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IPhone Kaput

The iPhone love affair is over.. It simply didn't survive the daughter test :-(( 1 and a half months then kaput. The ever-reliable HTC comes to the rescue and probably for some time, because nobody seem excited at the thought of having to fix my phone.

Finished another Short Film based on the play from January, Here it is:



The Boomtime Productions website is also coming along nicely, check it out http://www.boomtime.com.au

The Nuns first draft script is about to be released. Bloody hell! OK that'll do for now.

A video!

And of course I just forgot to post a video! This one cracked me up :-)

Update & The Cult of DONE

It's been a while so a quick update.

The Nuns With Guns script is looking good! :-) What an insane concept!! I'm sick of watching Australian movies playing it safe. Of listening to supposedly 'upcoming' directors paranoid about their first movie and how it must be 'perfect' or they'll never get another chance. Of films that had to be made' but didn't have to be watched. What happened to entertaining the audience instead of pandering to the bloody funding body?

I watched 'Blue Murder' last weekend and thought 'wow'. It's a great story, scary, involving, intense, a committed cast and crew, done on a tiny budget, on the run, and is basically 20 times the first Underbelly, more like 100 times the second. I've been watching Aussie movies consistently over the last few weeks and the sad thing is none of them have inspired me enough to actually write anything about them. (OK Suburban Mayhem was pretty good). Blue Murder is better than any of them and it's not even a movie!

OK glad that's off my chest.

Now for a new mantra I've tracked down... The Cult of Done Manifesto. Great stuff. I realise this is the manifesto I've been working to my whole life! There's a link on the right to more information an doptional posters, but this is the basic manifesto itself.

Enjoy :-)

The Cult of Done Manifesto

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

iPhone Tragic - Official

A few changes to mention.

The blog name has changed. NWG is on course but it's not the only reason for this blog. So the name has changed.

I am officially an iPhone tragic. I will never have to see that annoying 'Low memory' message on a Windows Mobile phone again. Thank God! I may also start posting things from the bloody thing.

Now enough of the technicals. Film!

Chocolate is finished. It can be watched right here.


Chocolate from LostSheep Productions on Vimeo.

Overall I'm very happy with it. Punchlines are tough but the journey is very pleasant.

I've also filmed the play, Lovely Bits. Editing it at the moment. Hired another EX1 to do a 2 camera shoot, unluckily couldn't find anyone experienced to help me so had to deal with both cameras myself. But it looks like it's worked, hopefully I'll have a cut ready in the next week or so!

The Stinkwater International Film Festival is on this weekend, I'll be at the Ritz on sunday in Randwick. The Spot Food Festival runs all day.

The food festival is free, the film festival is $10, but if you find me I can probably get you in free. As Stella Artois are sponsoring the event there will also be a few free beers involved!

Peter Garrett's coming along for the movies and to hang out.

Michael Caton (Packed to the Rafters), Bud Tingwell (The Castle) and Roy Billing (Underbelly 2) will also be there as they are being inducted into the Australian Film Walk of Fame - You know plaques in the pavement and all that.

If anyone reads this comes along, finds me and says 'Razmattaz' in my ear, I will get you into the film festival for nothing and give you free beer all night. More info below::

PJ

THE SPOT FOOD & FILM FESTIVAL

SUNDAY 1st MARCH 2009 - from 1pm outside the RITZ

The closing day of the Arts festival is a wonderful community celebration as Randwick City Council, the Crowne Plaza Coogee Arts Festival & the Ritz Cinema join together in the streets of the Spot with a feast of food, entertainment, children’s activities and film.

The celebrations begin at 1.00 pm when the streets surrounding the Spot are closed to traffic and opened to fun with food and music, jumping castles, petting zoos, helicopter simulators and much more in a film themed street festival.

The Ritz Lounge Bar and Balcony will be open for anyone who wants a relaxing birds eye view of all the celebrations and festivities on the day. Come and enjoy a drink whilst the kids enjoy the street fair and all the activities available in the Spot.

THE AUSTRALIAN FILM WALK OF FAME

SUNDAY 1st MARCH 2009 - 7.00pm outside the RITZ

On Sunday, March 1st, 7pm - we commemorate the legends of Australian film by placing plaques in their honour in the footpath outside the Ritz Cinema as part of the Australian Film Walk of Fame.

The Arts Festival concludes with the 6th

STINKWATER! INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

SUNDAY 1st MARCH 2009 - 7.30pm - Cinema 1

The 2008 screening of STINKWATER! was totally booked out over a week beforehand, so make sure you book early.

New Year, New Projects

Well the run of Lovely Bits at the Newtown Theatre is over, but everyone who visited enjoyed it. We were beaten to a place in the final by a 'dramatic' piece called Mandragora, but the audience loved us. :-) It was a comedy piece after all!

Ayways back to Guns, though it's possible we may do a quick film of the play - everyone's very keen!

Am also doing a session tomorrow on Natural Beauty Queen with the editor, Alison. Got to remember what plans I had!

FInally Kate sent me a very funny link today, you can customise it yourself by changing the name, here you go!

http://www.worldsgreatestbusinessmind.com/20090118-PJ-Collins-create.html&WT.mc_id=WGBM|Create

Enjoy!

Happy New Year!

Hello hello.. So much has gone on... Best start on what I'm doing now.

My play (or rather the first play I've ever directed) is on at the Newtown Theatre, Sydney 13-18 January as part of Short & Sweet! OK so it's been on a night already but better I mention it late than never! It's gone down very well so far, in fact I heard that last night one of the judges was 'deeply insulted' by it - LOL! Find out more here . Anyways we keep working on it each night - quite a few of my friends are coming for the friday performance - I want it to be at it's best by then!

Now I've also finished Chocolate, the short film I mentioned before. It's a sweet little number and I'm glad it's done, slightly unsure what to do with it now. I've stuck it into Tropfest, not that I'm wildly hopeful, but I guess you never know. In the meantime I'm back onto the NWG project.

Yes yes Nuns With Guns.. This is THE YEAR!

I've decided to delay principal filming significantly, think now October 2009. There will be plenty of filming before then but for the main shoot, there's so much to work on first that there's no point rushing in. I want this to be as good as it possibly can be - the only deadline I've set myself is that all filming will be completed by the end of this year. At the moment I'm going back into the story to make sure it's superb and achievable and that I start off with a GREAT SCRIPT, the first and foremost requirement for a film project. The contacts at least keep coming in - those listings in IF and Encore have been useful.

Now, a video. This is something bizarre I came across the other week, very well made, well shot and well twisted. I give you Teddy Saw.


Teddy Saw from Ben Schwartz on Vimeo.