Monthly Archives February 2009

Test Shoot

Over the coming few weeks, Luke, Ali & I as well as a great guy we know called John, are going to be working out the logistics to do a little test shoot we wanna try out. The objective of it is to use the little short we shoot to pitch for a much bigger [...]

It’s Bad Enough That They Did Not Give Rourke The Oscar, But Not Nominate This Song For Best Song?

I love this movie because it is so simple yet so profound.
I love this song because it says so much with so little and just breaks your heart.

I can only aspire to make a movie like ‘The Wrestler’ at some point in my career.

Saturday, 20/02/09

So on Saturday, the Befour team met up again after quite a while. We’re a bit of a spread out bunch, with Luke in Glasgow, Ali in Bristol and myself based in London.

After much discussion in December, it was decided that with the momentum of the 2 movies, and the fact that Befour is being [...]

This Weekend

I have not been down to Bristol for a few weekends now, partially scheduled, partially due to the adverse weather we had.
This weekend will be particularly busy as Luke is down from Glasgow for a meeting in which he, Ali & I will be firming up the structure of Befour Media which will now likely [...]

The Raw Shark Texts

So like I blogged a while back, I bought this book after hearing Simon Beaufoy mention that it was what he was working on next.
I just finished it and it is without a doubt, the best & most original piece of writing I have read since…jeez I dunno, maybe ever.
I can’t say anything except to [...]

7 Collar T Shirt & Estrella Live In London

So been spending the past few days with Luke Yerbury & Ali Maggs, working up a costing as we are pitching to shoot the event above. These 2 Malaysian bands are being brought over to play a few uni gigs, and seeing that it’s not often that something like this happens for a Malaysian band,we [...]

Poh Si Teng

I’d been planning to blog about this fabulous journalist and documentarian for a while now, and finally got the time to sort it out.
Now I never had the knack for documentary (the research and fact checking nearly killed me), and thus I have a lot of respect for people who do it well.
I’ve always [...]

Getting Out Of A Comfort Zone

Like most other writers, I listen to a lot of music whilst writing. Normally I home into a few tracks that fits the mood and tone of what I am writing and I just chuck it into a playlist and I keep in on a loop.
If I find myself stuck with the ol’ block, then [...]

Current Reading

So it had been a while since I picked up some books, and I was feeling a bit starved of good reading. When I am working on a new script, I tend to read a lot as I find it jogs the process and helps with forming ideas etc.
So I picked up the following :

Funnily [...]

The Clock

Now, please feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but I first heard about this on a podcast with Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman and they were talking about how JJ Abrams uses this often to break down his story.
So as you can see, the 12 o clock position is the beginning and [...]