The Fruits Of Last Night's Labour

The edit is almost complete! Just the credits, the title, the grading and a small jump cut issue on one shot, and it will be almost finished. I do still have to create the DVD menu and the commentary but for the moment I'm proud of the (little over) 10 minute cut. I've also started my showreel even though I've basically only got two films to edit from. Luckily I haven't got fed up the song (its from the Sucker Punch soundtrack). I should point out that I've been drinking mass amounts of coffee and strawberry tea to be able to stay awake and create such things. Headaches are getting worse but I know in the long run it will all be worth it.

Another part of the whole project is the DVD cover, which is also almost done. I just need to add the UH film and TV logo and sort of the DVD Video logo and it will be ready to print. Exciting stuff!

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I haven't forgotten about Barbara and Boris, more on them after this film thing is finished!

I Could Have Been A Post Officer, I Could Have Delivered Post

I've always loved getting post. When I was younger the only post I got was on my birthday or a letter from a relative, because they knew I liked writing and receiving letters. I was known in my family for sending thank you notes in good time and I was always given some kind of letter paper as a present, I didn't complain. I was jealous of my Dad, who got most of the post, even when he said they were bills. I still like sending postcards and letters, an art that has been lost and turned into email. I miss my play Post Office I had when I was younger. I loved writing notes and sending them, didn't matter what they said. I made a post box for each of my family so I could post them letters. Of course they were mistaken for rubbish and thrown away. After that I think I started giving out 'black spots', inspired by Treasure Island. I think I ended up having to sell my post office at a car boot . . .

The anticipation of the post arriving became greater when I moved to Uni halls because I was able to create my own post by shopping online and ebay, oh and letters from home and the bank. Even now, two years later I still get excited, I love opening post. It's like receiving presents when its not your birthday or Christmas. Post this week has included a couple of DVDs, (Monsters, which I recommend you see, and series 1 of Silk, also amazing) a Graze box, which is a this healthy box of nibbles, mostly dry fruit which I love, the Sucker Punch soundtrack, which brightened up the day and I think either tomorrow or the next day I should be receiving some comics and a few things from Little White Lies magazine. All these things I shouldn't be buying, but oh how I love having post!


Update on the film, editing a little over 7 minutes, its looking good so far, only three more scenes to edit and my rough cut is done. I've also started making a DVD cover, won't show you now, I'll perfect it first.

What I Want To Be When I Grow Up

Went into to London today with my housemate to enjoy the glorious sunshine and to buy things. I shouldn't have done really, as I am almost broke from making my film. Speaking of which I have edited another scene and a half, bringing the total up to 4 minutes, which is technically not good for me if I want to keep all the funny parts in. I don't want to have to cut characters out either, but never fear I will make a director's cut and a submission cut, like I usually do.

Last week I had a mock interview for ITV, it was part of a module and so quite important. I hadn't really thought about the job title that much but when it was explained to me in detail, I decided, that this is the job for me. A junior research developer, or something. It's a stepping stone on the way to being able to create your own television shows, which is almost exactly what I want to do, but not to work for ITV, I'd prefer if it was HBO. So if I aim for this job, I'll have money to buy things, such as the nice new headphones, which are perfect for editing and another addition to my giant mug collection, an Alice in Wonderland illustrated mug from Urban Outfittetrs, and of course another Tin Tin book, you can't have enough Tin Tin books. I believe all these things will help me in my future career, especially the mug.

Why Do the Good Shows Always Die?

I can think of dozens of shows that were cancelled before their time, Arrested Development, Carnivale, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and now the massively underrated Outcasts will join the ranks. I used to admire British shows and how they only ran for two or three seasons, they knew their time was up and instead of being cancelled, the actors just didn't want to do another series.  Also they only have 6 or 8 episodes, which makes people more keen to keep following the series. Classic examples are Spaced and Green Wing. Both ran for two seasons (exception on Green Wing special), both were hilarious, both have been given cult status, and rightly so, but both ended because the people involved decided it was enough even though the audience and fans wanted more. But if there had been another series for both I bet the audience numbers would have declined, only because a new generation has come to watch TV and all they like are shows that make people look stupid and reality shows that are the same thing over and over again. Outcasts was a victim of this generation, the show started off slow, I admit that, but it got better, the last few episodes were brilliant and it justified the show to have a second series, at least to tie story lines up. The show had the most intriguing cliff hanger, so many characters and plot lines just abandoned. The BBC really need to consider the audience that watched the show. They need to take into account the amount of people who watched the show on iplayer and who watched the re runs. I have never been so angry with the BBC for cancelling a show. I hope they redeem themselves.

First 31 seconds done, I think I might be celebrating too soon

First 31 seconds of Space Detective have been set in stone! I should mention, it was hilarious! The rest of the film is going to be one hell of a mission though. I have to sync up the audio to each clip and that takes ages and don't even get me started on naming clips that I shouldn't have.

I tried uploading the teaser trailer for Space Detective but of course there was an error. I will try next post, but in the meantime (above) is the teaser poster (still in progress).

Tin Tin is my saviour? Ok, I believe you.

At last I am out of hibernation, the dissertation is finished and handed in, thank god! But now that I've finished that epic piece of writing I am now onto editing Space Detective or least naming clips so I can start. Apart from that, I've been able to watch all my shows I had put on hold and start to follow new ones, such as Campus. Advertised as the replacement for the awesome comedy Green Wing, which ended a few years back, oh how I miss it. I went to all the signings of the DVDs, met the cast, it was great. I agree, Campus is looking to be a reasonable follow up. Cast of, actual laugh out loud actors and the quirky-ness is all there too. Really looking forward to the rest of the series.

On another more serious note, I've been having some very disturbing dreams. I think its because of the late nights where I've been going to bed at 3am. The dreams are just like how they use to be when all I drank was coffee, but now the dreams feel as if they are real and I start to believe the things that happened are reality. I can't write down everything, mostly because I can't remember and because some details are slightly disturbing. A distinct memory from the dream last night was that I was talking about Tin Tin and everyone said he was my saviour and that I was leaving for another country or something. I felt quite ill when I woke up. Then I remembered my ordered food from Tesco was arriving today and I forgot about the dreams until I put on my t-shirt on which has a picture of Tin Tin as the Tinman from Wizard of Oz on it. Everything came rushing back so I had a glass of port to calm me down, it worked, for a bit.