A month has passed...

Hello again...

The whole project has lost a bit of momentum I am afraid. We have had a couple of rehersals since I last posted and well, they have been fairly eventful. Regrettably, I had to sack one of my actors! I think where I went wrong and this is definitely a trap for young players so if you are new to film making take note, when I initally wrote the script I wrote the characters with already in mind who I wanted to play the parts. When it came to auditions, I didn't have any! I just presumed they were perfect for the part and went head first into production. I now realise that this is the wrong thing to do. I will now always make my actors audition for a part. Since then I have cast my multi-talented editor and assistant director in the role made vacant by the initial sacking and it looks like things may be getting back on track.

Birth of Oblivion - First post...

Well this is the first blogg for my very first short film called - 'Birth of Oblivion'. I thought it would be interesting to document my personal journey through the process of trying to get this movie made. Birth of Oblivion or what I like to affectionately call BOO, is a very short script that I wrote last year while I was living in Edinburgh. There were several things that I wanted to achieve out of this exercise. One, I wanted to prove to myself I was capable of completing a script or story, no matter how Ill-conceived or poorly written. I've had dozens of ideas for stories and film scripts over the years but have never been motivated enough to finish them. Two, its a dream of mine to write and direct my own film. So anyway this is the Blogg I will use to write about the up and downs and the ins and outs of my experience making BOO.. Stay Tuned!