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
Sunday, 22 April 2012
Friday, 20 April 2012
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
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
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
When Derek met Merrin....
Easy now!
Having reconfirmed my ultimate disbelief in humanity and society in general (thank you Monday), its time to dive into some Music Video business.
A good friend of mine Chris Purdie has a rather tidy Doom/Metal band called MERRIN. Check out some tracks on the link and get all moody and shizntis as the band is ripping up some gigs daaarn saaarf.
Anyway, I dropped him a message to see if he needed or wanted any visual/music video pieces doing for any tracks. He said he has so Bob's your Monkhouse, Derek's are getting it done. Should be good fun and unconventional, which is how we like it, and a good piece to get back into the swing of things for 2012.
Also, if you've got some love to give, go check out MERRIN on Facebook for tours and gig stuff (give it the like, what harm can that do?). And also Chris' BLOG to check out some of his performances and video work.
See ya on the flip side...Danny
Having reconfirmed my ultimate disbelief in humanity and society in general (thank you Monday), its time to dive into some Music Video business.
A good friend of mine Chris Purdie has a rather tidy Doom/Metal band called MERRIN. Check out some tracks on the link and get all moody and shizntis as the band is ripping up some gigs daaarn saaarf.
Anyway, I dropped him a message to see if he needed or wanted any visual/music video pieces doing for any tracks. He said he has so Bob's your Monkhouse, Derek's are getting it done. Should be good fun and unconventional, which is how we like it, and a good piece to get back into the swing of things for 2012.
Also, if you've got some love to give, go check out MERRIN on Facebook for tours and gig stuff (give it the like, what harm can that do?). And also Chris' BLOG to check out some of his performances and video work.
See ya on the flip side...Danny
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
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
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
Saturday, 7 January 2012
FINALLY!!!!
"The Rock has come BACK"...we'll, not as awesome as TeamBringIt stomping all over the show but in my personal war of bringing foot to arse, I can happily report I have FINALLY finished my latest screenplay.
"Why are YOU so fuckin' happy?" You may ask, well...this one has been a toughie. I've tried to write at least one a year, and I did...till I began to write this ball-buster of a feature which I began tackling on 23rd September 2008 on the back of a successful pitch at a script writing seminar. And yes, oh dear it took 3 years to write. Now, its not the Godfather by any means but generally this was down to other "commitments" and the like. But a large chunk was down to the story, the tone, and the struggle to write an anarchic black comedy heavy on the violence, light on being P.C that didn't end up being a Troma film.
I haven't read it over yet but I know instantly what needs to go, what needs to change. The first 60 pages seems to be a mess but the rest seems clear and concise as it clocks in at 150 pages (WHOA!). But that's the future. The big thing now is that it's done, that all important 1st draft is done. The hard work of refinement begins now.
Addition to this, while feeling like it was a large rock on my shoulders creatively (twat!) that has now lifted, its time for the Red Planet Prize competition. No chance of getting anything out of it, but 2012 is just gonna be the year of hammering the comps and festivals...and also making something again after the 2Weeks2Makeit endeavour last year.
Kicking a mud-hole into 2012's bitch ass mo'fucker as Xzibit would say. Rather...
See ya on the flip side...Danny.
"Why are YOU so fuckin' happy?" You may ask, well...this one has been a toughie. I've tried to write at least one a year, and I did...till I began to write this ball-buster of a feature which I began tackling on 23rd September 2008 on the back of a successful pitch at a script writing seminar. And yes, oh dear it took 3 years to write. Now, its not the Godfather by any means but generally this was down to other "commitments" and the like. But a large chunk was down to the story, the tone, and the struggle to write an anarchic black comedy heavy on the violence, light on being P.C that didn't end up being a Troma film.
I haven't read it over yet but I know instantly what needs to go, what needs to change. The first 60 pages seems to be a mess but the rest seems clear and concise as it clocks in at 150 pages (WHOA!). But that's the future. The big thing now is that it's done, that all important 1st draft is done. The hard work of refinement begins now.
Addition to this, while feeling like it was a large rock on my shoulders creatively (twat!) that has now lifted, its time for the Red Planet Prize competition. No chance of getting anything out of it, but 2012 is just gonna be the year of hammering the comps and festivals...and also making something again after the 2Weeks2Makeit endeavour last year.
Kicking a mud-hole into 2012's bitch ass mo'fucker as Xzibit would say. Rather...
See ya on the flip side...Danny.
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
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
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
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