Thursday, September 30, 2004
Had a lovely coffee this morning with Cath and Gary. Talked of future, of our lovely SBC and of what's now, what's next. Very lovely. So cool to be feeling excited again and forward looking and not just backwards.
We have the last real dialogue scene to do Saturday and then 5 cutaway scenes, which still need production and sets and lighting.
Tonight I am varnishing the bookcart signs which read "Of Cambridge" on the front panel of the cart and "Slow Books" on the wheel that will be in shot. The typography for any who wish to know is Excalibur and I think it was Casablanca heavy sf. So I am varnishing till bed time by the light of the street lamp and the sound of Alien dvd extras. I think it looks pretty damn cool.
I just want to say what fucking lovely comments have been said on the blogg and when i bump into these guys it is even lovelier and all want to work more... most now, but some need to do things like work and study GEEZ!
I need to regain some funds as I am now skint, unfortunately the big bucks aint come yet and so it's thin wallets still, big hearts and now bigger cameras! Yeah! Only ten hours on it...
I think soon I will be putting ideas of my own more experimental projects onto www.theveranda.co.uk i.e The Grey Hinterlands and The Faery Tale of Rose and Magdalene as these are inspirational outbursts which will happen a little like beauty bombs, as Gary Hume once said about his bird pictures, when a set is made and when I fancy and those involved fancy and then we work like bastards... and the poetics of these new works need thinking about but they really are forming in my mind and may to be put into text on my site as I don't think it's really the place on the sbc site. It's the art background. One doesn't just make a painting every two years and then try to sell it. You have twenty on the go and they all feed each other and you don't stop till a certain period is over. There's too many beautiful, weird and terrible things in this old world that need pointing at to stop. And then maybe a pause and then maybe the schedules come out again and wowweee!!!! What the fuck next! But aren't images just fycjing ace!
We have the last real dialogue scene to do Saturday and then 5 cutaway scenes, which still need production and sets and lighting.
Tonight I am varnishing the bookcart signs which read "Of Cambridge" on the front panel of the cart and "Slow Books" on the wheel that will be in shot. The typography for any who wish to know is Excalibur and I think it was Casablanca heavy sf. So I am varnishing till bed time by the light of the street lamp and the sound of Alien dvd extras. I think it looks pretty damn cool.
I just want to say what fucking lovely comments have been said on the blogg and when i bump into these guys it is even lovelier and all want to work more... most now, but some need to do things like work and study GEEZ!
I need to regain some funds as I am now skint, unfortunately the big bucks aint come yet and so it's thin wallets still, big hearts and now bigger cameras! Yeah! Only ten hours on it...
I think soon I will be putting ideas of my own more experimental projects onto www.theveranda.co.uk i.e The Grey Hinterlands and The Faery Tale of Rose and Magdalene as these are inspirational outbursts which will happen a little like beauty bombs, as Gary Hume once said about his bird pictures, when a set is made and when I fancy and those involved fancy and then we work like bastards... and the poetics of these new works need thinking about but they really are forming in my mind and may to be put into text on my site as I don't think it's really the place on the sbc site. It's the art background. One doesn't just make a painting every two years and then try to sell it. You have twenty on the go and they all feed each other and you don't stop till a certain period is over. There's too many beautiful, weird and terrible things in this old world that need pointing at to stop. And then maybe a pause and then maybe the schedules come out again and wowweee!!!! What the fuck next! But aren't images just fycjing ace!
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
My God, you can really feel all the love in the room with the last few blogs! There seems to be a real outpouring of emotion from many people who have been involved in SBC and with good reason. This has been a truly collaborative effort where everyone has been willing to work for food (thanks Becki for the many scrumptious delights). It's been fantastic going on the many different shoots and everyone doing what they can to help out just for the love of doing it. It's so nice to get such like-minded people, who do work well together, functioning as a unit. Much fun has been had and it will be great to see the finished project.
I love you all XX
I love you all XX
Monday, September 27, 2004
howdy yawl
somthing has moved me to blog again (spirit or bowel.) Is Gary unlucky not to have met all the cast I think one or two would benefited from not meeting me, but then agin I only upset one fellow thesp LDV (They Make Vanns.) She may have also worked with Carl Z but could she work with the two of us together, the test of a real actress.
When marco bloggs about future projects I'm sure I'm not the only one that thinks if he can recreate the spirit, mood, and enthusiasm of SBC and past films the path to his door will be wide and deep eroded by thesp and crew alike. The trouble is if he keeps producing work where the quality just gets better & better me and CZ will have to become full time heavies for MZ. and that w'nt be acting. As an actor I would consider it an honor to be involved in anything that bears the name Marco Zaffino or MWE. please keep going Marco if only for the frustraed Russel Crowe wannabe.
love you all genuinley
Buck (just buck like lulu)
somthing has moved me to blog again (spirit or bowel.) Is Gary unlucky not to have met all the cast I think one or two would benefited from not meeting me, but then agin I only upset one fellow thesp LDV (They Make Vanns.) She may have also worked with Carl Z but could she work with the two of us together, the test of a real actress.
When marco bloggs about future projects I'm sure I'm not the only one that thinks if he can recreate the spirit, mood, and enthusiasm of SBC and past films the path to his door will be wide and deep eroded by thesp and crew alike. The trouble is if he keeps producing work where the quality just gets better & better me and CZ will have to become full time heavies for MZ. and that w'nt be acting. As an actor I would consider it an honor to be involved in anything that bears the name Marco Zaffino or MWE. please keep going Marco if only for the frustraed Russel Crowe wannabe.
love you all genuinley
Buck (just buck like lulu)
in answer to marco's last blogg, id love to b involved in any future projects u think im worthy of, as to b associated with u in any way shape or form is an honour let alone being my little brother who i am well proud of.
however i wont b offended if im not quite up to future films and i wont stop talking to u if this is your view, however i will cry alot lol
but seriously, loved being part of the film and cant wait to c the finished product, not many more films before real fame i dont think
lots of love not just to my little brother but everybody else involved on the film
Carl
however i wont b offended if im not quite up to future films and i wont stop talking to u if this is your view, however i will cry alot lol
but seriously, loved being part of the film and cant wait to c the finished product, not many more films before real fame i dont think
lots of love not just to my little brother but everybody else involved on the film
Carl
Sunday, September 26, 2004
The genuine excitment about the project shines through in the blog's and it 's really infectious and makes me so pleased to have been a part of it all, I love the idea of people coming from different places/countries and creating something together and then leaving again (is this making sense)
I think this is the first project i have been involved in which I havent actually met the majority of the other actors, although in some past projects this would have been a distinct advantage!I look forward with anticipation to what happens next !
I think this is the first project i have been involved in which I havent actually met the majority of the other actors, although in some past projects this would have been a distinct advantage!I look forward with anticipation to what happens next !
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Thought I better raise my tone a little.
The last shoots are about and then the edit should happen. I'm a little frightened as this is the point one sees if there is a story at all. One that may actually say something and mean something and give back something of our efforts in production.
The images are beautiful, the acting very good, and well i hope the story is worth seeing.
now to put the vegetables on before Becki gets home
My head is all over the place so I tried to root myself with writing the novel of SBC and also thinking about other projects I may endeavour to do "The Faery Tale of Rose and Magdalene" and another I'm thinking of that inhabits transient places mainly grey places, stairways, parking lots... feels a little Beckett like (probably spelt his name wrong excuse me. Becki named it "The Grey hinterlands" or "Municipal Hinterlands"or something to that effect, there's the Tudor feminist epic I want to write for Lindsay and Four other scripts that are already written. I want to work on some more inspirational spur of the moment stuff for a while though as an antidote (as Nik called it) before the next major scheduled crew piece. I feel like calling people involved when the spirit moves and seeing if they are up for the set and scene of that moment and just do it explosion at a time when people are free and I'm inspired and see what the hell happens.
Then I reckon Hoodwinks or Charcoal Burner,... more film films that need a year or two pre-production and 7 figure budgets. But until then there are a few 4 figure budgets still possible if people still want to be involved in and around these stories and images.
The last shoots are about and then the edit should happen. I'm a little frightened as this is the point one sees if there is a story at all. One that may actually say something and mean something and give back something of our efforts in production.
The images are beautiful, the acting very good, and well i hope the story is worth seeing.
now to put the vegetables on before Becki gets home
My head is all over the place so I tried to root myself with writing the novel of SBC and also thinking about other projects I may endeavour to do "The Faery Tale of Rose and Magdalene" and another I'm thinking of that inhabits transient places mainly grey places, stairways, parking lots... feels a little Beckett like (probably spelt his name wrong excuse me. Becki named it "The Grey hinterlands" or "Municipal Hinterlands"or something to that effect, there's the Tudor feminist epic I want to write for Lindsay and Four other scripts that are already written. I want to work on some more inspirational spur of the moment stuff for a while though as an antidote (as Nik called it) before the next major scheduled crew piece. I feel like calling people involved when the spirit moves and seeing if they are up for the set and scene of that moment and just do it explosion at a time when people are free and I'm inspired and see what the hell happens.
Then I reckon Hoodwinks or Charcoal Burner,... more film films that need a year or two pre-production and 7 figure budgets. But until then there are a few 4 figure budgets still possible if people still want to be involved in and around these stories and images.
Friday, September 24, 2004
along the same lines as Buck, and about the same weight just over 17 stone lol, failry sad that my acting is over, i have really enjoyed it and hope i havent let anyone down, but again i will reemphasize how much i have enjoyed the acting and working with such nice people.
c u all soon
Carl
at the premier if not b4
c u all soon
Carl
at the premier if not b4
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
There's a sadness looming. Jacq has left for Berlin and misses the last shoot which is like losing a knee or something, Joe went home but should be back for Thursday, Nik is at Uni working and Lindsay is starting Uni again, Matt has found gainful employment,... as Galadrial might say, the world is changing. Water lapping against a rock, cut to cgi tear, melancholy NY jazz and the Lord of the Rings has changed to the young romance that ends. I hope it can continue in it's many future guises. One never knows though and that is why one must try to suck every fucking bit of life out of each moment we gather together. If this is it we must sap it dry of life and if another gathering happens, and a happening happens and a films occurs then how fortunate we are to be part of something that can make such magic occur. I hope energy, and life and will can explode again after this one. Spoken By Crowds has been magical, as I were the films I worked on previously but I will never take for granted what has been offered by this set of wonder guys and I just want to say thank you and on for the last last shots and scenes.
Then edits... screaming at the camera man to pause the goddamn camera and save me what will be about ten hours of footage and gigglers, buck linz carl... the bloggs may come differently when edito marco appears,... dry cynical ruthless and dark eyed spitting tobacco at the screen when an airplane messes up a perfect scene... ADR ADR he screams.... I can't here the godamn foot steps.... where's the cutaway you directors never get the fucking cutaways... ;)
I'll have a different name I think from nice guy tony to Eric the cocking editor ... better get a computer now
back to romance
a toast to you guys
I hope we can some how keep in touch
Then edits... screaming at the camera man to pause the goddamn camera and save me what will be about ten hours of footage and gigglers, buck linz carl... the bloggs may come differently when edito marco appears,... dry cynical ruthless and dark eyed spitting tobacco at the screen when an airplane messes up a perfect scene... ADR ADR he screams.... I can't here the godamn foot steps.... where's the cutaway you directors never get the fucking cutaways... ;)
I'll have a different name I think from nice guy tony to Eric the cocking editor ... better get a computer now
back to romance
a toast to you guys
I hope we can some how keep in touch
Friday, September 17, 2004
here goes
Buck set loose blogging Ihope you all realise that Ihave the (lack of) know how to send this completley breasts accendant.
Any hoow things seem to be going swimmingly without me (marco ''get the awkward one out of the way then plane sailing''). I had a great week last week , on tuesday I saw marco & rob then on saturday evening I saw linz in town (I can hardley put it down to storking but its the first time ive been in town of a night time for ages & there she is ?)
Im going to get all luuuuuuuuuuuuvvvvvvvvvvvvvviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and say i miss you all and you all make me feel warm inside.As a 17.5ish stone peirced,tattooed straight talking man of the peopleit was youz lot who made it possible for me to be a widowed vulnerable single parent for afew evenings. I can only hope that with clever editing I wont let anyone down
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Buck Drop (note to self the rodgers in public)
Buck set loose blogging Ihope you all realise that Ihave the (lack of) know how to send this completley breasts accendant.
Any hoow things seem to be going swimmingly without me (marco ''get the awkward one out of the way then plane sailing''). I had a great week last week , on tuesday I saw marco & rob then on saturday evening I saw linz in town (I can hardley put it down to storking but its the first time ive been in town of a night time for ages & there she is ?)
Im going to get all luuuuuuuuuuuuvvvvvvvvvvvvvviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and say i miss you all and you all make me feel warm inside.As a 17.5ish stone peirced,tattooed straight talking man of the peopleit was youz lot who made it possible for me to be a widowed vulnerable single parent for afew evenings. I can only hope that with clever editing I wont let anyone down
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Buck Drop (note to self the rodgers in public)
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Last three days have been very organised and organising living in and out of Jac's pocket, lists and hugs... She is very bloody good at this. We've been locking down locations and actors, props and going over the director stuff which I suppose should be done now and then too and those confounded lines. Well i'm trying to get ready for harry scene and staring Jenny in the eyes I think will be daunting as an actor tomorrow, rather than as director where I just think cool profile and ... go on lass with some ger!!!
Just been for a run and now waiting for Jac, Joe and Nik to pop round for coffee and shot lists and all that stuff.
Need Bath and then I shall ask those little weird shaped adrenal glands to push once more and see if we can't just finish this beautiful experience. I wonder what's next.
Just looked through my window and Nik is here. So better wash and see what Mr Producer has in his bag of tricks :)
Just been for a run and now waiting for Jac, Joe and Nik to pop round for coffee and shot lists and all that stuff.
Need Bath and then I shall ask those little weird shaped adrenal glands to push once more and see if we can't just finish this beautiful experience. I wonder what's next.
Just looked through my window and Nik is here. So better wash and see what Mr Producer has in his bag of tricks :)
It's been interesting reading the intense rantings (meant in the nicest possible way) and fevered scribblings of our artistic leader, Mr Marco. I think it's quite hard to fully understand what this film really means to Marco, although it's not hard to see that he is putting his heart and soul into every frame of what will hopefully be a fully realised and beautiful piece of movie magic. He is a driven man and I admire his stamina and artistic vision. His kindness to his crew and his appreciation of what they have done has been second to none, and I for one have really enjoyed been involved in this film. Here's to the next one.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
the rehearsal with Linz Mik and Nik went tremendously... I am learning so much with these people. Nik (brown suited man) was very accommodating to the being thrown against a wall thing that happens on first meetings with Lindsay, and then when Mik put his head on Lindsay's lap to rehearse scene 32e i was the renaissance painter crying over crimson paints thinking if i could only paint this beauty. But my eyes are soaking this in and shall never forget... fuck painting...! Images that live and make me float in some cadenze from places in my brain that should be lost in hallucinations and dreams. I have never seen so many beautiful scenes in this cinemascope brain of mine before. Astounding.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
I have the best PA in the world, at exactly the right moment. I think I just have enough energy left to finish :) and then Jac is just organising my world and telling me everything I need to know and when I need to know it and my head, frazzled as it is is maybe gonna get there...
Very excited for this last few days, very sad, very focussued on the shoot and that's all I can focus on. I hope this shoot has the most amazing focus and love combined so we can finish intensely, beautifully and with the best shots yet. What an amazing experience this has been.
Right to yoga, and shiatsu, then rehearsal with Mik Nik and Linz
Very excited for this last few days, very sad, very focussued on the shoot and that's all I can focus on. I hope this shoot has the most amazing focus and love combined so we can finish intensely, beautifully and with the best shots yet. What an amazing experience this has been.
Right to yoga, and shiatsu, then rehearsal with Mik Nik and Linz
Monday, September 13, 2004
Well, that looks to be my last scene as old Maurizzio, and now I magically acquire a youthful and spritely appearance, thinker fuller hair, softer skin and the sexual stamina of an ox. All through the power of an new haircut. Oh the magic of cinema :) .
It's weird changing out of old Maurizzio's clothes, a large part of the filming is finished and we move onto the final shoot days. I'm gonna miss doing this.
But first Harry and then 1997.
It's good to be here.
It's weird changing out of old Maurizzio's clothes, a large part of the filming is finished and we move onto the final shoot days. I'm gonna miss doing this.
But first Harry and then 1997.
It's good to be here.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
hello,
well i'm at a computer with the tinternet so i thought i'd make an appearance. So far everything's gone well (suspicious look... when will it all go wrong???) and i havent giggled during shots or anything. Ok, that's a lie. But it's all in the name of out takes... and by the way, having someone as stubbly as nik whisper in your ear is quite tickly. But anyhoo. I've really enjoyed the older Jenny scenes but I'm so looking forward to her younger cheeky years, it'll be interesting to see her like that. Plus no hairpiece. And i get to eat icecream. And sandwiches. And she wears TROUSERS!!!!!!! heheheheheeeee. nope, in all seriousness i cant wait to see how the different sides of Jenny work with eachother and with the other characters. well as i'm going on a stinky diet tomorrow i'm off to enjoy my last chicken wrap for a while... sob. right well you crazy people, have fun and continue drinking tequila (cough: Marco!) and making movie magic and I'll see you all soon for beach fun.
Linz x
well i'm at a computer with the tinternet so i thought i'd make an appearance. So far everything's gone well (suspicious look... when will it all go wrong???) and i havent giggled during shots or anything. Ok, that's a lie. But it's all in the name of out takes... and by the way, having someone as stubbly as nik whisper in your ear is quite tickly. But anyhoo. I've really enjoyed the older Jenny scenes but I'm so looking forward to her younger cheeky years, it'll be interesting to see her like that. Plus no hairpiece. And i get to eat icecream. And sandwiches. And she wears TROUSERS!!!!!!! heheheheheeeee. nope, in all seriousness i cant wait to see how the different sides of Jenny work with eachother and with the other characters. well as i'm going on a stinky diet tomorrow i'm off to enjoy my last chicken wrap for a while... sob. right well you crazy people, have fun and continue drinking tequila (cough: Marco!) and making movie magic and I'll see you all soon for beach fun.
Linz x
I must be getting old because I'm tired and quite exhausted from this shoot. This was the "set-piece" weekend and everything went wonderfully well. I felt everyone worked hard on what could have been a chaotic and hectic weekend; in the end the cast and crew pulled together and everything was in the bag.
Then again I'm the producer so if the logistics go well, I become a happy bunny.
Now I've got to become an actor for my big scene with Jenny (Linz). Bit scary that scene :)
Here's to the final days of the shoot, my haircut and a beautiful film.
That's the evening over of the fourth shoot. Not as exhausting as past shoots, not as intense, not as drunk,.. some beautiful stuff, beautiful people, but it felt odd. Quiet. My head is not killing, intensity level at 7... the images haven't made my head spin, well a few have (more thanks to linz-ies profile than my cinematography). Need some enthusiam for the last couple of shoots I feel as this was the lull one (don't know how others feel as it went well but not hyper fucking wicked). Shall start getting intense for the next one, must not get complacent. This blog business will be soooo interesting to view as a document of thoughts throughout this wonderful show. Long film/long mind/tired mind must stop being tired and remember heart...
Monday, September 06, 2004
Well thanks to this set of renegade harpies that is the crew (good grammar) I have lost the feeling of atrophy in the upper regions of my brain and I feel reasonably whole again and ready to enjoy the next day's shoot. Sorry for this bout of fatigue. Will read script and storyboard and hopefully be on the ball. Thanks for getting me back on my feet today and last night, even if you didn't notice what you were doing, you did it.
p.s. Katy goes to Mexico today were Becki and I spent our honeymoon. Rio tequila (tequila being a personal friend of mine these last deborched days. Where from that most magical holiday I filled a water bottle with the strong tequila of the optics. Ever since the last drop of the tequila has passed on to the next new bottle,... But anyway that's just my tequila thing) what I should be saying is have a bloody lovely time and enjoy those pool side cocktails!!!
p.s. Katy goes to Mexico today were Becki and I spent our honeymoon. Rio tequila (tequila being a personal friend of mine these last deborched days. Where from that most magical holiday I filled a water bottle with the strong tequila of the optics. Ever since the last drop of the tequila has passed on to the next new bottle,... But anyway that's just my tequila thing) what I should be saying is have a bloody lovely time and enjoy those pool side cocktails!!!
FucK!!! ;)
Thursday, September 02, 2004
I'm really excited because I just got some great photos back from the two days of shooting at the seaside - Marco/Nik, I hope you can use some of them! There are some really nice candid shots of cast and crew in action (especially Rob dressed like a spunk- monster). There's also an intriguing shot of Becky looking at porn - who'd have thought! Adios, my friends and keep smiling.
