'ANOTHER FILM IN THE WOODS' is here!

Well, well, well then...

No OTT introduction.  No hype.  No ridiculous build up.

Watch.  Enjoy.  Comment.   Be gentle.


"Another Film In The Woods"
Woke up.  Bought Breakfast.  Had to survive.

A horror short where 'Run Lola Run' meets 'The Evil Dead'. On the way back from picking up breakfast, Mandy falls into mysterious and dangerous woodland where she has to run for her life and hope to make it home in one piece. 

See ya on the flip side, Danny.

NEW SHORT FILM BITCHES

Well, well, well, haven't we been a busy little bee.

You may have seen my moody post of a TEASER poster a few weeks ago. Well me and Chris Earl have been busy working hard on a short film called 'Another Film In the Woods'.

Have got back into the swing of things with a couple of MUSIC VIDEOS , it was high time to get on the short narrative film front. So with a few competitions lined up, me and Chris thought we'd delve into doing a short 10 minute horror comedy.

Run Lola Run meets The Evil Dead was the idea.

So through taking a few hours out to write, audition, and cast the flick we finally got things in place.  Saturday just gone, we rallied the troops and shot our film with a all girl cast;

Amber Brookes

Nicola Chance

Rebecca Lund

Julia Bisby

It was a toughie and little Amber took a bit of a beating but she trooped on. In fact, they all did and I couldn't have thanked them enough.

I'm excited by the footage. Big time. Now to spend a day editing it and...who knows...we'll see if we got some fried gold with a techno soundtrack.

Been a bit of a monkey off my back.  Now lets see what happens.

Go HERE for some movie stills.

See ya on the flip side...Danny

-M E R R I N - Unleashed

As mentioned in the previous blog, here's the music video for 'Henry Kane' by -M E R R IN - on the night he smashes up the Nambucca live in London.

Enjoy.

See ya on the flip side...Danny

Derek and Merrin Enjoyed Their Time Together...

Its 'bin a whiiiile... Bad flashbacks to that song by Stained out of the way, but its true...its been sometime since the last blog and announcement of doing a new music video for -MERRIN-.

Its gone well...slow, but well. Took a while to get an idea with inspiration from Michael Mann's 'Manhunter' as a jumping off point and David Fincher's awesome credit sequence to the 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' remake to get the ball rolling. It evolved as the process went along and a story from beginning, middle, and end revealed itself.

But away from that pretentious guff, the bottom line is, its finished. Done. And the feedback? Well...the artist likes it. He loves it in fact. I nailed the mood, the tone, whilst adding that little bit of nightmarish spice and upsetting his girlfriend he said. Not too shabby if you ask me, and its always good to get a response like that.

Anyway, "where/when can I see this masterpiece?" you may not be asking. Answer to that is...I'm holding it back. "You twat!" I'll get in reply (well, I get called that all the time but that's another matter). -MERRIN- want to premier it at the their latest gig at the NAMBUCCA, in London this Sunday the 22nd April. So go check it out of you're in the Big Smoke and enjoy some prog-rock metal while you're there.

If you cant make it? The video will be unleashed Sunday night for all to enjoy (or not). Check back here or most social-twatworks that I'll spam on the back of it and other treats.

IN OTHER NEWS...I've threw out a few short scripts to a couple of festivals to see WTF may (or most probably not) happen. A horror short called 'Last Night Stand' sent to the The National Irish Science Fiction Film Awards which is around October. And the other, a drama/thriller called 'Before I go Away' from a story by me and a friend Michael Ellis, to the Bath Film Festival which is around November - and to which there's no hope in that one.

WOW, just reading over that it seems like a very productive few months which nice so here's to the next few months.  Need. To. Do. More.  I'll be back soon.

See ya on the flip side...Danny

Red Planet Fail

Ah yes....been a long time.

Anyway, got the dreaded email from the Red Planet Prize saying yo ass aint going to Mars.

Not really much of a surprise as when I read over the submission I sent...it was full of typo's. It pissed me off when I found out, but what can you do? Could've pinned my hopes on them liking the content and dismissing the errors, but then again its more than likely they hated the idea anyway so fuck it.

Getting good feedback on the feature script. All usable. All worthwhile. Quite happy with it and the response.

Time to polish (not the nob) up and eyeball competitions for 2012. Ye-fuckin-ha.

See ya on the flip side...Danny

Student Filmage...

Two blogs? In the space of a week? Stop whinging!

Anyway, short and sweet. As you know, Vimeo is our friend. Treat that friend with a nice night in and spend sometime checking out my student flicks from back in the day. RANDOM and CLARITY.

Both shot in my student years back in 2005 when no one knew what the fuck an IPhone even was. Clarity is the short and sweet number. It was shortlisted back in 2008 for a Horror festival judged by James Mullighan, Creative Director of Shooting People, makers of cult film The Zombie Diaries, Kevin Gates and Michael Bartlett and Ken Marshall, producer of the award winning LONDON TO BRIGHTON.

Random is the epic beast of a final year short I ended up shuffling around a few festivals such as the Leith Short Film Festival (now theEdinburgh Short Film Festival). Its 20 odd minutes long, so if you have some spare time check it out.

Anyway, dont be scared of leaving comments and reviews on the site, the blog etc as well as on RANDOM'S IMDB PAGE.

Chuckle, rinse, recollect the fun times or just lampoon this piss out of em. Feel free...bigger things await.

See ya on the flip side...Danny

UPDATES 2.0

Phew...time-consuming all this blog-page lark but I do have updates to whisper into ones ear.

Remember the Clarity short film that I mentioned before? Well, that's been updated and viewable HERE. Please leave comments and feedback...I dont mind, really. Really...

Anyway...I have also updated the FILMS section to incorporate links to the films via trailers and IMDB pages. This then leads me into...the GUIDE section.

To the right there's a STICKIES section which will give you a brief instruction on how to navigate the blog - bottom line is...everything is click-able.

ADDITIONALLY - There's also a contact page trying to promote any Music Video's you young Eddy Vedder's would like us to make.

Information overload I know...but its best to contain it in one place.

See ya on the flip side. Danny

CLARITY - DENIED

Sent a screener of Clarity, my 1st student short edited by Chris Earl with sound design by Dawn Feather (of Yorkshire Edit) to the Showroom Shorts ran by Rob Speranza.

Unfortunately it didnt get through, but what can ya do...apart from farting around with HTML and put as many links as possible in this blog post ala me?

See ya on the flip side. Danny