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Archive | May, 2007

£10k Comp for Genre Movies

By Chris on May 30, 2007 in Uncategorized

I just got this email about a £10k competition… It's for genre work, which you know is up my street, so check it out. You may have heard that we’ve launched a new round of 25 Words Or Less, this time alongside Warp X, Vertigo and Slingshot, geared towards writing for low budget features. We’d [...]

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Have you thought about it?

By Chris on May 27, 2007 in Documentary

Many new drama film makers are turning to documentary as a REAL WAY TO MAKE MONEY and survive! We at Living Spirit have done so already. Have you thought about it? What are you currently doing to stay afloat? Have you thought about using your camera, editing software and website as a real way to [...]

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Everything is negotiable…

By Chris on May 24, 2007 in Magazine Articles

Part of the Total Film article I just wrote, wasn’t used. It’s an exercise really, to get us all used to negotiating more than we feel comfortably doing. This will give you an edge. So here is the text… Everything is negotiable To a film producer, every penny spent is a penny that could be [...]

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Print out and stick in your loo!

By Chris on May 23, 2007 in Writing

As a way to inspire you and us, to write better scripts, we have been working on a number of A4 pages to print, read, and stick in your loo / next to you bed / under your mouse-mat. We are starting with one that was in part posted on Jurgen Wollf’s Time To Write [...]

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FREE Writers Tools!

By Chris on May 22, 2007 in Software, Writing

I just wanted to share with you an amazing little utility I found for writers on a PC. It’s a Dictionary / Thesaurus affair, and much more. It is called WordWeb, and it#s is easy to install and use. It features it’s own dictionaries, and can also link to web based content like WikiPedia. When [...]

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How To Make A Film Part 2 in Total Film – OUT NOW!

By Chris on May 21, 2007 in Magazine Articles

So I have come back from a brief break to find, at the airport, part two of team Living Spirit’s How To Make A Movie in Total Film Magazine. This one deals with the actual making of the movie, where the last was about the concept and script. You can download the first couple of [...]

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ROCKETBOY may be fuelling for take off!

By Chris on May 10, 2007 in Rocketboy

As many of you will know, I have spent many years working on a project called Rocketboy – and yesterday we had the best meeting yet with a very serious possible producer who just loved it. This has kicked me into MASSIVE ACTION, which is a terrific feeling. Already I have knuckled down and penned [...]

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Are you ready for a crash?

By Chris on May 5, 2007 in Uncategorized

Last week I had a spectacular disk crash on my main computer. Thank god I am someone who is anal about backing up my data, and with some wailing and gnashing of teeth, I was up and running within a day. We all know computers crash, but we always think it will be someone else’s. [...]

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Total Film School! Three Part Feature, Part 1!

By Chris on May 3, 2007 in Magazine Articles

The first part of our three part ‘How To Make A Movie Feature’ for UK Film Mag TOTAL FILM is now out. A full eight pages of starter tips from Team Living Spirit! Here is one little chunk from this first part… GET A CAREER PLANMost people don’t think beyond the movie they’re making right [...]

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Foster / Hollywood Update

By Chris on May 2, 2007 in Hollywood

So here it is, the update from my friend Jonny Newman on his trip to LA after his short film success ‘Foster’… "You wait for the call for years. When i got it, my phone was switched off. It was Peter Farrelly (of the Farrelly Brothers) telling me he loved my film and wanted to [...]

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Remember to switch off vibrate!

By Chris on May 1, 2007 in Uncategorized

As we are approaching Cannes, I have been advising some film makers to take a compact DVD player with headphones so that they can show their work on the spur of the moment, to any potential investor / actor / producer / sales agent etc. The technology always gets a look in too, ‘Oh that’s [...]

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