Actually turned out to be an interesting week.
Firstly, my old friend Stuart Lock and I are reworking and redrafting some feature screenplays we've spent the last two odd years on, and these are looking more than hopeful.
Secondly, I've been tinkering with, and falling in love with once again, cheap cameras. Lately it's an EOS-M, the first one, bought a few years back with an 18-55 kit lens for £199, while these were still cheap. I'm having blast being more creative than worrying extra features and high-end gear, and loving the real "low-budget indie" look. And no, it doesn't even have ML installed.
Had a couple more commissions for short promo videos (my bread and butter between more lengthly jobs).
And finally, something I'm way more excited about than I probably should be, is a new YouTube Channel, under yet another of my pseudonyms. Basically, it's your run-of-the-mill "film-making advice" channel, but with a difference. I got a little tired of seeing so many "tips for film-makers", "10 mistakes film-makers make", and various other generic and repetitive YouTubers giving very bland, unoriginal, and often unnecessary advice. Added to which, have you ever seen the films that half of these people make?
So I decided what's needed is something a little different, something which actually explains these "tips and mistakes", and why YouTubers aren't the best source of advice (well, except me and one or two others I could name who actually do make decent quality productions), along with some criticism of aspiring film-makers' work and some forms of competitions from time to time (such as the change to win some extra funding for low budget films, free screenwriting consultancy, etc).
Thank G-d Shabbos is here. It's been a busy one.