Tweet During the overhaul of my website, I have used a cool new tool to map the history of Living Spirit. You can see it above. It’s made me reflect on how much low cost or free ‘plugin’ technology I am using now. There is this, created by Dipity, I also use Google Calender (plugged [...]
Archive | 2010
Why I chose Jimdo.com for my static website for Living Spirit Pictures
Christmas has always been a time when I review my web assets. The phone doesn’t ring and I get fewer emails, and so I have time to get stuck into my website without distraction. I was one of the first indie production companies to run a website in the UK, we launched back in 1994 [...]
Why do we make films? Watch this short film and feel the magic… (switch to 720P and watch full screen!)
Tweet By means of a little Christmas spirit, I thought I would share this film with you, made by David Reynolds. It was made as an entrant for the Pepsi film makers challenge. It really touched me when I saw it as it captured everything I love and hate about film making. And so I [...]
Writing For The Digital Film Makers Age, with Phil Parker, free 1 hour Seminar
JOIN LIST BELOW FOR YOUR PASSWORD As you may know, we filmed many of the seminars, workshops and panels at the London Screenwriters Festival, which was no small task I can tell you! Four teams, 9 HD cameras, four sound kits and four sessions a day… And that’s just the shooting! Then there was the [...]
What will you be watching on Christmas day?
Pictured here are my business partner David Chamberlains kids, glued to the screen and watching ‘Gone Fishing’. When they get to the end the usually shout out ‘Again, again! We want to see Goliath!’ It always amazes me how kids really ‘get’ it. Every year I receive emails from people who discover this short film [...]
A Writers Guide To Helping Get Your First Feature Film Produced
At the London Screenwriters Festival we ran a session called ‘Should You Produce?’ Then concept was simple. If you are a director, writer or actor etc… why wait for the big break? Create the big break by producing a film yourself. Lucy V Hay who worked tirelessly for the festival, has just done that. She [...]
Need inspiration for your next film? Want some script coaching? The 21st Century Screenplay by Linda Aronson
In this half hour interview, screenwriting guru Linda Aronson talks about new models and tools that can be used by 21st Century Screeenwriters. The conversation was particularly inspirational for me as it dealt with some problems I always came up against when using the three act structure or Heros Journey models (there is also an [...]
How Do You Create Success For Your Film Making Career In 2011?
As 2010 draws to a close, it’s time to consider 2011. What will 2011 hold for me, and for you? Around this time of year, as most people start sloping off into endless Xmas parties and shindigs, I like to hunker down and consider the next year. And the next big project… That always begins [...]
Top Tips For Dealing With Film And Media Related Press
In the run up to the London Screenwriters Festival I found myself with a Tiger by the tail. We had been attempting to get publicity for the festival, and one journalist had perused me for a story about the film industry. And she was clear, she needed a story with some meat on the bones. [...]
Christmas Networking Party 2010 – WIN £50 and FINAL DRAFT!
One book, two scripts, a dozen live TV shows and a three day screenwriters’ festival later… and you bet we’re going to throw a big fat party!! And in keeping with the festive spirit we’ve decided to mix things up with the very first ever LSF vs Guerilla Film Makers Annual Christmas Quiz and Networking [...]
What use is a Spam Filter?
Over the last few years I have noticed a trend. On occasion, it goes something like this. Someone contacts me for some reason and so I respond to them. Three days later I get an irate email asking why I didn’t send them ‘that thing’, ‘forward that link’, ‘email that password…’ etc. I then suggest [...]
Help us win the Empire Awards, your vote will REALLY make a difference!
It's been a great year for EXAM, prize-wise. First we got a BIFA nomination, then a BAFTA nomination, then we won the Santa Barbara Film Festival, and recently we scooped the Golden Hitchcock Award at the Dinard Film Festival. You might think our eligibility cycle would be over by now… but you'd be wrong. There [...]
Dear Santa, What I Want For Christmas Is Some Really Cool Film Making Stuff…
It’s that time of year when my girlfriend says ‘my family don’t know what to buy you for Christmas, can I have a list?’ You see I am pretty hard to buy presents for. And I have come to realise that most film makers are equally tough to buy for too. So I have amassed [...]
A Masterclass In Microbudget Film Making – Interview with 'Paranormal Activity' writer and director Oren Peli
Believe it or not, I only just caught up with ‘Paranormal Activity’. I know, we even interviewed director Oren Peli in the last Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook! Still, it’s been a frantically busy year. First off, I have to say just how impressed I was with the film. He managed to keep up pace, tension [...]
Celebrating a breakthrough year and a LANDMARK MILLION! The Production Office LIVE hits 1,000,000 viewer minutes!
Yes, we just past the big one million. How amazing is that! To celebrate, we decided to share ALL of our episodes on the blog, a kind of retrospective of what we managed to achieve this year. Above is last weeks episode, below are the earlier shows. For me, the highlight show was Cannes – [...]
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Does the National Minimum Wage (NMW) mean the end of micro budget film making the UK?
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BECTU debate and the National Minimum Wage…
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Avid or Final Cut Pro X? Tips for setting up your first feature film cutting room.
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It’s time for film makers to take action over distribution… it’s OUR problem, not theirs!
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The phone rang, and from that moment, everything changed… PART 1
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Origin of Success, guest blog from Danny Stack
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Rare archive podcast interview with legendary American screenwriter and director John Hughes
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How to use powerful film lighting in a domestic situation without a generator
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Producing ‘Clowning Around’ with Leilani Holmes
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Your film is unique – no single solution fits all, the fundamental rule of nu-distribution
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