Haven’t blooged in over a week, my Daily Mugshot fell below 90% and I have a Boo Review Backlist going back all month.
So we can agrre that the work/ creative balance hasn’t been too good.
On half term this week, but still have to go into work! and wont get paid…
However I will have time to myself and so WILL catch up with writing, and will get back into the swing of things and bore you with the details of what i have worked on and have achieved.
Follow Friday is a twitter trend to promote Friends, like minded people, people of interest, on Twitter.
Les Cochrane quite rightly noted that a random list of names means nothing, he’d much rather have a select few names and a reason why they’d be good to follow.
I decided to do a bit of both, and use my blog to talk about those on Twitter I follow, and why I think you should follow them too.
I’ll only recommend a maximum of ten per week and will set up a category so you can find them should you so wish.
Todays #followfriday is dedicated to those funny, interesting cats who have yet to break the magic 100 Followers and I honestly feel that you and they would be better off if you just tweeted them to say Hi…
Some of them may not have tweeted that much, but im sure with your support…
Andy Walker: KMFM radio’s morning DJ and fellow Lecturer.
Andrew Ireland: Undergraduate Dean at Bournemouth Media School and Director of the a Cheeky Girls Musicc Video.
Andy Mac: Maybe you can bring him out of his cave. He has known to be funny, and even have an opinion or two.
Matt ‘Cherub‘: Guitarist in Mind Without Maths. Lock up your daughters.
David Skelton: Co-Founder of LeMonday, Nice Facist, recent Father and connected to the mysterious Sheep of Justice.
Rachael Lewis: She helped to bring about the end of the world. but otherwise is really great, she needs your followship. But don’t try and hug her.
By now we were all so tired, that i forgot to post this blog
So Episode 4, written by Amy Flanighan and Nina Bailey, contains flashbacks. Which is naughty, soaps don’t have flashbacks.
It was also the episode which was nominated for a NASTA, which led to a nice little jolly somewhere.
Matt Clarke sign seals and delivers the episode; he takes Bruce from a one-joke character and given the room shines. Matt, also a student at Bournemouth asked me if he could have a role as an editor on the production as that was his specialism. Due to time constraints I had to say no, we needed him on set. I felt bad, but not that bad.
Looking at the party scene, not only did we get to leave the flat again, whoop whoop, but you can see that some people clearly weren’t up for another party shoot. And so the house is quite sparse.
Now point of confusion, is it a Halloween party, I really can’t remember. Because if so then that sets this in November and means that the whol series happened in the first term of Uni. So I choose to say no, they just chose to wear Halloweeny type costumes. Right.
The episode also over ran. Which was a hassle for putting it on youtube.
By this point communications between a lot of the crew had broken down. We were tired, and I under appreciated a lot of people. And at the risk of sounding whiney, didn’t always feel the love myself. To the extent that there was some who all communications broke down with for the final year of Uni.
And to those people I would like to say sorry and thank you.
At the end Mark Williams got a special jokey shout out in the credits. Whilst a lot of the first year runners were great, Sian as previously mentioned took one for the team. Mark went above and beyond, putting more hours in then were legal. Though this was back in the day he was reliable.
Time is short and memory is vague, can I write a piece about each episode?
Written by George Wielgus and Dom Lawson this was by far my favourite script and a lot of what I liked never made it to the screen.
Finishing the two part story and the series as a whole. I love Matts portrayl of Dylan and Doug as the clown.
Not all the pieces come together fully but by now that fact people were still talking to each other was a miracle. And I didn’t take fully responsibilty for my own failings to communicate for quite a while.
Im still proud of Stepping Stones but unfortunetly its greatest achievement is that it exists at all. It wasn’t tried before and to my knowledge wasn’t attempted again. I was asked to run the student tv station the following year and we successfully produced a series of live music shows broadcast on to the net. Pioneers.
As and when im going to update what the rest of the Stepping Stone survivors have been up to.
Follow Friday is a twitter trend to promote Friends, like minded people, people of interest, on Twitter.
Les Cochrane quite rightly noted that a random list of names means nothing, he’d much rather have a select few names and a reason why they’d be good to follow.
I decided to do a bit of both, and use my blog to talk about those on Twitter I follow, and why I think you should follow them too.
I’ll only recommend a maximum of ten per week and will set up a category so you can find them should you so wish.
This weeks 10, are fellow graduates of Bournemouth Media School, and in no particular order;
In a break from our intended piece i present a link to a video i saw about Online Video which i found to be informative and entertaining and thought you might too.
It features Irina Slutsky of GETV and Verionica Belmont of Revision 3
Episode 3 written by Matt Handrahan, Tom Lane and Sam Guest, is my favourite episode. And the two scenes book ending the episode are may favourite of the whole show.
Laurence, in a running theme you may have noticed, did his best to ruin them. He also cast Anakin Skywalker, writes ITV Drama Premiers and has an uncredited directorial role in the Matrix sequels.
The role of the Landlord was written specifically for Terry Turbo, who had sent us a glorious showreel for an earlier project. The eloquent dialogue was crafted especially and Laurence attempted an 11th hour rewrite to tone it down. Thankfully the Landlord was handled with zeal.
I remember Darius being very nervous about the finale and what was to be shown, he need not have worried. If we weren’t going to film hot nurses in the shower we deff weren’t going to film his secret sauce cooking.
Also look out fro the great disappearing cameo by Stephanie Stevens.
The episode is also of note in that it was the first episode to properly leave the flat, and the only episode to actually have a scene set in an external location. This was due to a very tight shooting schedule and a tighter budget.
Now remember not to forget about the package, otherwise the end of Episode 5 will make even less sense.
