Category Archives: production update

It took a total of 5 hours to write, shoot and edit. The cost was a mere few dollars, the main expense bing a takeout meal for the family. The end product, a just-over-three minute short film in the style of ‘look who’s talking’ staring my own son, Lucas. It’s not the most amazing piece of art nor cinematically brilliant.Rather, it’s a simple and slightly amusing take on the life of the family’s youngest member. Half parody – half family diary, but something I am sure Lucas will look back on in later years with amusement.

What is all this for? The Onewhero film competition is running their first event in film-making. They have a very quaint theatre in their town centre (community would be a better word- Onewhero is far from being a town). The red carpet event is still 2 months away, but given that I was on holiday and the timing was right, I did the whole thing in an evening.

I can’t show the film here until after the first screening, but I’ll be sure to get photos from the screening as well as post the short the following day.

I found a new application for the ipad. It’s called Storyboards and costs a very affordable zero dollars. Well the basic app is free… you need to cough up nearly 30 dollars for the full application.

From the looks of things, the basic app seems to do the job fine and will be a perfect method of storyboarding any smaller productions we undertake.

I just had a play with it and started making some storyboards for The Bag.

The 48 hour film competition is up again. The problem however is both core members of the AWk team are sorely lacking in time. I am overloaded at work, and with a 3 month old son to distract me.

My partner in crime has a wee daughter (she was in our last film) and twins on the way. Things arent looking likely for a full on weekend of film-making this year.

This leaves me with the burning desire to make something, but it would need to be on a smaller scale. Planning and writing can occur online. Only casting and filming would require any great effort.

Projects? I have a near completed road short. A horror with a twist (i hope) and would only require two cast, camera, sound and director.  Five people will be a lot easier to co-ordinate than the twenty or so involved in our last effort.