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Senior Sound Designer Starts Work On Gone Fishing!

Senior Sound Designer Starts Work On Gone Fishing!

By on October 29, 2007 in Sound

I had a splendid meeting today with Bernard O’Reilly who will be our senior sound designer on Gone Fishing. Bernard works for a renowned company called Videosonics that have done the final mix for many a Hollywood Blockbuster. So to have him and Videosonics onboard is a great coup. So today, Bernard and I worked [...]

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The Accounts Are Done!

The Accounts Are Done!

By on October 27, 2007 in Budgeting, Contributors

In an entire day of HELL – can I say that loud enough – HELL!!!!! – the accounts for Gone Fishing have been done. It started at 9am this morning with a pre breakfast meeting with my accountant, before a day of paper sifting, through receipt after receipt. The actual GF accounts are really what [...]

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Gone Fishing Locks Picture Edit at 1.45am!

Gone Fishing Locks Picture Edit at 1.45am!

By on October 26, 2007 in BluRay, DVD, Offline Edit, SFX

So we locked the picture edit at 1.45am last night. Editor Eddie Hamilton and I made a huge number of tweaks that at first glance, are fairly minimal in impact, but we both know that they made a big difference holistically. At one point Eddie stopped and looked at me grinning and commenting that ‘it’s [...]

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Compiling Clips for the Gone Fishing Course

Compiling Clips for the Gone Fishing Course

By on October 25, 2007 in SFX, Training

I have been working on the one day course for the contributors of Gone Fishing today, and building the DVD with the clips. I have lots of video goodies, including this one here, which illustrates different slow motion frame rates. For some scenes we used an electronic High Speed camera which came in a van [...]

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Exec Producer Dave Hardwick gets onboard Gone Fishing!

Exec Producer Dave Hardwick gets onboard Gone Fishing!

By on October 24, 2007 in Contributors, Funding

Great news! Executive Producer David Hardwick has come onboard Gone Fishing, adding to our coffers. This is particularly good news for me as Dave has now invested in every single film I have made! He should be given a knighthood as a patron for the arts! The pic here is taken in Cannes a few [...]

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Gone Fishing First Press!

Gone Fishing First Press!

By on October 23, 2007 in Magazine Articles, Publicity

We have just received our first press, from the local newspaper in my home town of Wigan. You can read the article here. The great thing about local press is that they always paint you in a good light, and also give you lots of space. This kind of grass roots coverage is always good [...]

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VFX starts

VFX starts

By on October 19, 2007 in Post Production, SFX

We have begun the visual effects stage for Gone Fishing! Hoorah! Yesterday, Midnight Transfer took the 35mm film and scanned selected shots on their Northlight scanner. The shots were outlined in a EDL supplied by Eddie Hamilton (Editor) and are just the shots that need visual effects work. We shot both 3perf and 4perf 35mm [...]

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Accounts… where did the money go?

Accounts… where did the money go?

By on October 18, 2007 in Budgeting

It’s getting to the time where I need to file my VAT quarter, which means I will need to go through all the receipts and invoices on the spike in my office. This is not a job I enjoy. In fact, most people just bundle it off to the accountants! But I am going to [...]

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So the plot thickens…

So the plot thickens…

By on October 17, 2007 in Offline Edit, Screenings, SFX

We have been editing, testing, editing, testing… and getting great results and feedback in these screenings. In some ways we are now slipping into analysis paralysis on some points, but on others, we are really having to fine tune the edit. For me, great movies stretch the credible right to the very edge. You take [...]

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Test Screening 3 and final roller

Test Screening 3 and final roller

By on October 15, 2007 in Screenings, SFX

Last night, after a small re-edit, we held another test screening. Results were as usual very interesting. No revelations this time, just amplifications on what we already knew, and a few more ideas to integrate into final picture grading. At some point, screenings like these start slipping into opinion – which isn’t much use. Analysis [...]

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Test Screening Number 2 – new stuff discovered!

Test Screening Number 2 – new stuff discovered!

By on October 14, 2007 in Screenings, Sound

Last nights test screening went very well. Lot’s more stuff discovered. First off, everyone really enjoyed the film and felt impressed by how ‘BIG’ it felt. This is mainly down to the story, photography and music, and also the simple ‘non tricksy’ direction I think. I am very pleased. But… we still have some stuff [...]

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Gone Fishing Get's it's first Fine Cut! And it's AWESOME!

Gone Fishing Get's it's first Fine Cut! And it's AWESOME!

By on October 13, 2007 in Offline Edit, Post Production, Screenings

Last night I worked until 2am with editor Eddie Hamilton as we fine tuned the third major recut of the film. This third cut is really a long series of tweaks rather than a re-cut. I think we had the structure nailed in the last edit. This edit was all about adding the shots we [...]

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Re-recording ADR in car with our lead actor!

Re-recording ADR in car with our lead actor!

By on October 12, 2007 in Actors, Post Production, Sound

I just spent the morning with our lead actor, Bill Paterson, as we re-recorded the story of how his character Old Bill, caught the biggest pike in the world. In the narrative, this takes place in a car, so we re-recorded it in his car just outside his house. I used my trusty old Sennheiser [...]

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Building the 1 Day Course for Gone Fishing

Building the 1 Day Course for Gone Fishing

By on October 11, 2007 in Camera, Post Production, Screenplay, Training

I spent most of yesterday planning the 1 day course that the £100 ‘Gone Fishing’ contributors will receive, some time in January 2008. I have also been cutting a trailer which I plan to put up on the site in the next few days. I have decided to make the course a kind of chronology [...]

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Production Music for Gone Fishing

Production Music for Gone Fishing

By on October 10, 2007 in Music

I have been working on music (STILL I KNOW!)for the last few days and have come to believe that in order to get the immense and epic battle music I need, I am going to have to use some library or production music. This seems to me to be the only way to get that [...]

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