Hello there, I'm Simon.
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Well, hello to you, [Insert name here]
Welcome to my new blog. You won't find the old ones I had because they were full of useless musings and I deleted them ages ago. So here is a new one.
Some years ago, I set out to write and produce an ultra low-budget, but ultra good, film, probably to put up in parts on the internet for free. Things took a while. I had a script in 2007, and revised again in 2008. But no cast. Cast in this case being people good enough and right enough for the parts, but also with incredible levels of kindness and patience to do everything I needed for free, whenever it could be done.
Did I mention I was doing everything else on the film myself and I have almost no money to put into it? Equipment, yes, money, nada.
Anyway, I had to wait a while, but in the summer of 2010, the film was shot. Mostly. Another few days of shooting, and a small amount of reshooting - perhaps four days at most - were needed. And still are. I hope to get them done in the next two months. I'll be using this blog to talk about the process of writing, waiting, rewriting, waiting, casting, shooting, waiting and (hopefully) concluding shooting, and then taking you - yes, YOU - through the post-production of the film until it's ready to stream to whoever's interested in it.
And because that will probably be quite dry, I'll be talking about other films, old and new (but probably old for a while as life circumstances have meant I'm a bit behind on new films at the moment) in between the making-of bits.
I hope some of you out there will be along for the ride.
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