daninski

So, I’m trying to buy myself a car. It’s harder than it should be. The funding looks like it could be interesting for the short, hopefully benificial for all. And the pitching? The last lot hasn’t been so good. I’ll know how sad/happy to be on Wednesday… I’ll put a picture up if it’s all bad.

Well, a change of plan indeed. Just before I left for Scotland we got some pitch work to do. So that was front of the brain queue instead of the short. Dag nam it! But it’s ok because if we get it it’ll be a four monthish job, and we’ll be able to still work on other stuff in tandem. The pitch deadline is the 15th, so again if we don’t get it it won’t take all our time.
In other news, I watched Jerry Sadowitz (I’m guessing the spelling) and I can’t actually remember the magic. My brain was completely in shock at the level of bile being spewed.
There we go, it was strange paying £16 to watch an actual crime.
It was in a giant upside-down cow too, which has been a bit of a feature of the Edinburgh festival over the years.
Also, whilst I’m rambling, does anyone know why do many of the fine pubs in Edinburgh have those little slim tables bolted to the floor? The romantic in me would say it’s to stop people battling with them in the more jolly moments of drink related festivity.
The Blue Blazer on Bread Street is a good place to see them, as is The Bow on West Bow/Victoria Street. I’ll have to mention The Half Way on the interestingly named Fleshmarket Close, just off Cockburn. Smallest pub in one of the most dangerous places you could build a pub. Half way up a steep set of stone steps. In Scotland.

So, at the moment we have a pretty final script. We have the beginings of shot descriptions too, finishing them is the task at hand. I’m going to be flying up to Edinburgh for the weekend so the time spent traveling and sitting should be plenty. Then the script can be tightened and the storyboard done, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves hmmm?
Whilst this is going on we still have to prod about for possible funding. Our ‘girl in the know’, Mel at Picasso Pictures is doing a good job for us on this front although she is finding that fundings preference is live action. Everyone knows animation is king surely?
So, in summary, deadline for first draft shot descriptions is Tuesday. Tuesday or be damned!

This is the blog of Daniel Benjamin Gray.
It’s going to have some random stuff, and things for a new short from Holbrook’s Films; just to document it because it’s nice to remember where things came from when you’ve long since ended.
The random stuff’ll be bad photos, bad photos of drawings and the finely crafted musings of a drunk.
Perfect.

Here’s some links about what Tom Brown and I do at Holbrook’s…

www.holbrooksfilms.com
www.tdotodotm.com

And an ominously quiet deviantart page, daninski.deviantart.com