My Chariot of Snails

My Chariot of Snails

An image from the Pre-visual shoot Day to Night conversion

I'm travelin atop a chariot pulled by a team of snails. This is not a metaphor for my crew but just a general observation of the production so far. With every sluggish tug a little more of my by-polar depressive other self bubbles to the surface. My draining bank account has become my ticking clock and its ticking like it needs a few less batteries.

But I have come to accept this most brutal truth. I am a nobody in this industry. I dived in the deep end thinking to make friends with cats chasing each other around the pool, but instead I received the awkward glances and cold shoulders of those who don't understand how a grown man can wear speedos at a public venue. i was out of my depth and out of my understanding. I've been in the fast track class of wizening since the first days of announcing the production and here is where I now stand.

Almost three weeks since project commencement I am only just filling the final positions on the crew. I am still without a Soundy and minor assisting roles like Best Boy and Boom Swinger. My first AD has just disappeared to South Australia for a week and a half, my Gaffer for two. My DOP is yet to give me any rough storyboards and so I continue to sketch them myself and my first round of auditions for the roles of Michael, Paul and Un-dead Claire proved to be unfruitful.

But I re-eco the words of the great Calvin Coolidge   'Persistence and determination' 


So long as I continue to strive onwards I will continue onwards, and so long as I continue onwards this film will come to fruition. 


This is my test, and I will not fail.


Stay tuned readers and read-ets 

Nicholas

The Potency of Success

Dearest readers.
The %100 percent New Zealand competition did not bare the fruits I had deeply hoped for yet I bowed humbly to the five most worthy selections of the resulting One thousand and eighty film makers who submitted entries. but in every failure there is new opportunity and if I may quote a portion of the words once spoken by an old US President (Calvin Coolidge):

"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

You cannot fail if you never give up, and so I continue to strive forward, with this motto in mind.

There is a new project in the works, something I began before, but placed on the back burner during my work on the Peter Jackson submission. Now I'm reviving it (quite literally) and it has arisen even more glorious than before.

Lady and Gents, it is my great pleasure to introduce to you my new Film and first project of 2010

Life Under Shadow

There is not much I can tell you about this project just yet as it is only in the first week of Pre-production, but I will leave you with some pre-development tasties to keep you in the area until the oven really starts cooking and I can begin to slip you larger pieces of the production pie.

Synopsis -

Life Under Shadow is a film about growing up. Two friends Michael and Paul are driving home late a night from a friends wedding in the countryside. The wedding has been a ‘slap in the face’ to both men who are beginning to realise that their days of careless youth are soon to leave them. They quickly find themselves in contention with each other over their different desires for the future of their own lives. Little do they know their night will take them on an adventure, an adventure they might not live through at all.

AND

These are some mock story boards in the fashion of a comic strip, that I have been scribbling for my Director of Pornography Garth Austin, look at them close enough and you'll find a nice little give away or two as too what has imperilled our two heroes:

Keep checking in as I inscribe you through the production process.

Nicholas x