A world of collaboration - my adventures

Sorry that My past posts have been rather sparse in their content. I'm hoping to become more proactive in blogging as allot is happening this year so I will be posting more than once a month LOL

Anyways, on with the post. Just as a side note, the end of 2008 was just crazy, from October onwards I have been all over the place not to mention the IWM student film festival fun. So in the past three months I have made plans for three feature length productions (writing, designing and acting as producer) The ball is going to start rolling come February on all three at the same time and I'm ready! But these three productions all stand on their own in their complexity and message.

With a residential Guerilla Film-making course up at Ambleside at the end of October has yield new collaborations with young people in the North West of England (they are like rooster teeth up here!) no longer can I sit on my ass thinking up cool ideas, I have to keep up now which is really great!

My own personal film project hasn't launched as I have a lack of confidence, yes... It's true. I have had to many ideas to try and keep up in the air is near impossible but with new collaboration comes a renewed desire to visit old notes, scribbles, scripts and even old tests from college. All these ideas for little things and being boiled and reduced down into a thick soup of greatness, pure flavor! no filler! don't think thats how it goes, who cares IT SOUNDS GOOD AS I TYPE xD



So 2009 is shaping up to be a good looking year with equal parts success and failures (I'm a pessimist when no one is looking)

Keep watching!

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A thousand Directions at once

Funny how things happen in my life, for months nothing interesting happens then I'm doing 50 jobs at once...

Ok, so I'm exaggerating a bit, but this month is going to be crazy. First of all I've been helping out on a Gurilla film-making course last month and this which has been a bit of a thrown in the deep end affair and a steep learning curve on education and motivation of other people *I'm just used to talking to myself xS* but it's been fun!

Next, I edited a video for the Imperial War Museum's Student Film Festival, which I got though! so on Tuesday the 18th I will be in London so that should be fun.

Plus I've my own projects that I'm working on so I want to keep those in the air. I've filmed a music video on Wednesday and now I'm editing that (looks good!) and I've two ideas floating in my brain with provisional outlines on paper. So I want to get those down quickly as the beginning of 09 I will be getting some work with a production company near where I am so that is going to be awesome!!!

I have also started the nasty habit if going though podcasts that have been in my iTunes for the past three years (once they were invented) so that is fun and distracting...

So yeah, the year two thousand and nine is really going to be MAD and fun!!!

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Biography of myself to this point

So over the past couple of years, I've been making films and it's now a major part of my life now. while updating my online profiles I decided to write a little bio of how I came to be who I am now. So enjoy this little glimpse into my past life.

I've lived a somewhat interesting life to this point, here is a snippet...

Born in the Lake District of the UK, I've lived in the country all my life, son to a pair of optometrists and so didn't wish to go into that line of work. Originally I wanted to help people, only I didn't have great social skillz, but I was technically minded so I wanted for a long time to become a mechanic. After determining that I didn't want to work on other people’s cars for the rest of my life, I decided that creativity was the thing for me.

Since 1995, after seeing Toy Story in the cinema (one the most important points in my entire life) I wanted to become a film maker, but being and autistic child I couldn't articulate this idea to the degree that I really needed to. We did have a Hi8 camcorder, but this didn't work out for me as I didn't know how to tell stories yet using the camera. I could take pretty pictures, I just didn't know how to put them together. Gradually over the years, I would go though many computers, but I wanted to make films and it wouldn't be until 2004 that I could get what I wanted. After giving up with wanting to be a mechanic, I Joined a Film & TV course at Lancaster & Morecambe in late 2004 and I got my first Mac and from then on I was set.

Making films is such a large part of my life now. I wouldn't be able to tell you what I would have done without making films, it's such a rich a power entity that it's helped me become the person I am today. All I can say is I love making films and I thank everyone who listens to me and cases about me, because without those people I couldn't be who I am.

This is only a part of my previous life, but I didn't want to bore you xD

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