I wrote a short film in October 2009 which was directed by my friend Liam Shanagher in November 2009 and January 2010. I’ve learnt many lessons from this experience, first and foremost – a short film should NOT be eighteen pages long. ‘Block’, then, is a “short” horror film about an office worker with an...
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Back in the summer of 2009, I helped film Gordon Bennett, a short film made in an Alan Bennett-Talking-Heads-style. It was filmed at Lea Hurst in Glazebury, Warrington and was, basically, really good fun. We were a crew of four with one main actor in a location so random I can’t begin to describe the...
This is the full trailer for the upcoming Disney 3D IMAX blockbuster, Tron Legacy. I saw Avatar for the second time this past weekend and although it didn’t sweep the Oscars, I think it’s made enough buck for Jim Cameron to be a very happy man indeed. An unpleasant side effect of Avatar’s phenomenal...
On March 1st 2010, my niece, Ria, turned five years old. I escaped the doom and gloom of Manchester to visit Sittingbourne, some might say a unique English town. I took the following photographs with my Nikon D700 and my nifty fifty (50mm f/1.4 lens). Photographing a family event such as this is a mixed...