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I’ve been trying to get a bunch of things done these past couple of weeks – one of which is a project we want to launch on the crowdfunding site Indie Go-Go. The launch should have been last week and then was postponed to tomorrow. While I’m still going to give meeting that deadline the ol’ college try you’ll all have to remember – I didn’t finish college.

But I am gonna finish this, dammit. I just need to catch a couple of more shots and then finish the edit. Piece of cake. Yeah right. Famous last words.

To give you some idea of the nonsense I’ve gotten myself into here’s a glimpse at the script and my usual thumbnail scribbles for storyboards. I use these to keep track of the multiple elements that have to come together within any given shot and it serves me well in the edit too.

When we were shooting the Ruffus television series I’d often make up these thumbnail sketches on the studio floor – between shots. What a dickead! Shot list? What the fuck is that?

An average moment during the shoot went something like this: “Stand over there and pretend you’re looking at a door. Perfect. Roll tape. Cut. That’s a keeper. Moving on. What? Whaddaya mean: What just happened? Keep up for fuck’s sake. Next set up!”

It was actually a little more organized than that – but not much – and certainly not by me.

This Indie Go-Go pitch is the last of these multi-role videos I’ll be making for a while. It hurts my brain – and my arm. I’m getting old. Next time will involve a lot more people – and a lot more talent.

Hopefully it will all be done before the end of tomorrow.

We shall see.

Cheers.