With Saturday's washout it was a given that we weren't going to get all the footage needed this weekend but with another early start yesterday we pushed on regardless. BTW - fairly graphic SFX shot follows behind cut so may be NSFW!

Actually we might have been able to rattle through everything we actually needed but as director Tom  was purposefully ( Read more... )

You can't go far wrong scheduling an outdoor film for the middle of June. Or can you? Turns out that the weather gods are fickle...

I make a point of never getting up before six on a work day - if the distance I need to travel is more than about three hours away I'll stay over the night before. It was therefore a little strange getting up at 5.30am ( Read more... )

In case anyone is interested in what our gang is getting up to in Norwich we've done another newsletter.

Full weekend of filming ahead - apparently an 8am start means being on site for 7. Both days. The things I volunteer for...

Just watched the latest Dr Who episode ("Blink") and have to agree with
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Returned yesterday from a week and a half's burn around North-West France... Details follow behind a cut for the benefit of those not interested in "what we did on our holidays"...

On Friday we set off to Dover, leaving Lauren's Mum Ross in charge of the house and the cats. A clear run to the Channel Tunnel was spoiled somewhat when I picked the ( Read more... )

On Wednesday I went with my brother to the Drury Lane Theatre for the opening night of Lord of the Rings (The Musical). Herein lie my thoughts...

The theatre was unsurprisingly packed. An intertwined branch motif surrounded the stage and extended along the walls well into the auditorium which looked very cool. The stage itself was mostly hidden by a ( Read more... )

Now of course that's got me distracted from actually working and I've dug this up as well (with apologies to non-Firefly fans and those who are not four months behind on their Whedon/Fillian news :) )

Considering that a vocal and active fanbase made Serenity the number one film as voted for in Film 2005 I'm surprised that the editor of SFX magazine was surprised by this result...

Not that I'm disagreeing with it - quite the opposite :)

http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?cat=14

...in case anyone hadn't seen it already :)

Fun 'n games ensued last Saturday as Liz and I had people over to their place to celebrate our conjoined birthday (always nice to know someone who is always two years older than you on your birthday :) ) And a fine shindig it was to, with special mention to the Do You Worship Cthulhu? game which was a gift from JB.

Basically a rip off of the classic ( Read more... )