Uncredited Rewrites

Howdy,

I've been a little frustrated by a fair fews 'big' films recently, a lot of them seem to miss out on certain story strands or dramatic twists that I, personally, think would really improve the impact of the films. In a lot of cases the filmmakers wouldn't have needed to completely overhaul the film, just certain aspects in order to really give the audience an emotional wallop.

Anyway, in order to vent my frustration and go into some detail on what I feel should have been altered about these films I've set up another blog:

http://uncreditedrewrites.blogspot.com/

As it deals with the structure of a lot of new films I must stress that it is quite SPOILER heavy, so if you haven't seen any of the films covered it's best not to read the rewrite if you don't want to know what happens!

Hopefully I'll keep up with this blog, well, at least as long as Hollywood keeps disappointing me!

Owain

Clone Alone

I entered a film into this year's Virgin Media Shorts contest, it looks like this:

Clone Alone - Virgin Media Shorts

Here's a little ramble about the 'Making Of...' Clone Alone.



My mum had encouraged me to enter Virgin Media Shorts a few years ago, a friend of hers had entered a film I think, but I never got around to it. This year I was procrastinating at work and stumbled upon the 2011 competition, thinking; 'I really should enter this.'

Over the next few days I was pondering over an idea for a short, but nothing was coming to me that I felt was worthwhile and could be delivered to fit the 2:20 running time limit. I did keep coming back to the idea of clones in my head, as it's something I seem to be obsessed with...

It wasn't until a couple of days later, on the 3rd of July that I acutally thought I might have had enough of an idea to warrant turning a camera on, so that Sunday morning I wrote a script and asked my resting actor housemate Sean if he would be interested in playing the lead? He, hungover and slumped in the front room, said yes and asked when I was planning on filming it. I said, 'In about ten minutes.'

We filmed between 11am and 4pm as I had to go to an 'all day' gig that afternoon. Sean captured the footage onto a memory stick and I edited the film whenever I could find the time around my 9 to 5 job on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the deadline for the competition.

I literally finished the film and pressed upload at 11am on Thursday with one hour to go before entries closed. So, whilst there's so much about the film I'm unhappy with - though I don't think I'll ever be happy with any of my creative endeavours being a terrible perfectionist and all - I'm really proud of the film we made considering the haste with which the whole thing was cobbled together.

Now, all I need to do is finish the next episode of Captain Neon, which should be on its way, soonish...

INTERVIEW: Misty's Big Adventure

Hello,

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Grandmaster Gareth from Misty's Big Adventure, you can hear the resulting chit-chat here:

http://godisinthetvzine.co.uk/index.php/2011/05/16/interview-mistys-big-adventure/

Ta ta,

O.

Captain Neon: Episode 6

BAANEEX at the Lock Tavern

Here's a video of my band BAANEEX performing at the Lock Tavern:



Our next gig is at The Wilmington Arms on April 15th.

BLAHNEEX

Hello there,

My band BAANEEX have got a fair few gigs coming up, click on the link to read all about them:

Blahneex - BAANEEX

Will be posting a silly short film in a few days!

Owain

Captain Neon: Episode 5