The bumps in the road

Well, the girl I wanted in 'The Reunion' has pulled out.

The lady who runs a theatre company that I was hoping to find other actors through is not answering her phone.

I have to go to Vienna tomorrow and I have no cast.

Filming in 2 weeks.

Argh!

Surley this is some sick joke!

And real filmmakers have to fight for funding?!

Location hunting

With Dave and his wife Linda down here this weekend it seems a perfect excuse to go location hunting.

Pictures of potential locations always get people excited about a project. It lets them project themselves into the film.

With the slip shod PLL PKM we did no such thing. A) we never thought about it in advance b) the girls were motivated enough as it was!

WSA is a different beast. We have Chris coming over from the states and Magda from the UK for a start. It would be great to get them in the mood of the piece before they get here.

Magda has it easy, all she has to play is the perfect vision of inner beauty. Chris gets to sweat a lot and be a frustrated wally. I still need to find an older man to play a mystic. I need to get my finger out on that.

The latest on shooting is the week after Cannes.

Finally - MBLL usable draft

I finally finished a good draft of this thing!

It's a comedic tale revolving around an American in London and his search for love. Two main characters, limited locations. Perfect for low budget!

This is based in London (though I guess I could shoot it anywhere). Hmm. Good point, Phil. Why go to London to shoot. Perhaps I can find a london-like location down here. But then we have sun down here, which kind of makes it hard for it to double for dreary Londinium.

So, this makes 5 films (3 shorts, 1 doc and 1 feature) I have in various stages of development. Madness!

Casting

Found a 'new actress' to play the lead in this 4 minute ditty for Cacophony. Have a bead on the remaining 3.

Shoot scheduled for first weekend in Feb

2 weeks of editing

New images

I've uploaded some new photos to my 2005 photos.

Also, check out the new CostaSites.com additions like CostaPokerPlace.com

Happy New Year

I think I am the 23,001,356 person to write that in their blog in the last 24hours. Sad.

It was a traditional New Year's in my house - had our neighbours over and watched Jools' Hootenany. You didn't miss anything.

I never make New Year's resolutions. They seem doomed to failure, and as I am paranoid that my life is doomed to failure anyway I don't see any point in adding fuel to the fire.

Instead of writing this I should be finishing up the first draft of MBLL. I am 30% through it. I could finish it today, but instead I will:

* Clean up the backyard

* Do the dishes

* Walk the dogs

* Make the bed

* Look on Amazon for the best films of 2005 - both editors and customers choices

* Which Chinese news on tv (fascinating story about traditional Haanen clothing being shown in Shanghai province!)

i.e. the usual procrastination techniques.

But I did see an actress that would be great for the main female character in MBLL, so that has kind of inspired me.

Last week, during the nightmare return from Vienna, the idea struck me to do a documentary on dogs in spain. I have had the thought before. The problem is I know nothing about how to make a documentary. It's not point and shoot. That is the 'easy' part. It is how to make it compelling. The story. A good documentary has many similar facets of a good drama, so I should understand it. Maybe I just need to start and get on with it.

A new category on here might arise if I decide to go further.