You’ve got your script. You’ve conned someone into being your producer. You’re starting to get the locations together, you’re thinking about what camera you’re going to shoot on but you need one of the most important departments of filmmaking sorted before you move too much further forward. The actors. Without actors, you don’t have much …
Pre-Production: Auditions – Part 01
I am delighted to report that regardless of any qualms or nerves expressed in previous posts, the auditions for With A Little Help From Our Friends went mind-blowingly well. I’ll break down the process during the week, but in summary (at the beginning, I know, it’s a bit weird) we had: – Roughly 100 applications …
Pre-Production: Organising Auditions; A Cautionary Tale
Operation: Playstation This week has been entirely flat out for me. Not only did we lose a day to a three day weekend (trust me, I am not complaining about that in the slightest!), but my ‘normal’ nine-to-five job has kicked up a notch in the past two weeks and it’s all go go go …
Call to Arms
So it begins. The hunt for actors. I’m holding auditions this Sunday up in High Barnet and my fingers are crossed that there will be a few people who actually show up. I know that it can be really hard to get actors to get excited about a film that they’re not being paid for, …
Closer!
I am incredibly pleased to say that we are one step closer to making With A Little Help From Our Friends! I say one step, however, this week a couple of steps have gone forward and the film is looking like it is definitely going to happen which is exciting because for awhile there I …
Thinking Outside The Box
Hi everyone! Sorry the blog post is a little later than usual this week – it’s been a crazy few days in Londonia, as well as trying to figure out what we’re going to do about our location problems. If you caught last week’s blog post, you’ll know that we’re having some issues trying to …
Location, location, lo – what?
Hi all! Sorry for the radio silence over the past few weeks. I’ve been busy gallavanting around the world with precious little time to post to the blog. However, all is not lost and you guys get a post today! Whilst I’ve been away, Jack and Craig have been chasing up various bits and pieces. …
And so it goes!
Happy Tuesday everyone! I hope you’re all wonderfully well and being wonderfully creative and productive. I’m very excited to announce the fact that ‘With A Little Help From Our Friends’ is 100% back on track, thanks to a couple of people I met at the Guerilla Filmmakers’ Masterclass at the start of June. Say G’Day …
Sharing the Love
Two friends of mine and I are trying something new and different. Just for fun. Jamie has popped up on this blog before (and he also has his own blog). Leilani hasn’t (but she, too, has her own blog). One thing we all have in common (other than how awesome we are) is that we …
Moving Forward
Sorry the post is a little later than usual this week, I’ve been otherwise distracted with very good things that have very little to do with filmmaking (i.e. my family flying halfway across the world to see me). As a result, today’s post will be a short update on what’s going on with the film. …