Welcome, Martin Lejeune!

Music can seem a big obstacle for the not necessarily financially burdened filmmaker but I've never had a problem finding composers for my stuff, I guess I've been lucky.

There are a number of composers out there who will work for less than their usual fee if they find a project different or exciting, as with actors, VFX artists or anyone else giving their time. They enjoy what they do and want to see their names on good films.

I asked David… Continue

So, here I am running on about three hours sleep, holding a microphone below a man who is painted like a chocolate bar in a heavy metal wig as he barks orders at a battle fleet which is presumably somewhere behind the green screen we’re in front of.

Hang on. Let’s back up. After a day of travel, I’ve been sleeping on a sofa at the offices of Energia productions in Tampere, Finland. Not very much - mind you - due to the two hour time difference. Everyone’s been setting up equipment like it’s nin… Continue

So Josh over at Third Wave Films has been asking me for a while to join in his challenge to make a film in 90 minutes, now I'm rather against the idea for the most part. Partly because A: anything made in an hour and a half is bound to not be... the best it could be. and B: I could never out do Toilet Love. this, you may notice is a contradiction, but that's ok.

Josh was on the radio today, again as… Continue

I've been finding it really hard to just sit down and write, sounds stupid, and it probably is but for me writing is not the creation of the script but the act of recording the creation of the script,

Situations. characters and dialogue all need to bounce around my brain until their ready to form a coherent narrative and sometimes sitting and looking at a word processor doesn't make that happen any faster. Other times however, I just need to sit down and let it happen.

I came up with a great l… Continue

as I mentioned a while ago, I shot a short piece to test my HV30. It didn't make much sense but it did look very pretty. It's been on the back burner for a while but I've finally managed to get all the sound mix done and put it up online.

for the record there's not really any colour correcting done, just a few tweaks to the levels here and there and… Continue