LEAVE IT TO FATE

PREVIOUSLY ON 'DAY FOR NIGHT'

Okay, so two key crew had to pull out from my team for the competition and now I've decided to push the filming back because I kinda like the story and it's not going to be too tough to shoot and put together so I've rescheduled a production Pow-Wow for Tuesday night.

END OF RECAP.

Okay, so now I was on the way to have dinner in YO SUSHI! @ Russell SQ with some friends on thier last night in the glorious UK and I was struck with this idea as I marched up Bloomsbury - 'Why not ring Miran and ask him to bring back our old filmmaking double act for the film contest?'

It was a good idea because I was more than a little put out that I couldn't make the mini-movie that I planned on doing but I knew that we have a speedy, tough work ethic when we are under a tight deadline, plus we've got simular story tastes and are very open & ruthlessly truthful when it comes to story ideas. We could make something very commercial or perverse at a drop of a hat.

So I called him up and was basically like ''Hey, lets make an off the cuff Genre art mini-movie - something really noirish about street magicans, huh?'' and he wasn't too keen on that story or even having a story for that matter, he wanted us to go into this contest green and thump out a story as soon as we got the guidelines on that Saturday morning. I was taken aback by this but a little excited at the prospect - it was a huge challenge to my overthinking brain and if I was going to make this leap into the unknown it would of been perfect to jump with Miran because he's as story literate as me and is open to crazy, artsy filmmaking and risks.

Now I'm ready to just turn up with a crazy mind, pen + notebook, credit card, a video camera, a digital camera, tripod, two full batterys, a charger, a skateboard and a powerful torch with some diffuser to bounce off. Total Ghetto filmmaking.

A N Y W A Y. . . .

I've also come across some snazzy French Electro - YELLE, who's this potty mouthed Nouvelle Rave mash-up between M.I.A. & France Gall. KAVINSKY (pictured) who's very dark, John Carpenter meets JUSTICE beats to an Eighties TV show that never happened. It's edgy, experimental stuff that I've been trying to get my head around. The artwork looks like Tobias Jones' work on 'Does It Offend You, Yeah?' meets 80's MARVEL Comics which I LOVE!!!!

Okay, I'm going off now to eat, watch Hitchcock's 'Shadow of a Doubt' and read some Scott Pilgrim.

P E A C E O U T

- RAMZEE

TOO MUCH TOO SOON?

Don't you just love it when a plan doesn't come together?

Two Mondays ago I heard it thru the grapevine that the SC-FI channel were running a 48 Film Challenge so I pounced on it like a Somalian on a Red Cross Food drop. I emailed, phoned and googled and I managed to get a skeleton crew, actors, props, costumes and some of the locations but the crew seem to be asking for a new shoot date and the remaining key location remains elusive. I bet Hannibal from The A: Team never had such trouble.

But lets rewind to more happier times when I actually thought this project was a go and I was writting it. The story was a mish mash of horror clique, comic books (actually one comic book: Uncanny Xmen # 170), indie music videos (Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Y Control'), Sk8 Board tapes - all stirred up into this DIY Gondry-esque film making etchic where CGI effects are replaced by imaginative homemade constructs. I was having a whale of a time devising the whole thing.

Production was my Achilles Heel. I basically had to drop the writing pen and drawing pencil and start organizing things to make this film happen the way I saw it on the slim shooting & completion date of JUST ONE WEEKEND. I openned up Google, cracked open my notepad and started putting a serious dent into my phone credit to russle up a crew, actors, props etc etc yadda yadda. It was a bitch and next time I'll get somebody else 2 do it coz it leaves, like, ZERO time to work on a script or storyboards or character designs.

For me money wasn't a huge issue - I worked it out that the film will be done cheap 'N' cheerful - but it was street cred. Any major studio or minor production company has a rep, cred or a name that will make people who can give you a location help you out and stuff but when you're just a Ramsey and a one man production company they play you off like a snooty hot girl @ a club, LOL.

Right now I'm trying to decide to a go still for the 48 Hour Film Challenge and put out a film that I didn't envision or write a completely different plot and start it all over again. Problem is I have a liking for the one I've already written - it's wacky, fun and pretty imaginative. Or maybe do I screw the challenge and film it at a latter date so I'll have more time and I can shoot it the way I wanna?

I'm starting to sway toward the latter.

I like to listen to stuff when I'm being creative - it inspires me lots - so here's the playlist of music (or choooonz) I was playing in the background whilst I was ferverously plotting out the story and the look of my short film.

EVERYBODY NOSE - n*e*r*d
AMERICAN BOY - Estelle Feat. Kanye West
BEARS ARE COMING - Late Of The Pier
RUN - Gnarls Barkely
ALWAYS WHERE I NEED TO BE - The Kooks
A-PUNK - Vampire Weekend
CREATOR (Vs FreQnasty + Switch Mix) - Santogold
BECKY - Be Your Own Pet
4 MINUTES (Radio Edit) - Madonna Feat. Justin Timberlake + Timbaland
HITTEN - Those Dancing Days
CHASING PAVEMENTS - Adele

PEACE OUTTTTTTTTTTTTT (2B Continued)
- RAMZEE x