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Sept 19, 2009 13:44:32 GMT
Post by Gonga on Sept 19, 2009 13:44:32 GMT
My all time football idol contacting my all time film idol..
Get back in the hoops Paul, we need some class in the team
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Post by Gonga on Sept 15, 2009 11:33:56 GMT
Is anyone going to this..?
I'm heading up on friday and going to the music thing that night also at Magna.
Should be a sweet 24 hours.
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Post by Gonga on Aug 17, 2009 16:26:59 GMT
I noticed while googling for this site that Shane's birthday falls on Boxing day.
I was curious as to whether Shane ever felt that having a birthday so close to Christmas day "diluted" his birthday somewhat. Especially as people are always going to be celebrating Christmas and stressing about all their outgoings and how much they have had to eat and drink over the previous 48 hours. Do people make more effort to celebrate Shane Meadows birthday (despite xmas fatigue now Shane Meadows is Shane FUCKING Meadows legendary world famous film director than when he was merely Shane Meadows aspiring filmmaker)
Did Shane have Jesus envy as a child over the latter getting a bigger party each year..?
Did having your birthday on such an awkward date mean your party bags were slightly less impressive than other kids whose birthdays fell in the summer..?
Did young Shane look forward more to Christmas or to his Birthday..?
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Post by Gonga on Jul 22, 2009 14:25:01 GMT
Jimmy Cameron can be so modest at times.. phnarr phnarr
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Post by Gonga on Jul 22, 2009 14:17:54 GMT
OI OI, hows it going everone.. Just a little update for those who gave their kind words and advice, A Friend For Christmas has been entered in to a number of festivals and has been accepted in to the Irish Film Festival, and is up for best short under 25 minutes. Hopefully it will get accepted in to the others too, I shall wait and see. Also I chucked it on Shooting people, as it seems the smaller festivals are no longer so bothered about if it has been shown online, so if any of you lovely boys and girls happens to be a member of shooting people and can give us a rating and keep the film up the leader board then that would be lovely biscuits. shootingpeople.org/watch/filmofthemonth/leaderboard.phpMuchos grassy arse.
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Post by Gonga on Jun 15, 2009 7:55:29 GMT
Bad Boy Bubby, Australian film starring a British actor Nicholas Hope.
Without doubt one of the most intense and satisfying film experiences I ever had and probably the film that inspired me to want to try making them.
Unfortunately not many people have seen this film, and granted the first 20 odd minutes of Incest, cling film murders and a dead cat in a suitcase is probably enough to make most people switch off.
If Shane has seen it, he will remember it clearly.. Noone forgets their first Bad Boy Bubby experience.
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Post by Gonga on Jun 11, 2009 21:10:37 GMT
Oh, this thread just reminded me of my "if I was a big hot-shot director" dream film project! haha An adaptation of the book, This House Is Haunted by Lionel Playfair (I think) which is an account of the goings of in the Enfield Poltergeist case in the late 70s. An apparently true set of bizarre events set in a suburban council estate, centred around a teenage girl in a single parent family of Mum, two sisters and a brother. The account of what went on is just crazy. If a film was made, you would have to actually tone down the true number of things that happened because it would make it too unbelievable. There was a good documentary about it all on Channel4 a couple of years ago too. There's more than a little bit of The Excorcist about it, but the basis in (supposed) truth makes it fascinating, and the surrounding turmoil in the families non-haunted life makes it more intriguing. There was a great German film called Requiem a year or two ago about a girl diagnosed with epilepsy who's religious family thought she was possessed. It's a true story about how the misreading of epilepsy as possession preyed on her, and the numerous excorcism rituals which destroyed her. This sounds very much like a BBC special they did years back called Ghostwatch that freaked the arse out of 3/4 of the population, so much so they never showed it again and it only got a DVD release around 2002. It was done really well, and was way ahead of its time, seeing as we didn't have much reality TV so most people just kind of accepted what they were told, and having a crew of Sarah Green and Craig Charles reporting from "the most haunted house in Britian" and good old Parky himself in the studio speaking to all kinds of "experts" it was actually great telly and a real classic. You can see all the best bits if you search around You Tube for "Ghostwatch". Granted the acting does now seem pretty poor, and the two girls performances are pretty painful but at the time it fooled a lot of people and it had a massive amount of complaints even though there was a cast and an actors name for the Ghost "Pipes" in the Radio Times. If you can be bothered to buy it rather than see the clips on You Tube then you will be in for a treat. especially if you can forgive the acting. There is a few genuinely creepy moments in there and it was done very well. In terms of realism and fantasy, I've actually got half a script knocking around from a couple of years ago. The idea was to do a fake documentary about a young offender who is just getting out of prison and show his slow and gradually unsuccessful efforts at rehabilition back in to the community. He would go through failed job interviews, move in to a dingy bedsit/flat and start complaining about it. He would go back to drugs and petty crime and so the audience would just think he was fucked and was destined to repeat his mistakes. I was going to have him as a kind of likeable yob, a wee bit philosophical and quite a sympathetic character. Then right towards the end of the documentary loads of mad creepy shit would kick off in his flat, and he would almost seem unsurprised by it. Until something really bad happens and either the sound recordist or the camera man gets killed by some entity and it all goes tits up. Then BANG, credits roll and the audience realises they have been tricked the whole way through and it was all acted. It would require a very good actor though, and the final couple of scenes would have to be planned meticulously.
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Post by Gonga on Apr 22, 2009 19:53:38 GMT
Anyone seen "Knowing"..?
I saw it the other day, heard a few bad reviews but have to say I thought it was brilliant. A really good couple of hours entertainment that crams a lot in, pleases the eyes, ears and brain and has the best plane crash scene you will see without having to be near a crashing plane. The film is also creepier than many big box office horror films and even Cage is decent in it.
Don't listen to the people who say this is rubbish, its great cinema.
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Post by Gonga on Mar 23, 2009 17:46:30 GMT
I really enjoyed that, really nice vibe to the film with a good cause thrown in.. (Although checking that guy out with the green shorts, I reckon Blackburn would do well bringing him back here for their own uses.)
Loved the old guy singing the wee song about Blackburn, that was a quality touch.
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Post by Gonga on Mar 16, 2009 18:18:00 GMT
Hey guys, once again thanks so much for the time you've taken to add your comments.. Its very much appreciated. I'll try and answer a few of your points that I missed out last time.. As you may have noticed I have lost the spoiler.. I guess I only put there as the film itself was bit of a mare in getting made, and when you have spent so much time putting something together you start to see holes in it, thus the fact it is quite long for a short I guess maybe I lost a bit of confidence that people would want to sit through the first 10 minutes watching a man with a sour face talking about cups of tea. In that respect Chromebaby would be right, just one of those things that when you feel you have a bad experience with something you think everyone else will. In answer to Ryd, re:whether I get emotionally involved in watching the film back.. I guess at first I did, moreso when writing it. However when you watch something over and over again in the edit, It becomes harder to maintain the initial feeling and now I end up having a sly chuckle when watching him kill his wife.. Maybe thats wrong, but I guess I always intended the film to be left open to suggestion in terms of how the audience want to feel. You are right though, and having seen the film being made, and watching a close friend of mine dressed as an alien acting a bit strange while a guy kills his wife, it does make it harder to see it for how I wrote it.. I also didn't want to pigeon hole the film in to just being a dark drama, and obviously looking back, with Shane Meadows being my biggest influence I wanted there to be room for people to see the funny side of it, even when it does get a bit dark. As for the picture, I always knew it was going to be a sticking point, it was in the original script and so maybe thats why I have always been a bit stubborn with regards to it staying. There was another part to the ending, where the guy comes out the house and sees a light in the sky, but the footage just wasn't good enough and it got trashed.. Looking at your comments, I will probably go back to it and see how it looks with a slightly altered ending.. There is room for a change as the tilt from him smiling allows a fade to back before the pic comes in to view, and if it does indeed feel better I will have silent grumble to myself.. Again with regards to the actress, I don't think she does a lot of acting work and looking back on it there was no time to do any real rehearsals with her.. She did an good rehearsal for my other film "I Killed Your Cat" but I gave the role to some else who I felt was far better suited.. I guess I gave her the role as she was about the right age, and Irish, which kept in fitting with the nature of the family being Scottish/Irish catholics.. (The film was shot in Essex, but I wanted it to feel like it could have been anywhere, Scotland or Ireland) Anyways, once again I really appreciate your thoughts and comments.. I will have a look over the next couple of days at what a few changes will do to it, and you will be duly noted in a reviewed credits.. (thats if I am not too stubborn to change the ending.. ) Cheers Marc
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Post by Gonga on Mar 14, 2009 21:32:43 GMT
Wow, hey Ryd, I really appreciate your comments. Seriously, its so good to have someone take so much time to say what they thought about the film. Really muchos appreciatos..!
You were on the money with a lot of what you said actually. The film itself has been a real labour of love and I fell out of interest with it a few times and for a while I didnt even think it would get finished. When the rushes came back I found that the DP had sadly had an off day and not calibrated the camera to the movie tube adaptor and a load of the rushes came back looking really soft. There was a couple of scenes chopped off altogether because the image quality was not quite there.
As for the actress, that was a funny one.. She was supposed to be a bit cold, the idea was that the she had forgiven her dad for what he did but she couldn't be arse'd pittying him for too long. Thats why I threw the smoking comment in, to also show that there was also a bit of a distance in their relationship.
I just wanted to make something that made the audience question how they thought they should feel. Which is why I have the picture in at the end. I always believe you should end on a high note, and after having to see the lead witness himself killing his own wife, It would have been far too dour to just leave it there. It was always my intention to replace the cross on the wall with a family portrait involving the Alien. Not just for the light hearted relief, but to get the message across that a cup of tea with a real alien is far more beneficial than a double scotch with absent man upstairs.
As for the technical aspects, this is my short fall. I wrote, produced, directed and edited the whole thing.. and it obviusly gets to the point where I lose the plot a wee bit. I'm not so great with editing and its a real chore.. I'm not planning on putting it in any festivals, I dont think the image quality is good enough when blown out on big screen because of the initial reasons i told you earlier.. I'm just happy to get it down and out there and for people to have a look at really, and once again I am really chuffed with the time you took in your review.
Thanks
Marc
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Post by Gonga on Mar 12, 2009 19:57:35 GMT
Hi guys and girls, here is my 2nd short film entitled A Friend For Christmas..
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Post by Gonga on Jun 19, 2008 13:05:30 GMT
I would like to a doc on the infamous computer game series Championship manager.
I've mentioned it to a few people and at first they think I mean a slow deconstruction of how to play the game, when actually i'm thinking more about the story of how 2 brothers made something in their bedroom that has become a worldwide phenomena, cited in a good few divorce cases and played by celebrities, football players alike and in some cases has been mentioned as a useful scouting tool for managers given the realism of the players details.
I dont play it anymore myself, but it amuses me how the game is still considered somewhat of a guilty pleasure amongst many folk, and its not something people usually admit to playing.
A few women I have mentioned this to saw their faces light up, all of whom with experience of a boyfriend or ex who sat for hours watching a computer screen with words and numbers instead of giving them some attention.
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Post by Gonga on Jun 19, 2008 12:39:10 GMT
the first time I picked a camera up outside animation about 5yrs ago I made a 25min documnetary, I ended up deleting it from youtube as it was pretty much ruining the lives of the "rappers" in it, the sound qualities shite but its pretty entertaining theres only a couple of trailers left on youtube: www.youtube.com/user/copelandthemovie, I might even re upload it, its been 5years!!! DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, I really want to see this.. ;D
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Post by Gonga on Jun 19, 2008 10:03:53 GMT
Just wandered if anyone else has any ideas in the documentary field..?
Personally its something I aim to touch upon over the course of the next year and I'm about to go on a documentary course this weekend run by the people from LivingSpirit who do the Guerilla Filmmakers books.
I think especially in the UK it can only be a wise choice to broaden my type of output with regards to filmmaking, its not as if the UK nurtures talent all to well anyway.
So has anyone worked on any documentary stuff as yet..? Any plans or aspirations to do so..?
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