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Off-topic Rants
At long last, we finally got around to putting together our very first video blog! We have to be honest – the camera work is pretty awful, as is the audio, and we did notice those little lines at the start of the video… however! The important thing is that we got it out there to you, and you can be rest assured that we’re spending all our time and energy on getting the feature film up and running! That said though, we have certainly already learned from our mistakes, so episode two will certainly be a lot slicker… Stay tuned!
I had two maths teachers when I was at high school. One was frighteningly similar to a certain Hannibal Lectar and used to hang a mirror on the black/white board so he could see people screwing around behind him and the other was a borderline alcoholic who once drew us a diagram on how to grow our own doob plant because we weren’t listening to what he was saying.
A question I often get asked about script writing, film making, acting is – Where do I start? How do I start? What’s a good place to start? My answer is always invariably… at the beginning. Now that doesn’t have to be a conventional beginning. Your beginning could be someone else’s end. Your end, someone’s mid point. And so on & so forth until I have confused you so much, you forget what the question was.
Written by Guest Blogger on 23rd September 2010 Thank God for new technology, right? Now with the power of a phone in the palm of my hand I can take pictures of my script, upload them to our wonderful blog, and then if you have our iPhone app thingy you can see it straight away on yours! Isn’t this marvelous!
LateNite Films It gives me great pleasure to announce that we officially have a new logo for LateNite Films (as we have also decided to write “LateNite Films” instead of “latenite films” as a tribute to Peter Jackson’s WingNet Films). LateNite Films We have been trying to come up with a new logo that really reflects what we stand for, for months now. We tried doing it ourselves – but just never really came up with anything solid. After officially giving up, we decided to post something on Twitter. Within minutes, we suddenly started receiving emails, Facebook messages and Twitter DMs and Replies from all over the world. After looking through all the messages, we eventually came across a reply from an amazingly talented UK-based Graphic Designer René Ellis. She had a really solid range of work behind her – but more importantly, even though we only communicated via email and Twitter, I must say, she was an absolute joy to work with. She was fast, incredibly inspiring and creative, and made the whole process a lot of fun, as we tried out various styles and formatting until we came up with something we actually all agreed on. If you ever need a Graphic Designer for any project – I highly recommend getting in touch with her! You might as well add her on Twitter – just for future reference!
LateNite Films Reel 2010 We have decided to put our latest August 2010 Reel online for everybody to see! Normally, we only share the reel with potential clients and friends via DVDs, but this time round, we’re going the polar opposite and are releasing it for all to see on YouTube.
So we are about to head into Draft 9 territory which is a bit of a scary thought. Scary mainly because we have taken (when I say we I mean mostly Al) a 135 page MONSTER script and managed to get it to a slightly less daunting length of 90-100 pages. Something that I would have said was near impossible when I first read the 7th Draft!!!
I was in Bali over the last week and was reading Peter Jackson’s biography and one thing became evident to me. There is a single reason why that man succeeded, in not only becoming a brilliant film maker, but also making people stand up and take notice of his homeland.
If we step back in time to 2007, Alistair Marks was just your average film student studying towards a Bachelor of Film & Television at Swinburne University. However, unlike a lot of young up-and-coming filmmakers, he decided that instead of just putting together a short film that has a very limited chance of actually going somewhere, he would write a full length feature film script, and then film the opening sequence and submit it to festivals. As it turns out, Alistair was on the right track, as the script attracted a great collection of actors and crew, and put him in a great place to actually get the feature film from words on a page to big bangs on the big screen!
It’s with great pleasure and excitement that I welcome you to the all new SHOTGUN! behind the scenes blog. For those of you that have been following some of the work we’ve done at LateNite Films over the years, you’ll know that we’re all a bit geeky (in a good way!) and enjoy making the most of the power of the Internet and social networking, but more importantly, we just honestly love the whole filmmaking process and really want to share any new knowledge we pick up along the way with other like-minded people.