The Trailer

Usually, when I, El Director edits, I cut a trailer first, then get down to the cutting of the main portion of the film. However, with 'Jay and Kay Save the World' I got straight down to the business of editing as soon as the film was finished in March. After three months, the film was completed, and suddenly I realised that I had to cut a trailer for the short...so I duly oblige ;)

Click to see the trailer for 'Jay and Kay Save the World'

The 'to-do- list

In a way, I wish it all finished with editing, but the real 'fun' is beginning. I have seen this short film from the initial script and now to the final edited product. But the list of obligations is vast. Already, I have to put out another vlog fairly son, just to detail the actual shooting. Then comes form filling (ugh), re-exporting to a better codecs for DVD burning (double ugh) and I have to cut a trailer! (triple ugh)

I need to sleep...

The Bus Stop

Hello La Producer here!

Ok first off, I would like to say RIP Michael Jackson and thank you El Director for writing a beautiful blog about MJ earlier in the week.

Secondly, Caution, Wet Paint the movie is finally completed. The finished product is amazing and the team did a really good job. We have better quality equipment and the different is visible. I have to say that my sides are splitting from laughter everytime I watch it, and I cannot think of anything else that would chear me up on a wet and rainy day!

Anyway I thought I would re-cap and remind you of how the fun with Jay and Kay started...at The Bus Stop!

Vlogging in the Rain

The rain was wet and wild whie in India, so here's a little vlog...



And it is still India Month on the blog of El Director!

RIP Michael Jackson

There really is not much for me to say. To put it simply, what he accomplished in the fifty years on this Earth, is more than many of us can even begin to hope to equal. An absolute legend, the greatest musician of the 20th Century, a man who revolutionised the way we experienced music and what we listened to.

Rest In Peace MJ.

Now what?

That's it. It is official. Two days of rendering, burning DVD's, correcting last minute mistakes and then wholesale re-cutting of the pice has left me feeling kin od numb as I have actually finished editing Jay and Kay Save the World, which for anyone who has just joined us, is the very first outing of Caution Wet Paint in HD. It is my film festival offering for 2009-2010, and at ten minutes long, it is pretty impressive for a short film. I rather look at it as a featurette rather than just a mere short.

Anyhow, what now? Well, first send off the films to film festivals whose deadlines are fast approaching. That is the priorty. Thankfully, my preparation in terms of press packs and posters earlier this month really means that I can drop the letter in the mailbox and let it et to the festivals. A lot of the groundwork is already done.

Next send a bunch of DVD's to the cast and crew and open the swearbox in order to meet up with everyone again.

But it is a weird feeling. This film has been in the planning since late summer last year and part of the sequences were shot in October, some nine moths ago (although the main shooting took place in March). That means, for the best part of a year, Caution Wet Paint has been my life.

So what now? Do I go onto another project? Hell no. Here comes the hardest part. To continue with Caution Wet Pant, but this time follow it up with marketing alongside distribution to festivals. Now this is the tricky bit. How do I market? Well, like all aspects of film making, I am learning as I go along. Slowly, but surely, I will figure this one out. But definitely is to spruce up and update our website, which I have already begun to do...

El Director hates rendering

I may have a 3Ghz processor, 4GB of memory and 1TB on my main HD (plus another 1TB external drive). But that does not mean that this computer is not s**t. It is s**t. I hate computers.

In a (very) recent conversation with El Maestro, he asked what I am going to do once I have finished with Caution Wet Paint. One of the tempting answers was to smash my computer in...

Back to the screen of hell...

Taxes and Filming

One very unwelcome aside from filming is paperwork, especially taxes. Welcome to Britain, a country so caught up and suspicious of its own citizens, that the ordinary man is harassed beyond recompense. However, if you get to the top of the grease pole, then don't worry, you are decent and upright!

Okay, I am in a foul mood. Paperwork is one of the bug bears of filming...

I like cereal in the morning, choco cereal with lashings of milk, and sometimes a banana. I tend to not drink a latte with the cereal, as it makes me too full and then I can't cycle or move...so tea is my preference. I don't like to eat my cereal alone, it makes me feel queezy, no I like to always share my daily intake of cereal with my best friend Jay. He is a comic-book artist and I am a postman.

And this is what we have been up to:



la producer xx

Social Networking and filming?

Apparently, this social networking malarkey is meant to make you a better film maker. Can't see why. Still, I of course blog, as you can see from this screen, as well youtube, and shockingly I do something called Dailybooth which is about the most sickly bandwagon I am currently on. Essentially, it mainly shows me drinking tea.

The problem is that I am pretty awful wuth all this internet stuff.

Anyway, will get back in practice next week!