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The Great Acting Blog: “Go For What You Want”

08.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

It's amazing how many people hold back from going for the things they really want because they're worried that other people might think they don't deserve to have them. The reality is, these "other people" are not as obsessed about what we're doing (or intend to...

Noirish Project Blog: “Podcast On The Sound Design For The Film”

07.10.2013 , Noirish Project , 0 Comments

"you've got machines humming in the background, it's kind of bleak and industrial and I wanted to kind of heighten that." In the first of a series of podcasts, I talk with sound artist, Jay Harris, about his work on the soundscape for Noirish Project. The conversation...

The Great Acting Blog: “Professional Boundaries Prevent Harm”

07.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I was struck recently when in an interview, an actress said of sex scenes she had done in a recent movie:"it was kind of humiliating sometimes, I was feeling like a prostitute."I don't know about you but I didn't go into acting in order to...

Noirish Project Blog: “A New Chapter In British Cinema”

06.10.2013 , Noirish Project, Uncategorized , 0 Comments

Whether anyone loves or hates Noirish Project is out of our control.One thing is certain though: it's going to open up a whole new chapter in British cinema history. Subscribe and get email updates about the film’s progress...

The Great Acting Blog: “Acting Is An Illusion”

06.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The character is an illusion created in the mind of the viewer by the juxtaposition of the intentions of the actor and the fiction of the script. The character is not real. Macbeth is not real. Jaws is not real. Hannibal Lector is not real,...

The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Wait For Permission”

05.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Always strange when actors who are out of work say they're writing scripts in order to stay busy. Nobody gave them permission to write scripts but they do so anyway. Yet, when it comes to acting they feel that they need to wait to be...

The Great Acting Blog: “Lets Give Ourselves A Pat On The Back”

04.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Sometimes we can get so caught up in the minutiae of day to day tasks that we can no longer see the woods from the trees. We get so wrapped up in the workload of getting a production off the ground or in the endless...

Noirish Project Blog: “Detrashified”

03.10.2013 , Noirish Project , 0 Comments

With Noirish Project, I wanted to get away from impressive, domineering cinema, which exists merely as a showcase for itself, and sees the audience as simply an appendage to the career's of the filmmakers. Noirish Project offers no loud emotionalism nor any of the ultra-realistic-extreme-violence...

Terrors Will Play In Texas

03.10.2013 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

Delighted that HSP: THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE TERRORS OF THE MIND has been selected to screen at the 2013 South Texas Underground Film (STUFF2013), October 3rd – 6th....

The Great Acting Blog: “A Lack Of Confidence?”

03.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The debate about how much space a director should give to an actor within a production rages on. Some say that the actor should do whatever the hell the director tells them to do while others think that manipulation is direction. One thing is certain...

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