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Skhizein from Josef K. on Vimeo.
An odd but touching and very impressive 13 minute animated film. As seen on the excellent THIS MAKES MY DAY blog.
Skhizein from Josef K. on Vimeo.
An odd but touching and very impressive 13 minute animated film. As seen on the excellent THIS MAKES MY DAY blog.
I just bought a copy of the film TEN DEAD MEN on DVD. Why? well I like Indie cinema, escpecially when it is UK cinema and even more so when it is violent. I will of course gladly check out any cinema – but this DVD is special as it is made by a friend of mine – Ross Boyask.
Anyway, I digress, his first film LEFT 4 DEAD is available for free! – Yes, that’s right, I said free! – from the Britfilms website. And having seen it already, I can definitely vouch for it being a worthy download. And that has nothing at all to do with the fact that I was almost in the film. Yes, you read that correctly – I originally did a one day shoot with Ross and the other main cast members, with a view to starring as one of two ginger thugs in the film, fighting the main hero in a boxing ring in one scene and playing numerous dead bodies in another scene set in a Dojo. Anyway, to my knowledge, all of that footage remained on the cutting room floor – but now I have the download I can go through it frame by frame and check to see if I recognise myself.
Check out the site and try a streaming version of the full film or download the film as a Quicktime (.Mov) file from: http://l4download.britfilms.tv/
I am currently taking a small break from writing a new short story – a slaughterhouse tale – one that is definitely stretching me in unexpected ways, due to the amount of research I am needing to do, and the restructuring that I need to do to the plot to make it work for me. As a result I am having to learn new, more grown up, ways of working. Mainly because I tend to write instinctively and throw things together, then force them to bend to my will, rather than plan everything intelligently from scratch. I tend to see it in my head and go for it and that is why I often get bogged down later on, when the process is interrupted by the stress of my day job and then I struggle to remember where I was going with something and the mood I was aiming for at the time. I am slowly forcing myself to plan, to plot, to make notes, to research and delay the actual writing process until I am truly ready. It’s quite a demanding process and a bit too much like homework for my liking.
And this hopefully brings me around to the actual point I am trying to make [and badly]: that I am curious as to what tools you [Dear readers] use to construct your masterpieces?
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