The Film That Dyed Red or Trouble With Commitment

You may have followed my dribblings on Twitter recently about the film I am (supposedly) making with and old college friend of mine and how it isn’t going too well. Last night he told me that one of the leads had dyed her hair red and put on a stone.

I nearly pissed myself when the director told me that. I told him to use semi pros on a no pay basis, but his list of ‘friends who could’ is quite extensive so I left him to it. It only goes to show you that people aren’t committed to anything unless money is involved or at least a ‘need’ to be involved that out ways the ‘want’ to be involved in the first place. By that I mean if an actor wants to have a showreel they at least have to make some stuff to put on it and there lies the ‘need’ rather than the ‘want’.  If you only want something you can walk away, if you need it then you have to make a real commitment. 

So we’ve decided that if the actors can’t be committed to filming in January then we will postpone the shot until the spring when the weather will be better and all red dye might have grown out.   

Time For An Update...

Let’s get down to it... we have been f*cking lazy, it’s true and I am not going to sugar coat it or make excuses. We have, in fact, made nothing.

Having said that there is a strong possibility that the New Year will allow for some video work to start happening. I think the first and easiest thing we are going to produce is a feature called ‘The World According To Tag’.  This would have happened sooner if I hadn’t come in to antiquated PC problems and none compatible HD support for everything to do with my PC. Did that sound like an excuse? 

I didn’t realise how cold it was going to be in my shed. So cold in fact that the camera stopped working properly, not to mention that I would have frozen to death by now.

One thing I have come to realise is that keeping it simple is the only way to go. If you want to make you tube videos you have to keep it simple. Why waste your time and probably money on over elaborate videos, when there’s no need?

So from the New Year ‘TWATT’ will be launched. I’m not going to say too much about it here, yet, but it should be fun.

Once again, sorry for being f*cking useless.