Another hard day at the pub

So I spent the majority of yesterday down the student union bar. Now don’t fuckin’ start, with all your abuse, and time wasting student scum emails!! On first sight, John, Harry and I may not have appeared to be the hive of productivity that we in fact were, but don’t you worry many a production problem has been solved over a pint of the black stuff! Yesterday was spent planning and we did in all fairness address many issues that have been troubling me. We are still in need of a Producer and this worries me, I have been thinking about it a lot and the more I think, the more I know I shouldn’t be doing it all by myself. It’s all very well giving Tim and John Co-Producer credits for their efforts but I cannot Write/Direct/Produce, I’ll die! My problem with this realisation is that nobody at Uni wants to be a producer, for some unknown reason producer isn’t the sort after profession that direction or writing or even director of photography is. I shouldn’t complain really, I have no desire whatsoever to be a Producer, I’m an artist darling! Anyway I have something up my sleeve and will elaborate in due course if anything comes of it.

So during our SU session we discuss everything from location hunting to the use of sets for certain set-ups and how to gain a little more cash for the venture. It has been a valuable session and has put stuff in perspective a great deal. We’re planning to arrange for Harry’s brother Tom, incidentally a former barman at our SU bar, to produce t-shirt designs and have them printed by the new year, for sale to the public and crew exclusives to show off in lol Teaser posters are also on their way and I’ll let you know as soon as I have more news. Well this is enough guff from me, night folks.

Love,

K

An update on our filmic fun

Hi folks,
This is my first blog of a very long time and it's starting to become embarrassing the infrequency of my blogging exploits. I do truly, honestly, plan to blog once a day from now on but that may well be a shallow promise. I have a remarkable amount of shit going on at the moment and although Foreign Bodies is a huge part of that it’s also the Production and Development side of things that get my attention first.

So what can I tell you about that’s been going on recently? Well the script is still under review, we have it in with various trusted parties, who are reading and evaluating it for us and have been providing some wonderful feedback, really constructive, positive stuff that’s enabling us to move forward and make it even better. In fact I have a meeting this afternoon with young Mr. John Taylor where we’re going to thrash out some more changes to the narrative.

Next, I’ve been getting quotes for equipment, some at crazy stupid prices and some at pretty good rates actually. I’ll keep you posted on that because we still don’t 100% know what format we’re going to shoot in. I was encouraged, over the weekend, to plump for 35mm and bite the bullet, however that’s news for another blog.

Thanks to Mark, our illustrious designer, the campaign to get folks interested in working on set of Foreign Bodies has got off to a great start. Tico, my field chair, distributed an email inviting any students that are interested in being involved with the project to check out this webpage for more information. We’ve had a slow, if positive response to that email. It isn’t to be expected to get a deluge of responses from the student community because they’re so bloody apathetic.

Anywho, things are ticking over very nicely, I plan to start Video Blogging in the next couple of weeks which will be a treat for you all(!) and there’s also going to be a meeting of everyone who has expressed an interest in the project at some point in the coming weeks here in Cheltenham. I will keep everyone up-to-date with the specific times and places etc. so that we get maximum turn out. It’ll probably take the form of a little bit of waffle from me, followed by some kinda Q&A with John and I so the folks who are dedicating the precious time to our project can grill us on the ins and outs of our plans.

Okay well that’s enough from me for now.

K