Noir-ish Project (66 mins, UK, 2018) Bleak, melancholy, neorealist feature film masquerading as film noir. A couple of low-lifes try to make some quick cash but end up just waiting around. Noirish Project is a melancholy and gently comic feature film about Billy, who steals his family’s...
Read MoreThe next work to be done on Noirish Project will be scenes near the end of the film. They aim to show Jimmy's isolation and aimlessness. There will also be no dialogue in these scenes, everything about the character will be shown physically here. Naturally,...
Read More[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Following on from my piece last week on Idealism, I wanted to define better what I thought idealism actually was, and came up with the following; Idealism is belief in an idea, which goes beyond career, or accolade, or material gain, and it is...
Read MoreThe freak weather has once again forced us to move back the scenes we were going to shoot for Noirish Project. However, rather than do nothing, we have decided to improvise a new short film which will serve as backstory for the main feature film,...
Read More[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] I had originally thought that the script for Noirish Project was very simple and slight - although there are several moments of high drama, mostly the script is laid-back, often the characters are engaged in small talk. However, as I've done more and more...
Read More[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Idealism is an extraordinarily powerful thing. It can inspire us to undertake great works, overcome enormous obstacles, and provide our lives with meaning and direction and energy - we all know the feeling when we do something which we truly believe in. And...
Read More[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] We had a wonderfully intense and productive rehearsal today. What I'm talking about here is script analysis, which means sitting around with the script and thrashing out what we think the characters are literally doing in the scene, reducing the scene down to...
Read More[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Work on Noirish Project continues apace...
Read More[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Mostly, we are making Noirish Project from a fully crafted script. However, there are certain sections in the film which we will be improvised. I know in advance the broad purpose of these sections in terms of the storytelling, but the specific content...
Read More[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] As many of you probably already know, filming began on Noirish Project recently, and, generally, it went very smoothly. We all had worked together before, and we all wanted to work on this material, which created, despite the early start on a cold...
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