MY MOVIE ON THE BIG SCREEN!
It's been a long time coming...
Hello readers, new and old!
I’ve returned to showcase the incremental progress of my creative endeavours. If you like what I’m laying down, I’d love to hear about what’s working for you, so I can hone this baby.
Apolz for the extended gap in posts. It’s been a busy time working on various iterations of my movie. Movie you say?
CINEMA TEST SCREENING
I was very fortunate to be able to screen the latest cut of my feature film HARD EDGES to a small test audience last week. It’s still got a way to go in terms of sound design/mixing, vfx, but the edit itself seems to be closing in on a final version. I will KEEP GOING!
There was a time when I really thought my filmmaking had crashed and burned forever, so to be playing it back in the cinema where I used to work many moons ago, was a real honour.
NEW IDEA
The data from my first foray into printed medium has brought me to the conclusion that this is no way to run a railway! Fun as the experience was, if making comics is to be prolific I need a different approach.
To that end I’ve come up with something that will hopefully make for a good read online instead. I’ll try and make the artwork less laboured, put limits on the tools I’m allowed to use and focus on telling the story as quick as I can. It’s going to be about a paranormal investigator set in and around the desolate landscape of The Fens, where I live. Sort of Hellboy meets a Ruth Rendall mystery. I’ll keep you updated on developments, naturellement!
Not gonna lie I’ve barely touched this idea since it popped into my head at the start of the year, but that means very little. Take a ticket and get in line with all the other ideas, friend!
REMEMBERING TO REMEMBER
Last summer I started carrying a notebook and pen on my person AT ALL TIMES. This was after reading something that made me realise that when I don’t immediately capture information/ideas/instructions I’m likely to lose it into the ether. When I filled up my first pad, I devised to make a more custom book.
I find a blank notepad daunting and boring. So I thought if I combine lots of different sorts of paper, it would create a more enticing booklet. I’ll be damned, it works!
I found the process quite therapeutic! I hand stitch them so when it’s in your back pocket the staples don’t rip out.
If you have trouble keeping track of stuff like me, I highly recommend doing this! The book and pen only ever leave my pockets for me to use them (or if I change my trousers!) They’ve become an extension of my body!
I’ll keep prototyping the notebooks and perhaps offer them for sale in a future post!
Speaking of the Fens I highly recommend the audio drama series The Hotel by Daisy Johnson, set in said location. 15 women throughout history recounting different strange happenings on this soggy patch of land. It’s creepy.
And if that’s your bag you’d do well to get straight onto Voices In The Valley which is set up north and equally creepy.
I’ll leave you with some of the finished artwork from my comic;
That’s enough out of me. If you’d like to purchase my comic book “Don’t Eat The Pink Snow,” you can do that here. Do hit me up on Insta. Until next time;
Tschüssie!
Carl
