Hello Bozo!

When you engage in a project like this, you have to lead in order to get the project finished but make no mistake, you maybe the director, but you're only as good as your crew! So thank you to all the people who made Deadly Illusions happen. I don't hate my first movie even when I'm suppose to! I'm pleased with the feedback after all when a complete stranger on Vimeo simply says they enjoyed it, I think that's great! So to sum it all up right or wrong here are some of the things I took away f

With only six weeks to the premier which had been announced before we started shooting, I had lots to do but consoled myself that I had been told that a month was enough time to edit a short movie. Then the technical issues reared their ugly head - after a week of trying to look at the Maxtor portable hard disk with the footage on, I had remembered that windows doesn't read a FAT32 file partitions. This meant that I needed an Apple Mac or find a program to read the Mac formatted data which I

We got to the theatre and unloaded loads of kit an props and began! One of the first problems we hit on the day was my inexperience, the first scene we shot was number two in the script, which was the magician and assistant talking face to face. Hey! I thought we'll knock this out in an hour! Not a chance!! My DP told me we needed to do wide shots for establishing and cut aways. I was like "Why?" To me, camera one was over the shoulder of the magician and camera two was over the assistants sh