gnome

hey there

as a general rule (or guide), i try not to do things what are similar in content for successive posts. for some reason i think that those of them what read this - as in you, look you see - might get "bored". or perhaps it is that i feel like i would get bored with it. don't know. but, or and, yet a recent post what i gone done has somewhat unexpectedly inspired me. 

the brief motion picture, or if you like film, what i made for halloween (2021) appears to have awakened or stirred memories of a career i contemplated. that is of being a full blown, full tilt movie maker. director, if you will. i had this on the list as a potential to do with my life, along with deliberations over being an astronaut, a gynaecologist, writer, assistant to Princess Anne, teacher and so forth. pretty much all the careers what others consider before ending up doing this and that. 

so, with the technology i have to hand, yes, i figured, why not go ahead and make a motion picture. mostly the answer to that is because i lack the time, but then i considered it some more and decided i could, if the interest remained, make it gradually. 

luck, or co-incidence, would certainly seem to be with me in regards of this inspiration. so as to contribute to the boys' celebrations and what have you of halloween, i picked up the above gnome. not just any gnome, of course, but a Poundland one. which cost £2. no matter, it seemed ideal to make a quasi suspense, thriller, romantic comedy sort of horror film with. 

obviously no, the film is not complete yet. i think the term for what stage it is at is "pre-production", for momentarily i am still working on the story, script, etc. being at such an early point of being made, however, did not stop me from starting filming. 

granted, no, sure, i mean yes, not much of how the film might develop is revealed in these provisional scenes. all two of them. but that's how a good teaser trailer works, isn't it? a teaser should give a taste, as it were, and lure an audience in. hopefully that's what is done here. 

quite a drawback is that my film is going to be one of them avant-garde, post-modernist things, as in it shall be a silent motion picture. this is all down to the fact that the Commodore 64 mode thing i use has no sound with it. well, maybe it won't be (entirely) silent, if i can work out how to dub some sound on it and if i can be bothered to do so. 

recently i happened to watch (at last) Interstellar off of Christopher "Chris" Nolan, in whom we trust. other than it being a truly magnificent film, i drew (or took) further inspiration from the experience. so yes, then, i have every intention of making some of the film in that imax format. here's a sneak peek. 

indeed it is entirely possible that Chris, or for that matter Jonathan, Nolan sees this blog and take something of a fancy to taking over this project. this would be a bit like how, as i understand it, they came to make the inspirational Interstellar. well, my initial thoughts would probably be yes, i would be agreeable to a meeting and a handover. but let's not get ahead of ourselves. 

but that said, of course i am planning ahead for the inevitable dvd and blu-ray release. to that end, i am preparing some extras, in the form of deleted scenes, alternate takes and what have you. here's one. 

more of a bit of a "blooper" scene i suppose, since yes, this is indeed some of the provisional post, or pre, production footage i did when i had the camera welded to the phone the wrong way so it came out sideways. but still, this would make for a great extra on the home video release, probably.

well, not much else i can report on this project right now. if i make any further footage that feels like it should be shared, sure i shall showcase it here. or maybe one day you will see it being advertised as coming soon to a cinema near you, made by either moi or them Nolan lads, depending on how discussions go. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!