tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60329162020-02-29T07:38:13.260+00:00Nothing Travels Faster Than Bad NewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032916.post-1157201606269229792006-09-02T13:52:00.000+01:002006-09-02T13:53:26.286+01:00

Feel free to post comments and ratings on the film's page.

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Can I say I'm done now?Hopefully, this last weekend was the last weekend spent on 'Nothing Travels Faster Than Bad News'. Yes, the film is done and has been done a while, but I still had the DVD to finish off.Over the Bank Holiday weekend I produced 'Making Bad News', a combination of an interview Suw and I shot last year (albeit edited down from 40 minutes to 5) and outtakes from principal

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Suw has managed to set up a BitTorrent for a 125MB Windows Media version of 'Nothing Travels Faster Than Bad News'. Find further details here.

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...is relatively relaxing. I spent last night sitting at my computer trying to output the film in a compressed format for the internub. This involved fiddling with a few settings, clicking a button and then waiting twenty minutes for a render that is then too big / too small / too grainy / too silent*.The Apple Lossless audio codec almost amused me by losing the entire audio track every time I

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Ish.The final cut is locked. The film will premiere on Friday. Everything now is just removing lint..

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But this is the director's cut post. As opposed to the theatrical cut, which I didn't make quite as good as I absolutely could have done so I had a definitive version to put on the DVD.1. New Opening Music2. Constant background hiss throughout opening scene3. Balance music and dialogue4. "I'll do it now while I remember" instead of "better do it now while I remember"?5. Redo dialing Cass and

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It's been a while since I did a proper post on the progress of the film and since there has been some progress of late, I thought I'd do one now.Yesterday was a good example of why post-production on the film has taken so long. The morning and some of the afternoon was spent doing nothing at all on the film, with me playing World of Warcraft instead. When I finally tore myself away from that, I

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Bad News 

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Just had a look at the entry requirements for the Internet Movie Database. Looks like the best way we're going to get Nothing Travels Faster Than Bad News on there is to be accepted by a selective film festival (ie. one that doesn't blindly accept all submissions). Well, I'm aiming high by targetting the Edinburgh International Film Festival for the premiere, so if we get in there (which, to be

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Well, it's been a while since I posted here, though I have been putting sporadic updates about the film up at my other blog. The current state of play is this: The first trailer is out. You can go see it via this link. Any comments appreciated. Of course, just because a trailer's been done, it doesn't mean the film's ready yet. It's currently 90% edited together, with the main feature just

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Okay, a quick update on the state of play with 'Nothing Travels Faster Than Bad News': First up, we've decided to re-shoot everything we shot down in London - Francine's scenes. The footage wasn't bad, but lacking developed storyboards on set meant that in the editing room I found myself looking at every shot thinking it was the wrong shot. This should have been a close-up, that should have been

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Well, Saturday was spent shooting in London at my friend Svetlana's flat. We had Jen playing Francine, Vince playing Tyler and me as Lindsay. On the whole, my lasting memories of the day are just how much fun it was, and how much I enjoyed wielding a camera. I used to love stills photography, until I got too broke to get the film developed. Even just photographing bands gear at gigs was great,

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  I realised I haven't posted in a while having become enamoured with my own blog elsewhere. However, I can confirm that we have now cast all the principal parts in the short film. I'll post up details and biographies shortly.   I'm also currently in the process of securing the last of the major locations for the short film and with filming imminent, that's a really good thing.

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Well, it's not all that much of a conundrum, but you'll have to excuse me my choice of words - I currently find unnecessary use of alliteration an amusing novelty. If it was a conundrum it's rapidly becoming less of one. Last night I got an email from one of the actresses I'd approached saying a house move and her wedding precluded her taking part in the film, putting her alongside the two

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I made a resolution today to try and set some hours of the weekend aside for actual work. Seeing as I manage to get things done during the hours of 8am and 5pm during the week when the things to be done are things I struggle to find enthusiasm for, I figured adopting a similar ethic for my days off might throw off that idleness I've been cultivating recently. I started drawing storyboards at

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Scene 16-iii - Tyler, with phone, running past a couple of harridans.

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Okay, okay, I've finally got something done. Apart from tweaking the script again (and adding a complicated to realise coda that, provided I can figure out how to do it, will provide another excuse for internet reviewers to say 'great end credits, shame about the film') I have started sketching out some of the storyboards. I don't have a scanner at the moment so I had to make do with using my

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It's far too light in the mornings at the moment. Roll over in bed to face the window and the inconsiderate brightness of another Summer day burns through closed eyelids to conduct a strenuous argument with the hind-brain in order to convince it that it is time to get up and get the serotonin pumping, despite all the physiological evidence to the contrary which is dismissed in favour of a

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Right, after three weeks abroad in Australia I am now back in the UK and ... well, I'd like to say full of enthusiasm for writing and filmmaking, but I'm still in the grip of the lethargy that took hold of me around about November 2002. It's scary to think I actually started writing my latest book way back in July 2002 and after four months of pretty solid writing I've relegated it to dribs and

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Draft number 9 has arrived! Oops, breathed on it. That probably turns it into draft number 10.

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After sending off a 19-page document of design suggestions for Lionhead's upcoming 'The Movies' computer game (which, admittedly, was exactly the same document I sent to Edward Grabowski with suggestions for a sequel to his Movie Studio Boss game), I churned out draft number nine of Nothing Travels Faster Than Bad News. I shall now make an aside where I explain the numbering methodology I use

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The UN resolution has been deferred yet again, but the Alpha Centauran Confederacy are now locked in a bloody and bitter war with the Zeta Reticuli Housing Association over the line with the formerly peaceful race of the Quons looking likely to enter the fray any day now (their religious beliefs such that they are actually claiming the line does not in fact exist at all and all this conflict over

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As the world is now aware, it all started inconspicuously enough. A conversation in a pub on Saturday 17th April does not usually lead to events that have global repercussions. Apart from when Dame Vera Lynn bet Adolf Hitler he couldn't invade Poland of course. And when Michelangelo dissed Leonardo Da Vinci's taste in snack food setting off a chain events that would culminate in both the

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Jogger's nipple, the joy of. I think I need a sports bra.

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You know the thing I found most surprising thing about Saturday's meeting? It was the 'head of the table' effect. I had positioned myself at the head of the table in the beer garden in which we were holding our meeting, but I didn't really notice the effect until I had occasion to point at something. And I used my thumb. I never use my thumb to point at things. It lacks the pointing precision

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