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My Film Turn will make its WORLD PREMIERE at Future Shorts Cork on the 2nd of May.

An unexpected turn changes Peter’s outlook on life.

Everything is going right for Peter, he has his girlfriend who he loves to bits, and he has good mates and is loving life in general. But one day all that changes when an unexpected Turn changes everything leaving Peter’s life turned upside down. Betrayed and hurt will he seek revenge? How will he deal with his feelings and what outcome will they lead to.

Egomotion and Future Shorts Ireland Present !

The First Future Shorts Ireland Short film night in Cork.

Wed 2nd May 8pm Upstairs in the Roundy Castle Street Cork.

Cover Charge 5 yo yo’s

A night with 9 of the best of international shorts from the Future Shorts stable.

3 Slots for local film with a meet the filmmaker Q&A

Music and DJ at the interval and after.
A great night out that will be held monthly

Future Shorts is an international short film distribution network that aims to promote and elevate the short film in it’s own right. Proceeds from the screenings held all over the world filter back to the filmmakers. Check out www.futureshorts.com for more details of what they’re about.
egomotion is a Cork Based Film Company that maintains an online resource the Motion : Forum for Filmmakers writers and Cast and to discuss and collaborate on film Projects www.egomotion.net for more

I’m going to give this place an overhaul and see if I can post more often this year!!

I won’t be posting every day but I might try once a month or week if pushing it…. we’ll see how things go!

Jeez, I’m really bad at this blogging craic! August was the last time I posted!

I have been quiet busy though, Turn is almost finished! I expect it to be all done and dusted after Christmas. Just trying to short out the soundtrack.

As regards My Ball and The Hitchiker, no progress! I do hope to shoot My Ball after christmas but The Hitchiker has been put of for now.

Have another short also in development. Oh and in the past few months I have also done an edit to “Forever in Love” my Feature script. yay!

The short films My Ball and The Hitchiker have entered the pre-production stage. These are two short shorts with My Ball being about a three minute short while The Hitchiker is only about a minute.

With this in mind I plan to shoot the two of them on the same day. I have as a result changed the location in My Ball but this won’t affect the story.

No idea as to when shooting will be as of yet.

With both films being shot outdoors and for the most part MOS, very little crew will be needed, infact I could shoot the two on my own, but I’m sure I get one or two people in just for the sake of it!

I can’t believe how fast the summer is going, July is almost over now and no, I have done very little of what I had planned so far.

I have been pretty busy of late with video jobs recording matches so the coaches can analyse where they’re strengths and weaknesses are. Got three this week alone! Not the most exciting but it beats the hell out of doing weddings. Also talks of a few corporate video in the pipeline.

While these aren’t the reason you get into filmmaking, they pay! Making shorts films doesn’t! and can maybe go someway to get you’re next film project of the ground.

The past few weeks have been taken up with other interests that have taken up alot of my spare time hence the lack of posts. Will soon sort that out!

Got a few editing jobs coming up! YAY

The Irish civil war film, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, has won the Palme d’Or at the prestigious Cannes film festival. This is the first time that an Irish film has won the award.

The film is an uncompromising look at British brutality and torture and a bloody saga of British against Irish and brother against brother during Ireland’s fight for independence and subsequent civil war in the early 1920s.

Loach told reporters after the ceremony: “We live in extraordinary times and that has made people political in a way they maybe weren’t in the previous four, five, six years. The wars that we have seen, the occupations that we see throughout the world — people finally cannot turn away from that. It’s very exciting to be able to deal with this in films, and not just be a complement to the popcorn.”

“‘It’s been interesting that some politicians say we must apologise for the Empire but I haven’t heard any apologies.

“‘We have to acknowledge the exploitation and the oppression of the British state, but this film is also about heroism and bravery’.

“The Wind That Shakes the Barley stars Cillian Murphy as an Irish medical student who takes up arms against a reign of terror by the Black and Tans, British troops sent in to quell calls for independence.

I wonder if I had applied would I have gotten a role on the crew? I know a few people from college that did work on it… and a lot of it was shot in West Cork and all! ….oh well.

I Bought a K3 on eBay a few months ago and the guy that was selling it said the internal electronic lightmeter wasn’t working. I guessed that this may be down to the fact that there was no battery in the camera.

Like many lightmeters, the K3 was designed to use a mercury cell that is no longer available (the PX640).

To address this problem, k3camera.com created a Battery adapter that allows the use of a zinc-air cell in the K-3. Zinc-air cells are also known as “hearing aid batteries”, are available everywhere, and are inexpensive.

The adapter is sold in a kit that includes the precision machined brass adapter and four zinc-air cells. Instruction Sheet Only $29! (+$4 shipping in the US, $5 to Canada, $8 Elsewhere)

I decided I’d try it out and see if the lightmeter would work afterall. A few days ago it arrived in the post so I put it in to the camera and turned it on, Bingo! the needle appeared in the view finder.

Now all I have to do is get some stock and see what sort of results I get from this baby!

Will post up results when I get them.

What the feck have I been doing the past year since I finished college? Sweet feck all to be perfectly honest… okay I did shoot a short film ‘Turn’ and write maybe two or three other shorts. But is that enough? No!

At the moment I work 9 to 5 and then spend the evenings working on my own projects some not film related at all. I was looking into taking on some more non-film-related projects. But this has to stop now! I tell you why, a week from today is officially the start of Summer here. No one wants to be inside on a fine summers evening when it’s bright up ‘til 11.

But since June, July and August are the three best months that gives me a month before holidays and the real fine weather kicks in. A month of pure writing! …Oh yeah I want to squeeze in a day of shooting for ‘My Ball’ …okay a month a mainly writing with a bit of production work thrown in as well but no non film related work!! Not a THING!!

Goodbye to all my scams that were going to make me loaded (for the time being any way!)

As I’ve said an earlier post I’ve got to get some serious stuff done this summer. So a have to push all these other distractions away and concentrate on what I spent 3 years in college doing.

So My aims for this month

Fine list there to keep me going… and it all starts at 5 o’clock!

I’m working on a new project which I hope to shoot in next month or else in June with the aim of submitting it to the Cork Film Festival.

It’s called ‘My Ball’ I won’t go into it much as it will only be about 3 minutes long. I’m considering shooting on my K3 16mm camera but as I have yet to test the camera I don’t know how well it works.

Watch this space…