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..

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...

How to ride a bike

Gobsmacking

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.