Just over a week ago Jack Marshall and I (mostly Jack!) produced the final cut (if there is such a thing?) of my short A Question Of Content. It was a devil of a job to get an uncompressed Quick Time file of quality out of AVID, as for some reason the compressed mpegs (used to make DVD VOB files etc) were of a higher quality when viewed on a PC (suspicion falling on the interlacing associated with the larger files). By Thursday this week I was able to send off final cut DVDs and QT files to the Washougal International Film Festival ( where AQOC has been accepted) and the 11th Annual Milwaukee Short Film Festival (where selection is pending). Thanks Jack (who worked through a cold to complete the job!)!Trevor Hughes is off to the US in a few weeks time (to raise funds) so our production meeting this week may well be our last opportunity to get the Babbage feature film script in a good shape for the investors. Watch this space!
Time is running out, for this year at least, for my other feature film script, The bloodline, but once we got a Portuguese version we should be able to move forward next year. My main Producer and the Director designate have been discussing principle cast but I can’t say any more at this stage.
Time has run out for my Creative Writing refresher course (until October anyway) but my last piece was very well received and it may form the basis of a short-short for next year’s Cannes. Watch this space!
