I started to write this post a couple of weeks ago but had to abandon anything that involved screens, monitors, text and just about anything that required looking. "Why is that Mark?" I'm glad you asked. Conjuntivitis. Have a look...
I spent two weeks looking like I should be running through the streets of London after Cillian Murphy. Not that I'd have been able to feckin' see him.
So my woes aside time for an update on what's happening, or at least what was happening a couple of weeks ago.
Well, 'Colleagues' is done and dusted. The last piece of the puzzle was the score supplied by I Phoenix's own Kevin Brew. We had an initial discussion about what it would be like and he suggested doing something all electronically with a bit of a Trent Rexnor-ey, Social Network-ey feel. At which point I realised that I was without any shadow of a doubt working with the right dude. And, my God, did he deliver! It's a really subtle simple piece but fits the tone of the film perfectly.
On the whole I am really proud of 'Colleagues'. As I said here before, it was originally intended as an experiment in how quickly I could turn a film out (not very quickly as it happens) but has become a film that, I think is far better than 'Little Things'. It just feels a little more sophisticated, and a little less like the product of some one who didn't know what he was doing.
So what next for 'Colleagues'? Honestly I don't know. Like with 'Little Things' I have tried to solicit the options of people who know what they're talking about. What I'd love them to say is "Looks a lot better and might be worth a punt sticking it into a smaller festival or a competition like Virgin Media Shorts" What I'd be happy with them saying is "Well done for doing another one. It's a bit better than 'Little Things' but you still have a long way to go". If that's the case then I put it up online and you lot can have a look and tell me what you think.
Here's a couple of stills from the film for your viewing pleasure
'Colleagues' isn't the only thing occupying my time these days. Still in the recruitment stage for a some one to pick up some of the producer duties for "I Don't Bite". There are some very promising candidates that I'll hopefully be meeting with in the coming weeks. I have a comedy script called "Austerity Measures" that I'm considering shooting in the summer and I've also written a script for the Welsh short film scheme "It's My Shout". The script is called 'Jelly Bean' and writing it was quite a cathartic process as it deals with a subject very close to my heart. In a nutshell it's the story of a teenage girl who gets pregnant and has a miscarriage. I strongly suspect that the heavy subject matter will prevent it from getting picked to go into production. Which is kinda sad because it's one of the things I'm most proud of writing and the nature of the production, with teen cast and locations like schools and hospitals, mean it's pretty unlikely I'd ever attempt to produce it myself. But you never know.
Another thing I've done is set up a tumblr. I want to keep this blog as focussed as I can on film productions so any other stuff that I want to talk about, I'll put over there. It'll be stuff like my reactions to films, books and the like. So from now on things like the picture of my diseased eye and tributes to David Kelly are likely to end up of there rather than here. It's still just beginning to evolve but check it out http://brocglic.tumblr.com/
Last thing I wanted to say was just to make mention of a fine Irish actor who died a couple of days ago. David Kelly. I don't normally do this sort of thing but I believe that David Kelly deserves to be an exception. For my non-paddy readers he was a jobbing character actor who despite being 82 was working right up until last year. He had small parts in things like 'The Italian Job', 'Fawlty Towers' and 'Stardust' and played Grandpa Joe in Tim Burton's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. For the Irish readers, I know you want to tell yourselves that you remember him from the excellent RTE adaptation of 'Strumpet City' or from the 1967 film of Joyce's 'Ulysses' but be honest, you remember Sylvie from 'Glenroe'!
Anyway R.I.P. David Kelly (1929 - 2012)
I spent two weeks looking like I should be running through the streets of London after Cillian Murphy. Not that I'd have been able to feckin' see him.
So my woes aside time for an update on what's happening, or at least what was happening a couple of weeks ago.
Well, 'Colleagues' is done and dusted. The last piece of the puzzle was the score supplied by I Phoenix's own Kevin Brew. We had an initial discussion about what it would be like and he suggested doing something all electronically with a bit of a Trent Rexnor-ey, Social Network-ey feel. At which point I realised that I was without any shadow of a doubt working with the right dude. And, my God, did he deliver! It's a really subtle simple piece but fits the tone of the film perfectly.
On the whole I am really proud of 'Colleagues'. As I said here before, it was originally intended as an experiment in how quickly I could turn a film out (not very quickly as it happens) but has become a film that, I think is far better than 'Little Things'. It just feels a little more sophisticated, and a little less like the product of some one who didn't know what he was doing.
So what next for 'Colleagues'? Honestly I don't know. Like with 'Little Things' I have tried to solicit the options of people who know what they're talking about. What I'd love them to say is "Looks a lot better and might be worth a punt sticking it into a smaller festival or a competition like Virgin Media Shorts" What I'd be happy with them saying is "Well done for doing another one. It's a bit better than 'Little Things' but you still have a long way to go". If that's the case then I put it up online and you lot can have a look and tell me what you think.
Here's a couple of stills from the film for your viewing pleasure
'Colleagues' isn't the only thing occupying my time these days. Still in the recruitment stage for a some one to pick up some of the producer duties for "I Don't Bite". There are some very promising candidates that I'll hopefully be meeting with in the coming weeks. I have a comedy script called "Austerity Measures" that I'm considering shooting in the summer and I've also written a script for the Welsh short film scheme "It's My Shout". The script is called 'Jelly Bean' and writing it was quite a cathartic process as it deals with a subject very close to my heart. In a nutshell it's the story of a teenage girl who gets pregnant and has a miscarriage. I strongly suspect that the heavy subject matter will prevent it from getting picked to go into production. Which is kinda sad because it's one of the things I'm most proud of writing and the nature of the production, with teen cast and locations like schools and hospitals, mean it's pretty unlikely I'd ever attempt to produce it myself. But you never know.
Another thing I've done is set up a tumblr. I want to keep this blog as focussed as I can on film productions so any other stuff that I want to talk about, I'll put over there. It'll be stuff like my reactions to films, books and the like. So from now on things like the picture of my diseased eye and tributes to David Kelly are likely to end up of there rather than here. It's still just beginning to evolve but check it out http://brocglic.tumblr.com/
Last thing I wanted to say was just to make mention of a fine Irish actor who died a couple of days ago. David Kelly. I don't normally do this sort of thing but I believe that David Kelly deserves to be an exception. For my non-paddy readers he was a jobbing character actor who despite being 82 was working right up until last year. He had small parts in things like 'The Italian Job', 'Fawlty Towers' and 'Stardust' and played Grandpa Joe in Tim Burton's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. For the Irish readers, I know you want to tell yourselves that you remember him from the excellent RTE adaptation of 'Strumpet City' or from the 1967 film of Joyce's 'Ulysses' but be honest, you remember Sylvie from 'Glenroe'!
Anyway R.I.P. David Kelly (1929 - 2012)
