A short update
I have not posted for some time, not because I have not been doing anything interesting but more because I did not have anything really interesting to say. Life has, indeed, been quite busy – some photo-shoots for clients, organising Moving Image Cork, flying to London for my regular working and family visits and working on a couple of films.
You may have noticed from previous posts or tweets that I was involved in the shooting of a feature film called “The Vein Within”. Indeed, there was some two weeks of shooting in early June, around Cork city and harbour. Sadly this was not a success, through no fault of the crew who gelled into quite an efficient and cohesive body of people despite our amateur status. Suffice it to say that only one of that original crew of about 20 people is still involved with the production. Failure though it was, I for one came away with many lessons learned about how to organise a film production and quite a few lessons about how not to film it! Hopefully these lessons will be translated into better run and better filmed future productions.
Following the launch of Moving Image Cork I became involved with a short film production called “The Tunnel”. While I can’t say too much publicly at this time as the film is still in the editing stage, the few people who have seen early rough edits have all been most complimentary. Many thanks to director and writer Brian Whelan for coming up with the idea.
In the last week I have been attending a course on documentary film making at UCC. This was interesting and, as always with this kind of course, extended my knowledge and helped improve my filming skills. The finale of the course was to film a short documentary of our own choosing. My team of 6 chose the subject of “Greetings” and consists of interviews with various residents and visitors in Cork city centre. It proved quite interesting, fun to film and hopefully will result in some good footage. There is a lot of editing to do before it will be ready for publication though.
