Friday 31 July 2009

Short Sold!

Well hopefully :-)

Following a script call on Mandy.com - a producer rang me yesterday about So Beautiful - a short I wrote a couple of years ago and seems keen to do it.  It was written as a commissioned piece but the original producer didn't like that script so I started again from scratch and wrote him something he did like.

It was a strange commission as I had to do a modern version of a Shropshire folk tale called Wild Edric -  something that wouldn't normally be what I'd go for even though my range goes from children's animation i.e.  Scampenstein all the way through to gritty social realism i.e. Paper Aeroplane via horror, sitcom etc etc.

Anyway hopefully I now have the chance to sell the original story which bears out the advice Tony Jordan gave at the Screenwriters Festival last year about putting things in draws and waiting for the right opportunity to come along to dust them down and send them off.

Short Sold!

Well hopefully :-)

Following a script call on Mandy.com - a producer rang me yesterday about So Beautiful - a short I wrote a couple of years ago and seems keen to do it.  It was written as a commissioned piece but the original producer didn't like that script so I started again from scratch and wrote him something he did like.

It was a strange commission as I had to do a modern version of a Shropshire folk tale called Wild Edric -  something that wouldn't normally be what I'd go for even though my range goes from children's animation i.e.  Scampenstein all the way through to gritty social realism i.e. Paper Aeroplane via horror, sitcom etc etc.

Anyway hopefully I now have the chance to sell the original story which bears out the advice Tony Jordan gave at the Screenwriters Festival last year about putting things in draws and waiting for the right opportunity to come along to dust them down and send them off.

Sunday 12 July 2009

Paper Aeroplane Crash!

Not really - its only a postponement!

Myself and actor/producer Kriss Dosanjh's ambitious plan to shoot a micro-budget feature was a little bit too ambitious. The script is nowhere near where I would want it to be for my directorial feature debut so we have decided to postpone.

Thankfully most of the key cast and crew who were on board the project have already indicated that they still want to do it. This means that with more time to develop the script and pre-produce/audition/fundraise its actually looking like a better prospect for making a great film in the spring.

Will keep you all informed via this blog and the Facebook group.

TAFN

Brendan

Paper Aeroplane Crash!

Not really - its only a postponement!

Myself and actor/producer Kriss Dosanjh's ambitious plan to shoot a micro-budget feature was a little bit too ambitious. The script is nowhere near where I would want it to be for my directorial feature debut so we have decided to postpone.

Thankfully most of the key cast and crew who were on board the project have already indicated that they still want to do it. This means that with more time to develop the script and pre-produce/audition/fundraise its actually looking like a better prospect for making a great film in the spring.

Will keep you all informed via this blog and the Facebook group.

TAFN

Brendan