International short films movement.
Every Sunday, 07.30pm, Proud Camden, The Horse Hospital, Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, Camden Town.
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-come along this Sunday if you are making/interested in film. there is music, drinking and lots of networking opportunities.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
The Film
In September I started a Screenwriting course at London's MET Film School. Set in the historic Ealing Studios, there is no place more packed with atmosphere in which to study film. But anyway, MET Film plug aside...I started this course. I had great excitement going into it because I was undertaking something that I knew I had a passion for - if not a passion that formed many parts of a fragmented, slightly incoherent mix of passions that all steer me towards Film. Hopefully this course would be a good place to start the search for clarity and direction.
The course convenes every other Saturday and initially involved a group of very reserved, cool individuals who had to be coaxed out of their shells a little to start sharing their film ideas. It's been a brilliant experience so far, we study short films in minute detail and it is incredible how much effort and consideration is put into a frame in order to add to the overall message of the story. I am opening my eyes to the wonder of film as well as the frustrating fact that screenwriting is not a straight-forward affair. You take two steps forward with a script and then either a step back or a collision with a brick wall - that nightmare metaphor that plagues all writers. The problem with a screenplay though is that you don't have the freedom to explain away an emotion or an encounter - obviosuly it has to be shown through pictures and dialogue and this is a lot harder than you would think.
I am on a meandering path with my script and due to time constraints I find myself maddly scribbling things down while on juddery London buses. But it is a start, and I am learning. I am learning how to structure not only my screenplay but also the short film that I want to write, direct, film and produce in the new year - all grand plans considering my full time job. Better get back to it.
The course convenes every other Saturday and initially involved a group of very reserved, cool individuals who had to be coaxed out of their shells a little to start sharing their film ideas. It's been a brilliant experience so far, we study short films in minute detail and it is incredible how much effort and consideration is put into a frame in order to add to the overall message of the story. I am opening my eyes to the wonder of film as well as the frustrating fact that screenwriting is not a straight-forward affair. You take two steps forward with a script and then either a step back or a collision with a brick wall - that nightmare metaphor that plagues all writers. The problem with a screenplay though is that you don't have the freedom to explain away an emotion or an encounter - obviosuly it has to be shown through pictures and dialogue and this is a lot harder than you would think.
I am on a meandering path with my script and due to time constraints I find myself maddly scribbling things down while on juddery London buses. But it is a start, and I am learning. I am learning how to structure not only my screenplay but also the short film that I want to write, direct, film and produce in the new year - all grand plans considering my full time job. Better get back to it.
Pubs, Grub and Films Noirs
I went to Herne Hill last night to visit an old friend who I haven't seen in 5 years and we managed to pick up pretty much where we left off. Apparently I haven't aged but I know i've got fatter.
Herne Hill is nice, it lies around the delightful Brockwell Park which boasts a lovely lido for those intermittent summer days as well as a manor house atop a hill - probably Herne Hill. There are nice pubs in the area too - old victorian saloons brought into the urban trendy yet unpretentious 21st century styles. They are the kind of pubs where people sit alone by a fire reading a book and sipping a cider. My kind of pub.
Tonight I am going to a friend's in Vauxhall to be cooked chicken casserole and watch Jean Pierre Melville films, my earthy rioja should compliment this all as a real treat :-)
Herne Hill is nice, it lies around the delightful Brockwell Park which boasts a lovely lido for those intermittent summer days as well as a manor house atop a hill - probably Herne Hill. There are nice pubs in the area too - old victorian saloons brought into the urban trendy yet unpretentious 21st century styles. They are the kind of pubs where people sit alone by a fire reading a book and sipping a cider. My kind of pub.
Tonight I am going to a friend's in Vauxhall to be cooked chicken casserole and watch Jean Pierre Melville films, my earthy rioja should compliment this all as a real treat :-)
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