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Who is in your crew? A guide to low budget film crews

By on April 4, 2012 in Crew, Production

In advance of the Producers Masterclass in June, I thought I would share the first part of the chapter on crewing from The Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint. It’s a template for a low budget feature film crew and exactly who you will need at various budget bumps. Of course every film is different and [...]

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Failing to plan is planning to fail… Film making success lies in pre-production

Failing to plan is planning to fail… Film making success lies in pre-production

By on May 22, 2011 in Budgeting, Cast, Crew, Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass, Inspiration, Locations, Pre-Production

I am spending the weekend building and updating my presentation for The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass on June 4th and 5th. (90% sold out now, so don’t wait if you want to come, and use the discount code CHRISJONESBLOG to get it for £60, reduced from £119.00 – go here http://www.guerillamasterclass.com) And I wanted to [...]

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Rocketboy development…

Rocketboy development…

By on September 1, 2008 in Crew

I am starting back on Rocketboy now, and today I had a really productive meeting with Ramon Woolfe, from Remark! Ramon is a Deaf film maker and we met to discuss, among other things, his possible involvement in Rocketboy. The central core of the story in Rocketboy is first love, between 16 year old rocket [...]

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Credit where credit is due…

Credit where credit is due…

By on August 31, 2008 in Crew, Inspiration

I wanted to take a moment to just acknowledge a few people involved in Gone Fishing, sometimes in a slightly lateral way. Johnny Newman, a director friend of mine, encouraged me to make a short after he made his own short called Foster, which also played at Rhode Island! Johnny also encouraged me to enter [...]

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The Posters Are Finally Sent Out!

The Posters Are Finally Sent Out!

By on August 27, 2008 in Crew, Publicity

Finally, the postal tubes for the posters arrived – at the same time as the newest member of Team Living Spirit. Catherine Balavage, pictured here, started today. Hoorah! After being asked why she thought it was a good idea to get cramped into a tiny, overheated, noisy office, her answer was simple… ‘I wanted to [...]

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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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Compiling Titles

Compiling Titles

By on October 4, 2007 in Cast, Credits, Crew

I have been collating the titles for the end crawler. This presents a number of practical problems. First off is just how do you format it so that you can easily use it in other programs once all typed out in MS Word? The big thing is to NEVER use tabs. Just write the test [...]

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Pickup shoot moved for weather

Pickup shoot moved for weather

By on October 3, 2007 in Camera, Crew, Locations, Pickups, Shooting

Gone Fishing looks absolutely amazing. In large part this is down to Vernon’s photography and his insistence that we wait on the sun. We were very lucky in the main shoot and managed to shot mostly in bright sunshine, which Vernon then filled the harsh shadows with a whopping great 15k light and bounce boards. [...]

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Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass Graduate, Rob Goodwin on Gone Fishing

Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass Graduate, Rob Goodwin on Gone Fishing

By on September 24, 2007 in Crew, Professionalism, Shooting

A few years back, Robert Goodwin came on my two day film making seminar,  When I asked for help on Gone Fishing, he was one of the people who answered, and in fact, kept answering and giving me reasons why he should be involved. I managed to get the photographer to shoot some pics with [...]

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Less than 12 hours to go…

Less than 12 hours to go…

By on September 7, 2007 in Actors, Camera, Crew, Production, Production Design

A few hours ago, the camera truck arrived and I took a pic of the contents for this blog. Blimey! Look at it all. Two 35mm cameras and all the bits. Not much like an HDV camera and tripod is it! Ok. It’s 11.30 and I will be up at 5.15 tomorrow morning. Breakfast at [...]

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Announcing some cast and crew!

Announcing some cast and crew!

By on August 31, 2007 in Actors, Crew

OK, it’s time we started to reveal who some of our talented cast and crew are going to be… First off, I am more than delighted to announce that seasoned DP, no British LEGEND, Vernon Layton, will be shooting ‘Gone Fishing’. This is awesome news as Vernon truly is an artist. Among many others Vernon [...]

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Sound Recordist, Killer Pike and Killer Bunnies!

Sound Recordist, Killer Pike and Killer Bunnies!

By on August 20, 2007 in Crew, SFX

Great news today. Experienced sound recordist Adrian Bell has agreed to record sound on ‘Gone Fishing’. This is particularly good news for me as Adrian recorded sound on my first feature film, ‘The Runner’, the movie that inspired ‘The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook’! So terrific! Adrians website is here. He will be using hard drive [...]

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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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