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Liquid Soap on the BBC news use my footage!

Liquid soap was featured on BBC points west 6:30pm edition on monday 22nd of june.
when the reporter and producer turned up we let them have a free range of the set for a bit. eventually they asked to be let up onto the rigging, i had to refuse incae they hurt themselves because of wires and ropes attached, however they asked if mark the student lighting supervisor would be able to film for them, he said yes but was immediately called down to the set and so gave me the camera, i walked around the outside of the rigging trying to get shots down into the set as the cast and filming crew were rehearsing. i think i succeeded in getting them what they wanted as they used a lot of the shots i got in their final edit that went on air.
you can watch it here !

google?

put either name of this blog into google and look down the page about half way.

if you put kranblog (ignore at the top where it says 'did you mean iran blog?) and look down six entries for my last post listing! woo hoo!
with cranblog im not that far down in 8th.
slowly working my way up the ladder to 1st place in both = more traffic, more readers and more incentive for me to write more articles.

ps. i enterd in liquid soap online soap opera and the first link was this, must have missed it at the time
and i also entered in Talking Ink but couldnt find anything relevant, i suppose it depends on the importance of a film project for it to be listed high in googles results

Liquid Soap = DRAMA?

well, some of you know i come on here to vent my frustration and anger sometimes at technology and other things. now it is the students time.
i am productio manager on liquide soap, i defer to the series producer Chris Jury and also the exec producer Nic Jeune. in the last week, a week before we start filming this coming monday 22nd june, we have had students who applied for acting roles disappear leaving us short of actors, leading to characters being cut from scripts, and today, 1 day before the first episode shoot have had another actor drop out of a medium sized but central to the story line role, we had the costume designer turn round on the monday and say she couldn't do as she was going to a festival and the scripts, though i know this is getting more and more the case in the real world too, arent all ready yet, two scripts arent at production draft yet and 3 only went to that stage on thursday afternoon.
this is stress like ive never experienced before, but it drives you to get things right even when they are all going tits up.
i do have written on a piece of paper near me at all times 'BE PREPARED FOR CHAOS' so maybe thats helping...
we can only wait and see

drama

just watching the first series of the new season of ER on C4 and am reminded about how slick and stylish a program can look when you have a big budget behind it. its obvious its got some great writers behind it and can pull in some great directors.
the thing that gets me is that its reportedly filmed in an old hospital but how can they fit in so much stuff, ie: props, cameras, sound recordists, the general clutter needed on a show like that into the corridors, i know they are wide in a hospital and america does have wider roads than here but surely the same doesnt for their hospitals?

Politicians

not sure i should put this up here, you never know when slagging politicians off how far into the future it might come back and bite you in the arse but well, in the country we are living in today why the hell not.

thank fuck jaqui smith and hazel blears have fucked off out of there at last, the two most ridiculous women in politics ever, smith and her short sighted narrow minded views on everything from drugs to supplying the army, oh and not to mention that 'claim'. blears though, what has she actually done that is worth note? oh she claimed brown was incompetent then withdrew the statement as it had been 'misconstrued' politicians at the moment make me sick. this may be a bit anti labour but also the same can be said of the tory tosspots who crowd the back benches and behave like a nest of vipers behind camerons back. they make me even sicker, they have the money to help themselves, but insist that in helping them selves to more money in relation to most of these bogus claims they have done nothing wrong!?! torys are like the republicans in the good ole u s of a. not the right mindstate for the current world.

here is a short excerpt from an article relating to the oh so exciting expenses scandal and the unrest on all of labours benches,
"The text of the rebel email - which according to reports more than 70 MPs were ready to put their names to - was leaked to the media on Wednesday night. Nobody has so far claimed authorship and it is unclear exactly how many MPs support it."
70 MPs prepared to put their names to this email but no-one to claim responsibility for authorship. will this be a bit like the tory smear campaign the other month?

hang parliament is my only answer here, devolve and re-evolve, bar all current mps under investigation or named in relation to the smears, claims and any other scandal you can think of, present new candidates, chosen by the people to stand as MPs. NOT as it is now, choosing a candidate from a political party that has already been chosen for you by said party.

infact fuck that idea too, bring on the ANARCHY.

Spring

Spring. roungh edit. first part of a collaboration fashion film. feedback appreciated