Before you send me a message about anything that offends you, please read this: I will no longer be giving anonymous messages/questions the time of day because it is very cowardly to hide behind it. From now on, any message I receive from anonymous will be deleted without reading, so if you are too afraid to let me see who you are, do not waste your time, whatever you have to say will fall on deaf ears (or eyes). About me: I am a British film maker, I write and I direct, I am in University and I have a very low opinion of myself but I just carry on because we only get one life and it's too fucking short to quit. In the words of Hank Moody (Californication): "I probably won't go down in history, but I will go down on your sister". My main love is film, obviously, but I love all art forms, including literature and music, as long as it was made for the love of the art and not for money, I love animals, I love both natural and human history, I love anthropology, I love philosophy, I love Formula 1, I love to regularly binge drink, I love the small handful of friends I have, and I love science, logic and reason. I am an Atheist who doesn't just disbelieve in any of the tens of thousands of Gods invented by man over the years, but I also do not believe in the afterlife (heaven and hell, ghosts or reincarnation, etc), fairies, psychics, horoscopes, Santa Claus, auras, alternative medicine/healing, or any other bullshit I occasionally rant about. But I will always stand up for an individual's right to believe whatever they want, as long as their beliefs don't negatively impact anyone elses lives. But in the words of George Gershwin, "The things that you're liable to read in the Bible / It ain't necessarily so" I am a single, straight man who rarely has any luck with the ladies and that depresses me sometimes. I firmly stand up for animal rights, gay rights, women's rights, and I firmly stand against prejudice and discrimination of gender, sexuality, colour, nationality, religion or disability, as well as the poaching and/or torture of animals. Can't you people just put aside your bullshit, intolerant, ignorant views, educate yourselves and stop being such cunts? The main thing you have to understand about this blog is that, every worded post I make, comes totally from myself, and from the heart, I often don't mean to offend, but sometimes I have to, just to get my point across, but I never go out to offend those who are, themselves, not offensive. I stand up for fair rights and liberties, and if I feel someone or something is taking those away from people, I will make a point. The only reason I want to be famous is so I can try to get people to listen to me and help them learn the true path to true human happiness and equality, and that path is simple; don't be a cunt. But don't consider me a dirty hippie twat, as much as I care for people's rights as a whole, I generally don't care for the individuals themselves (which is probably why I only have a handful of friends), I don't give a shit about people living in harmony together, I just want polite tolerance.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The Revelation of Tim Richardson needs money
I have begun principal photography on my film “The Revelation of Tim Richardson” and so far I have had to use my own money. However, I am rapidly running low on cash. Please take a look at the link and decide whether or not my film is worth donating to.
Personally, I think it is, but then I would say that wouldn’t I.
The Revelation of Tim Richardson needs money
I have begun principal photography on my film “The Revelation of Tim Richardson” and so far I have had to use my own money. However, I am rapidly running low on cash. Please take a look at the link and decide whether or not my film is worth donating to.
Personally, I think it is, but then I would say that wouldn’t I.
The very first trailer for my feature film debut - The Revelation of Tim Richardson.
God gives a speech to those left behind after the rapture.
Shooting Day 2
Today was another good day of shooting; we only did one scene, the scene when Tim gets to work. We could only shoot one of the bit parts because we could only get one actor to do it, we shall find a couple of people to do the other two and do those parts later on.
Josh was very good again, and this time he had time to read the script and learn his lines beforehand. Karl Brown, who plays Damien, was also very good, excellent for the part. We are cutting the scenes we did this weekend on Tuesday.
Some stills of the day.
Karl Brown (Damien)
Josh Wood (Tim) and myself (nearly everything)
Josh and Karl
Josh preparing for a take.
Finally a win
Okay, last night (1 March) we were hit with a blow. I went for a night out, 10 minutes beforehand I got an email from our lead actor (lead again) saying he can’t do it. So I spent at least 2 hours at Mukky Duck calling Georgi, trying to sort it out. I knew one thing, there’s no way in hell I was going to call another weekend off.
Fortunately, my good friend, Josh Wood, revealed to me in the night that he used to act in stage plays and that he would do it if we can’t find anyone. At first I was a bit wary, but Georgi and I decided to take the plunge and let him do it. And to my surprise (and he won’t mind me saying that), he was very good, he turned out to be great for the role, and even though he didn’t see the script until this morning, he learned and memorized the lines and delivered them exactly how I wanted.
So we have a new Tim, and he is brilliant. The best thing is, he’s my mate so he’s not going to let us down. Today (2 March), we did 2 and a half scenes, and nothing went wrong. It was the first time that the first day of shooting wasn’t stressful at all, and it didn’t take long either.
Tomorrow we shoot another scene, and I am feeling very good about it. But for now, here are some production stills from today.
Josh Wood and Liam Harkins (Tim and Pete respectively) rehearsing their lines.
Josh and Liam rehearsing.
First day of shooting - Take 2
Tomorrow (2nd March) is a retry of the first day of shooting. We have recast Tim, which is great, the equipment is here, everyone’s ready. I just hope it works out well. And on Sunday (3rd March) we are shooting another scene in Tim’s office of his bank, we have cast 2 of the 3 minor roles, still trying to get the 3rd, hopefully that will work out. But the office is amazing, it is a meeting room in the Octagon Building of the University which we have booked out for Sunday and because it has partitions, we can use it as God’s office too if we wanted.
Also, this week I have had a meeting with a man from Stafford Borough Council about using the market place to shoot 2 crucial scenes, a meeting with a woman from the Shire Hall Art Gallery about using the front of the building for the same scenes (the gallery is in the market place), and today I have had a meeting with another woman at the Staffordshire County Council Building about using one of the rooms there. The room is even better than what I was looking for, it is basically a meeting room for Councillors, it looks like a cabinet room at Parliament. Perfect.
Town Hall Ext.
I did not think to take a photo of the Int. room. Anyway, we just need to lock some dates in for it and we are good to go on this front, but until Monday, my sole concern is getting the weekend shoot done.
As of 17:00 on Friday 1st March, things are finally looking up. I hope they stay that way.
A Short Essay About Creativity
If you go on YouTube you can find a video Robert Rodriguez (Director of From Dusk Til Dawn, Sin City, etc) doing something called the 10 minute film school. Where he taught a class of aspiring filmmakers apparently everything about film in 10 minutes (he did not succeed, he taught them next to nothing about film), during the 10 minute session of rapidly skating over everything there is to film making, he said something along the lines of “People are born creative or technical, but creative people can become technical, technical people can never be creative”.
This, readers, is bullshit.
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A Foolish Clairvoyance.
A short film about a charlatan who claims to have psychic powers. After a night of heavy drinking he gains real psychic powers and uses them to his advantage.
The story is mine and I wrote the script; however, I did not take part in any of the production.
The Revelation of Tim Richardson funding
Please have a look at my film project and if you like the idea of it, please find it in your beautiful cinephile hearts to donate and then reblog, even if it’s a small amount.
I promise it will be as good as I can make it.
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RTS Midlands Awards
I arrive on Tumblr after quite a while of silence with insanely good news. Bang Science was nominated for a Royal Television Society Midlands Award for Undergraduate Entertainment, the awards ceremony was last night and it won.
I feel so happy, I am so proud of the show and I hope it will do well in the national show. It’s still a bit surreal for me that we won it, we went up to collect the award, we came back and we all looked at each other like “Did that really just happen?”
The ceremony was good, despite some technical difficulties that, frankly, we could have easily fixed. The after party was much better though, I’m going to let you glimpse behind the curtain for a second and tell you that people who work in film and TV are the biggest bunch of pissheads you could ever meet. It was mental, we all got wasted last night in the Electric Cinema in Birmingham, the night started with an organist playing to an old Laurel and Hardy film while we drank champagne cocktails, then later on it we got a karaoke up using YouTube hooked up to the projector. All while networking.
This is the first networking session I’ve ever done, and I must say, it’s much easier when you’re all getting pissed up. I chatted to lots of people, generally about absolute shit which was brilliant. We eventually got back in to Stafford at 6am, I have had a total of 4 hours sleep, it would have been more but I got called for an interview about the awards by my Uni’s marketing people (or something like that) at 9:30.
But overall, last night reinforced my desire to work in the film and TV industry, especially where people are concerned. I just need to get through working with unreliable, inconsiderate, lazy students who can’t do a simple task first.
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