Well technically that's not ENTIRELY true, I have been doing blogs for my work at
Ravensbourne (the university I go to, for those who don't know). Uni work has pretty much been taking up most of my time, but that's not to say I haven't tried to keep working on some film ideas.
The scripts I've written have been either undergoing some major overhauls (more on that later) or have been expanded and worked on in my spare time. I've met some very talented and skilled people at
Ravensbourne so if they wanted to help me make these films I'll be able to actually start production on them soon. I'll also try to get hold of some actors too as I've been given some very useful casting websites.
I've had to make a 2 and a half minute "observational documentary" for one of my uni projects recently, so I'll try putting that up online soon. I'm just trying to go over some of the things that were criticised when I showed it to my class at the moment (although it did seem to be well received overall). I chose to make a film about free running and wanted to get some first person perspectives from the free runners using my
GoPro camera and head attachment (I wanted an effect along the lines of the
Mirror's Edge game), I spliced this footage in with some third person footage shot on my
Canon DSLR camera.
Basically this project also doubled up as an experiment for another film I wanted to make. I wanted to experiment with shooting free running & parkour as it is an element that's cropped up in some chase scenes for one of the films. I also wanted to see how well the first person footage would work to see if I could cut it into the chase scenes without it feeling too disorienting. I was very pleased with how the footage came out so expect to see some parkour style chases in one of my future films.
As I previously mentioned, one of the scripts is undergoing a major overhaul. I had the idea today to make the full version of
Corrupted into a neo-noir set in 21st century London, rather than the 1930/1940s set noir that I'd originally planned. Obviously some small changes have been made due to obvious changes to the society and equipment we have today compared to in the 1930s, but the main essence of the story and the characters remain the same. Another reason for doing this is for convenience's sake really, as it is much harder to film something in a time period that we're not living in. However, as I said, I re-read the full script and realised that the character types that are present in the script are all present in today's society too.
Hopefully I should get the free running piece online soon and will get cracking with the update of
Corrupted in the mean time along with a secret agent movie (which is currently untitled) that I've been writing for a while.
Glenn
