I'm getting there...

Just wanted to do a quick update whilst the system is down at work.


1. Everyday Joe - I managed to get things sorted editing the voice work only to come back to mix it properly and find that there are a number of holes. Back to re-editing, trying to mix as I go. It is nearly there, but I do keep falling out of favour with it. I never realised how moany it is. However, hopefully, with a proper mix and a few songs here and there it should be a pretty enjoyable listen.

2. After rewriting the script, and then getting stuck looking at dolls (it is related, I'm not mental) I seem to be finally making some progress. The next stage I'm working on is to get the shot list sorted. This may seem too early, seeing as though I have no cast or crew, but it's the best way to get a layout of locations and which scenes need to be animated! (spoiler).

3. I have done nothing for the bonkers adventure film set in Victorian England.


Regarding Mass Effect 2, I'm still plugging away but nothing too great to announce on that front. I'm not sure it's an improvement on the first game. Seems a hell of a lot more linear. "Recruit crew mate, get mission from crew mate, they become loyal...and repeat"

I'm still enjoying it, just trying to find time to squeeze it in.

Along with all the above, I've now been tasked to look after MovieBar whilst Brother Chris looks after his son, Nephew Eric. (Obviously Brother Chris won't refer to him as Nephew Eric as that would be ridiculous)
For now, that's my update.

Next time, I may be able to provide a few more details.

Cheers!!

Going out on my own...

... although I actually think I'll have help from someone? Anyone? Maybe for a hour or so?

"What are you talking about?" you'll now be asking your good selves. I shall explain.

After helping out on two Jenny Ringo films with Brother Chris (and many other awesome folk) I decided to take a look at how my own list of projects had progressed.

I had a couple of treatments, a few half ideas, even more complete ideas, an unedited recorded voice over track, with bonus half finished storyboard and to finish off a handful of old scripts collecting dust.

So I decided I need to actually get some of this stuff completed. Now I need a deadline, otherwise I'm not going to get anything finished. Well I know, I have a birthday at the end of November, and after then it's Christmas and nothing ever gets done until the following January. This will be my target.

By my birthday I will complete every half finished project on my PC to start afresh in the new year...

Wait a minute, that is ridiculous. If I didn't have to waste the best part of each day at work, then maybe this task would be completed. Unfortunately I do no live in this idyllic Shangri La world. I must work. Phooey!

Ok, so I'll finish as much as I can. Let's just pick a handful of projects and I'll get those completed.

*atmospheric lightning strike* (and it;s cool as it's the Empire State Building)

I declare that by my birthday in late November, marking my 30 years upon this here Earth, I will have completed the following:

1. Complete the "Radio Play" Everyday Joe.

2. Complete my first, "professional" short film.

3. Complete the super secret script for a bonkers adventure film set in Victorian England.


If I do not fully complete the above I at least hope to:

1a. Complete the "Radio Play" Everyday Joe. (It's nearly finsihed now so I'm cheating a bit)

2a. Complete the filming for my first, "professional" short film.

3a. Complete the treatment for a bonkers adventure film set in Victorian England.



If I do not pass the above checkpoints then I will give up, I guess.

Ok, so I'd better get started. I'll try to give a little more back story to the above choices as I go. I can't honestly say I will, and I'm bound to get grumpy along the way.

I'll try to update.

As for now, I'm going to play Mass Effect 2.

There are rumblings in the distance...

So I've calmed down a lot...sort of.

I was going to bring this back after an interesting visit to see Cabin in the Woods - (This film is amazing. So much fun) - talky kids in front, girl with box of baked cakes to the side and and older couple behind with classic phrases such as "Oh I don't like this" and "For goodness sake!"

But I kept my mouth shut not wanting to bring back the moaning blog once again.

However I'm slowly building momentum on a new short project that I hope to chronicle here.

No details as of yet as I'm still working things out but hopefully I'll have a few tidbits soon.

So it seems there may be a few ghostly games after all!

No More Ghostly Games...

So I haven't blogged in a while so this must be a real doozy.

However it is not. I have done a lot of things, attended MovieBars, been to comedy nights, theatre shows and film screenings. I've had fun times and bad times. I've posted about a lot of them here.

However I find that ever since the introduction of the blogspot stats viewer, I've become a little disheartened on my readership. I wish it was up there with the best of them. I wish people would stop me in the street and say "You're right, Congo is actually really good" but alas they do not. Instead I fill these pages with mindless rants and raves, only for horny teenagers to get sidetracked as they look up pictures of Babydoll from Suckerpunch.

So I'm not saying this is my last post. More likely I'll be back on tomorrow with a rant about the endless circle of script notes I get (I seriously think it's time to submit draft 1 again).

I think I will shut the power off for a time though. But rather than let it die here, I'll give it closing statement to send it off into the world.

Thank you to those who have stuck by me, especially as I probably know you in person, and will have probably performed a lot of this information live, in the past.

But the time has come.

No more ghostly games, trick or treat.

For now at least.

Harrison Ford plays Uncharted 3...

I've just seen this video where Harrison Ford plays Uncharted 3 in a passing of the adventurer torch. I'm supposed to be rendering a video for the Halloween Moviebar but wanted to share the video with you.
Enjoy! There may be slight spoilers within, just a bit of gameplay stuff, nothing too revealing.




I can't tell if this is awesome or embarrassing, but I like the idea of Harrison Ford playing games. Especially Uncharted. It's taken from the Japanese Uncharted site and I guess is marketed as Indiana Jones passing the torch. Not sure it really works this way, but it's nice to here him discuss a game he has absolutely nothing to do with.

Next time I want to see Adam West playing Batman Arkham City. That would be truly awesome!

Page Views...

So I come to blog, after a while not doing so, and I find myself confronted by a new view. Upon this view, as other blogspot user will know. is the ability to see ones stats.

Now I know other methods and programs exist for this type of review, but I'm lazy. Now I can easily see what a difference I'm making to the world.

Absolutely none.

Well 49 people, of which I'm probably a handful, wanted to see my thoughts on Sucker Punch. Beyond that I seem to average out at 3 page view per post.

The sad thing is I pretty much know who these people are, and would probably benefit more, if I either just rang them up, or sent out a monthly Newsletter of my adventures in not much at all.

I was going to do a proper post about how I may be changing projects again, how I'm busy writing things and generally how Jenny Ringo is awesome, and now on the IMDB.

But instead I'm going to wallow in sadness and stare at my stats to see just how many people view my blog.

I was under the impression that people would want to know "how it all went down!"

Perhaps not.


Editors Note:
I have looked more closely at my stats and discovered that I was only looking for the last week. I now realise that Sucker Punch got 2172 page views. So I stadn corrected, clearly people just want to know how Sucker Punch went down.

I really need to blog...

So the last couple of months have been a bit mental, some good stuff, some bad.

I should really do an extended blog but I'm at work so can't.

Maybe next time.