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I Know What You Want
Today I am mostly working on my 10 minute short script ‘What You Want’ – actually it might end up being called ‘I Know What You Want’ but that reminds me a bit too much of that whole ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ franchise so for now, it’s shortened. We were told last…
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Hombre
Writing today with the western ‘Hombre’ on – one of my favourite films. There’s only a handful of films I can watch time and time again but Paul Newman in ‘Hombre’ is one of them! Mind you, part of the attraction is the dialogue – it has glorious lines coming out its proverbial ears, and…
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Zombie Death Drive and other things
A posting on Miss Read’s board just reminded me of a conference on Gothic Science Fiction that’s happening next week so I had a closer look at the plan for the day. There’s some fascinating sounding speakers with topics including : • Paul Foster (University of Chester) ‘“Monsters Manufactured”: Monsters in H G Wells’s The…
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Capote
Capote – watched it – what an excellent, engrossing, disturbing, human film. Took me a while to get into Seymour Hoffman’s portrayal of Truman but geez what a performance! I haven’t read Capote’s book ‘In Cold Blood’ which is what the film is about, but it made me want to read it. In the film,…
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Gratuitous Who
Continuing the Doctor Who theme, its great to see the series back on BBC1. I couldn’t imagine another assistant after Rose, but Martha Jones looks like she’s going to fit right in. Maybe it was just me but I definitely detected a bit of chemistry between her and the Doctor, and that always bodes well…
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Life is stranger than a Benny Hill sketch
…sometimes anyway, yesterday I finally got my eyes tested. Been meaning to get round to it for ages and now Uni is off for a few weeks, got an appointment. I daren’t think how long it’s been since my last test but it seemed a lot more complicated than I remember, but all vaguely enjoyable…
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The Long Distance Screenwriter
Adrian Mead is coming to Edinburgh! ‘The Long Distance Screenwriter’ is a one-day event on the 9th June in Edinburgh from MeadKerr. I’ve heard SO many good things about Mead’s events both in Edinburgh and London, so I’ve bitten the bullet and signed up for this one – can’t wait! A few of my fellow…
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Radio Play’sThe Thing
I spent the weekend finishing off my application for Channel 4’s ‘Radio Play’s TheThing’ which is looking for 15 minute Radio Plays to workshop. I love radio drama and thought this would be a good place to get me started. Unfortunately and rather disappointingly, since yesterday no-one can actually send in their applications as the…
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it’s the socks or me
The other assignment finished and submitted was a premise and outline for our Short Script Workshop. Our tutor is really making us work – great to finally be getting down to our own scripts and ideas. Last week we had a useful workshop where we were only allowed to make negative comments about each other’s…
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how not to knit a hit
Currently having one of those weeks where you get 1 thing finished and there are still 3 others jostling to get dealt with next. I’m just having a temporary breather after submitting 2 assignments for the MA course. First was a proposal for an interactive game in our ‘Writing for Interactive Entertainment’ module. I’ve gone…
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