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