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
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 [...]
Auditioning Kids All Day
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
‘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!
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
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 [...]
The Funding Documents Arrive!
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 [...]
HD Hammer Upgrade
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)
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
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 [...]
DIY mass DVD Duplication
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 [...]
Total Film Three Part Feature
Now that the three part Total Film Articles, written by team Living Spirit, are no longer on the shelves, we have uploaded the whole lot to our website. That’s 26 Pages of starter tips and hints for making your first short film. It’s a 12mb PDF download and you can get it here… Onward and [...]
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Movie Blueprint New Cover Quotes!
Out of the blue, I got a call from the publishers of The Movie Blueprint – they are shifting printers and have lost the digital files for the cover. So I seized the opportunity to redesign the cover, adding some of the quotes we got from reviews. I also thought, ‘I wonder if anyone has [...]
Rocketboy rewrite begins
I am working on the screenplay for Rocketboy today, and going over my notes from the reading last weekend. Two further things have since struck me. I can’t express just how valuable it was to hear my dialogue read out loud. It really does take on a new life – on the page and in [...]
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GONE FISHING Proposal final proofs before printing
I am just putting the final touches to my investment proposal for my short film, ‘Gone Fishing’, before I send it off to the printers tomorrow. It’s a fairly bold and unusual way of funding the movie, but I am hopeful that it will pay off. We are making up a full colour folded A4 [...]
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