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Archiving Gone Fishing

Archiving Gone Fishing

By on January 31, 2008 in Negative

Last night I collected the camera negative for ‘Gone Fishing’ from Midnight Transfer, who digitally conformed and graded the movie. This brings up one of the hidden problems that always needs dealing with when you make a movie. What do you do with all the stuff? 35mm neg is big and heavy and there were [...]

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Guerilla Masterclass Feedback, Jan 2008

Guerilla Masterclass Feedback, Jan 2008

By on January 30, 2008 in Film Production, Training

After running the Masterclass this weekend, I have myself been pretty amped up! For me it’s the hidden benefit of doing something like this. You get to spend the whole weekend, out of closet, and screaming at the top of your lungs, I LOVE MOVIES! And everyone feels the same way too! I had not [...]

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The week from HELLLLLLL!

The week from HELLLLLLL!

By on January 29, 2008 in Training

Last week was the week from hell. Aside from all the Gone Fishing stuff, I had to take care or an enormous corporate video job, and host one of my gruelling two day masterclasses over the weekend. The corporate job was ENORMOUS and I enlisted the help of second unit director on Gone Fishing, Simon [...]

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Meeting with the British Council

Meeting with the British Council

By on January 25, 2008 in British Council, Oscars, Publicity

Today, the Film Festival plans for Gone Fishing took their first big steps. I met with the charming Kasia Skibinska from the British Council – she looked relieved whe I saw her as it’s just been reported that the knife hanging over the film department at the BC has (for now) been removed. It’s business [...]

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Rules, principles and guides…

Rules, principles and guides…

By on January 24, 2008 in Offline Edit, Training

This weekend coming, I will be running my weekend masterclass at Ealing Studios, and probably, the last one for some time. Every time I run one of these classes, I spend time beforehand reflecting on current trends and shifts in film making. Of course, I still have last weekends premiere bouncing around and I am [...]

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The British Council

The British Council

By on January 23, 2008 in Festivals, Film Production

Every film I have ever made has made it out to many film festivals. Luckily for me, I live in the UK and the British Council has always been there to help get my movies, and the movies of other UK film makers, out there. Essentially, they help promote British Culture abroad. I am going [...]

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What's next for Gone Fishing?

What's next for Gone Fishing?

By on January 22, 2008 in Negative, Post Production, Sales

So now we have tow major steps to complete for Gone Fishing. First is getting it out there, getting the film working for us, especially with regard to things like film festivals, awards, agents, managers, studio executives etc. More on that in the next few days. The other major step is to complete Gone Fishing [...]

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HD Sound Encoding

HD Sound Encoding

By on January 20, 2008 in BluRay, HD in post, Sound

I am now working out how to make an HD DVD or BluRay disk for Gone Fishing, so I can show it on courses and at home in HD – and also, send it off to festivals (if they start to move in the ‘domestic HD delivery format’ direction). While the difference between DVD and [...]

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The Final Word…

The Final Word…

By on January 19, 2008 in Cast, Contributors, Crew, Premiere

Over the last few days I have received over 100 congratulatory emails. Thank you to everyone who wrote, it was touching, and also great for other cast and crew members to hear just how much you appreciated the design, costumes, makeup, image, music, sound… I don’t have space for them all, so here are a [...]

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Premiere Photos Online Now

Premiere Photos Online Now

By on January 18, 2008 in Premiere

I have uploaded most of the photos that I have received from people who attended the ‘Gone Fishing’ premiere last weekend. They are in a Flckr account, which after some trawling, I decided was the best way to do it (if anyone knows a better online free photo share site, let me know). The pics [...]

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Music for Gone Fishing

Music for Gone Fishing

By on January 17, 2008 in Music

I have received a huge amount of emails from people saying how much they enjoyed the film. I have also had requests about the music, some of you want to know how to hear it again. So I have made up a short edit of the music tracks, which runs for about 15 minutes, and [...]

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The Big Night Finally Arrives!

The Big Night Finally Arrives!

By on January 15, 2008 in Premiere, VideoBlog

If you have problems playing the video, click here After a long, hard, but immensely rewarding day running the seminar on ‘Gone Fishing’, the time had come to get changed into my DJ and prepare for the premiere. We had been very worried about numbers as we had invited nearly 300 people to the event, [...]

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The Big Day Finally Arrives!

The Big Day Finally Arrives!

By on January 14, 2008 in Premiere, Training

Blimey! Blimey! And thrice blimey! What a day Saturday was, the ‘Gone Fishing’ Seminar and World Premiere. I am going to write about the seminar today and premiere tomorrow. I had been thinking about the seminar from before I made Gone Fishing, and so collated all the important document and materials. I thought the course [...]

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Resting for a day…

By on January 13, 2008 in Premiere

As I promised today, the day after the premiere for Gone Fishing, is that of lying down, snoozing and pizza. I am really extraordinarly tired. I will be reporting on the seminar and premiere over the next few days, with photos and hopefully a video too. Never mind onward and upward, now it's stay still [...]

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The Longest Day

The Longest Day

By on January 12, 2008 in Premiere

Today is the day….No more procrastinating. It’s all ready, or as ready as it could be… It’s 6.30am as I write this and ahead of me lies a whole day seminar on the making of Fishing, followed by the world premiere at BAFTA. I can’t tell you how many things could go wrong… but I [...]

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