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Bradgate Brings Some Finance!

Bradgate Brings Some Finance!

By on July 31, 2007 in Funding

I am delighted to announce that the production company, Bradgate Films, have come on board as a co-producer for ‘Gone Fishing’. Through their excellent connections they have managed to bring £5k of private investment to the project, which is excellent news. Here is what Bradgate say about themselves… 'Bradgate Films are an emerging, midlands based [...]

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A Further £500 raised!

A Further £500 raised!

By on July 30, 2007 in Funding, Screenplay

As we hit the tarmac running today – Monday – just a recap on where we stand money wise. Over the weekend we received a further £500 in donations. So thank you to Paul Nugent, Huw Jenkins, Hazeley Wilson, Jurgen Wolf, Rod Duncan, John Basham, Steve Payne and Simon Reglar. Splendid. We are in the [...]

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Stunt Co-ordinator gets onboard

Stunt Co-ordinator gets onboard

By on July 26, 2007 in Crew

As many of you may know, stunt co-ordinator Terry Forrestal was a key element to us getting started here at Living Sprit. In the very early days of The Runner, he was an industry professional who was instrumental in giving us credibility. He also added huge production value by doing amazing stunts and bringing in [...]

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More Cash and Crewing!

More Cash and Crewing!

By on July 25, 2007 in Art and Stroryboards, Funding

Yesterday I sent out a mail to my mailing list, asking for crew help and specifically a storyboard artist. Boy! I got about 250 responses, so it’s going to take me a little time to get through everyone. It struck me, there is enough enthusiasm and passion there to make five short movies! I think [...]

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We are getting there!

We are getting there!

By on July 24, 2007 in Funding

OK so fund raising is continuing, and we now have a rather spiffy graph, to show us all where we are at. In the last day we had four more people contribute, raising the cash figure to £2,200 – they are Mike Mindel, Ross Edwards, Martin Bowen and Harriet Barbir. So thank you very much [...]

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Gone Fishing – the budget starts to flow in

Gone Fishing – the budget starts to flow in

By on July 22, 2007 in Funding

I have just spent a frantic week, working on casting and all sorts of other stuff. There will be a script redraft very soon, and this little tweak I hope to be the final one. Most important though is that cash has started to flow into the production- pictured is a post card that came [...]

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Auditioning Kids All Day

Auditioning Kids All Day

By on July 19, 2007 in Actors

Yesterday I spent the whole day auditioning kids. With the help casting Director Catherine Arton, and her two helpers, Sammy and Janna, we managed to get through an astonishing 65 children. We worked in small groups, which Sammy would take through their paces with fun and games ‘warm up’ routines. In this first stage, the [...]

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Production Manager Gets Onboard

Production Manager Gets Onboard

By on July 16, 2007 in Uncategorized

‘Gone Fishing’ moved a step closer today when Production Manager Stephanie Wrate joined team Living Spirit in their offices at Ealing Studios. Stephanie has worked in the production department on over 20 films and her experience and professionalism will be a great asset to the movie. She was thrown in at the deep end today [...]

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The Force Was With Me!

The Force Was With Me!

By on July 15, 2007 in Conventions

This weekend I had a great directing job – STAR WARS! Yes, I know! Actually it was at the Star Wars show, but we got to shoot little movies with people in costume and on set, who on minutes earlier, were in the crowd of onlookers. It was more theatre than movie, for sure, but [...]

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Gone Fishing Update

Gone Fishing Update

By on July 12, 2007 in Funding

OK – Here is a brief update as to where we are at with Gone Fishing. From this point onward, we plan to make regular updates to this page, but for now, here is a potted history of how we got here, to July 12th 2007. Back in May, Marc Samuelson from Samuelson Productions, read [...]

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The Funding Documents Arrive!

The Funding Documents Arrive!

By on July 11, 2007 in Funding, Printing

Finally, the funding proposals for ‘Gone Fishing’ have arrived from the printers. In the next few days we are going to be approaching everyone we know to help out and get involved. We will almost certainly be contacting you too! And if we don’t know you, but you are interested, you can contact us at [...]

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HD Hammer Upgrade

HD Hammer Upgrade

By on July 10, 2007 in Uncategorized

It has got to that time where I needed to upgrade and dispose of a few hard drives. Typically I had a bunch of 60gb drives which, frankly, I had lost faith in. If I can’t trust that the drive won’t fail, and these babies were 6 years old, they are of no use – [...]

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Time to bite the bullet (a small one at any rate)

Time to bite the bullet (a small one at any rate)

By on July 7, 2007 in Uncategorized

I have become more involved in ‘Green’ issues recently, and so decided to bite the bullet on one aspect in my life where I have often felt like I don’t know the real answer. Solar power has always seemed like a no brainer for me. Free power from the sky. But does it really work [...]

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Chris Jones PodCast

Chris Jones PodCast

By on July 4, 2007 in Podcast

I have just done a PodCast interview for a film maker called Matt Morreale, at Yoga Maya Films. We had a good old chat over Skype for about 35 minutes and I hope Matt has been able to cut something useful from my comments. If you want to hear this interview, and Matt has others [...]

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DIY mass DVD Duplication

DIY mass DVD Duplication

By on July 3, 2007 in BluRay

Things are kicking off this end. One thing that has always eaten into my creative time is making DVD’s. So I am biting the bullet and making my own DVD duplicator. This is for all sorts of stuff, but I am looking now to the future with ‘Gone Fishing’ and ‘RocketBoy’. In my experience, people [...]

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