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So it’s the start of another year and yet again I am resolving to Be More Organised. Will it finally happen? My main issue is Version Control. I’ve always been a bit lazy with computer organisation (Save to desktop? Check. Clear desktop into a new desktop folder of ‘Stuff’? Check.), and as my PhD drew to a close, it all went a bit wrong! I had files on my work PC, files on my home laptop, files…

The Merkwürdigliebe Randoms – First

Rosie:

Ah Mandrake…

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IndieBoogie.com – A New Website for Filmmakers

Attention film-makers! Do you hate pre-production? Struggle under mountains or notes and spreadsheets? Wish there was an easy way to organise it all but can’t afford fancy software? Introducing Indieboogie!!

Upload a script (.txt OR .pdf), have all the things you need automatically extracted (locations/cast etc) and available for use in shotlisting and scheduling!

Having trouble finding a…

I’ve decided my favourite style of cooking involves short busts of activity spread out over many hours… Patient cooking, which also let’s me do other things in between. Croissants fit the bill.

First day is dough making – frothing, mixing, squishing. I realise I have no dough hooks and use my fingers instead.

Enormous amounts of butter, flattened, cooled and folded carefully into the dough…

God I love Tri-X.

Bringing Holographic Apes to life, on a shoe-string

Some words from Danny on the next feature film Fighting Badgers are working on… and the joys of After Effects!

Bringing Holographic Apes to life, on a shoe-string.

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The Ipanema File… coming soon

An independently made feature film, shot in 3 weeks, on a budget of just over 3k, telling the story of Joseph Day, a detective for whom headaches are the least of his worries…

Coming to a London screen near you later this year.

www.FightingBadgers.com for more info

Under The Skin (Review)

Rosie:

I remember a friend lending me the book this was based on quite some time ago… fascinating story… excited to see it realised on the big screen!

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Highbrow and art-house cinema have spent a long time trying to find the balance between style and substance. A lot of them, it is safe to say, fall into the former; abandoning the depth of a story for…

25 days to go…

What is this mime doing in the magician’s office?

Second read-through for The Ipanema File last night and it’s still incredible to me what we have achieved in such a short time… and marginally terrifying how much we still have to do!

I have no fear tho – we have definitely lucked out with the people we have around us – fascinating to watch actors become their characters before our very eyes, and…