Just a quick note to say that I’ve updated Moviespot.co.uk so you can now send it a tweet (@moviespotuk) with a film title and the hashtag #moviespot and it will reply with which streaming service you can watch that movie on (if it’s available). Give it a try!… (Read more)
After a year or so of doing the rounds on the festival circuit, I thought it was high time that I made my short film with Mark Benton, Ben Shockley and Paul Kavanagh (who also wrote it) available to the public.
Note: Definitely NSFW! Strong language and a little bit of the icky red stuff.… (Read more)
A few months ago YouTube (followed by Google et al) starting offering unskippable, six second ‘Bumper’ ads to the world, and I find them rather intriguing. According to the data collected during the research phase, they proved quite effective (although it’s difficult to find more recent stats). I suspect that they are quite effective, and it’s all to do with (you guessed it!) how our brains work.… (Read more)
Continuing on from yesterday’s blog post (Why Storytelling Works), I’d thought I’d share one other interesting thing about the brain that has deep implications for storytelling.
It would seem that to get someone’s attention fully, we need to show or tell them something that does two things to their brain.… (Read more)
Having studied Religious Studies at University, I’ve always been fascinated by stories and storytelling. In fact, from a very young age, I have always been trying to either write my own, or find ways of presenting other peoples’ (for better or worse – my efforts in the late 1970’s, aged 6 or 7, to put on a stage play version of Star Wars fortunately never materialised).… (Read more)
I’ve just spent the past three and a half years (on and off) working for Eurotunnel Le Shuttle (the fastest way to cross the Channel!) as a contractor in their marketing department. I’ve have a great time working there, but alas, as these things do, my time there has run it’s course.… (Read more)
If you were a ‘fan’ of my old website, which unfortunately went the way of the Dodo after a curious mishap involving a vicar, several guns and a penguin named Larry*, you’ll know that I’m somewhat prone to unleashing bouts of creativity upon the interwebs. I’ve had a few such interludes in the past few months, which I’d thought I’d share, because I’m feeling unusually self-indulgent.… (Read more)
This is a repost, of sorts, from my old blog. I still think this is really cool, and haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere else*.
About seven years ago, I took it upon myself to attempt, purely for fun, to adapt Terry Pratchett’s ‘The Wee Free Men’ into a screenplay. At some point during the process, around the point where Tiffany finds herself in a dream not too dissimilar to Richard Dadd’s “The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke”, I took the opportunity to print a copy of Dadd’s painting to hang next to my desk.… (Read more)