll dive in and get one. But 'til then, it's all about the ideas and the prep..

On that subject, I sat in on a radio show on saturday called FoodInFocus on Eastside FM 89.7FM, broadcasting in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. I was introduced to the show host, Natascha Moy, a couple of weeks ago and we're looking at making a pilot for TVS, Sydney's community station, that tries to capture the magic of her radio show. And it does have magic! As well as great food and wine.. there were 6 superb wines from the Canberra District being taste tested on the show..

My wife is also pregnant again, so looks like next year is heralding a new kiddie and a first feature - phew! In a show of support (and to shift a few kilos) I agreed to go teetotal for two months... and haven't had a drink in 6 weeks. A couple more weeks to go... The radio show was the hardest point so far... A glutton for punishment, as my father would say!

Am aiming to update my blog a bit faster, perhaps my new 3GS will help..

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Reports have been exaggerated...

My, my, this blog is in need of posting! Not that I haven't been busy!!

OK, principal photography has completed on PHOBOS, which shot through the whole of May, and on which I was the 'B' Camera operator. It was a great experience and I'm much the wiser for it.

Nuns With Guns is on indefinite hold as a new film script, 'Foolproof', has now replaced it, to film February 2010. Nuns is basically far too complicated for the sub-100K budget I have right now - better I wait and make it properly with a couple of million. Oh well.. However 'Foolproof' is an excellent script and clearly achievable in the timeframe and budget, so I'm all excited about that instead now!!

My wife and daughter have returned from a month away! Whoohoo!

I have completed another corporate project for GDI, it's available now on the site.

Still waiting to hear news about the MCC Motorbike safety video project I've been working on for the last 12 months.. do I have the funding.....

Just shot another short for the Post Office 200 years competition... editing now, will post in the next month...

Ermm that's it for the moment, reading lots of books, toying seriously with a MacBook Pro...

And a video I guess! How about...