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Search for Cancer Hair Concept Art Launched on TalentHouse

28/4/2013

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We are still in the very early stages of bringing Cancer Hair to the screen. One of the things of key importance to us is the ability to showcase what the film is about to potential funders. The easiest, and best, way to do this is via Concept Art.

Good concept art captures the essence of the film without giving too much away. It brings out the themes and concepts (hence the name concept art) of the piece into one image. For me, the reason it is so key is that it puts an image to the film before the image themselves have been captured via a camera lense.

We have teamed up with creative powerhub Talenthouse to find WONDERFUL concept art for Cancer Hair. Amazingly, like actually amazingly, Nokia have sponsored our creative call and so we are pleased to announce there is even some cash in it for the artist/designer or expert illustrator who manages to a) capture our attention and b) promote the heck out of their entry via their own social networks.

Let me tell you a bit about Talenthouse. You really should consider using it, if like us you are looking for great art or a way to collaborate with creatives around the world.

Basically, it is where creative people meet and collaborate with each other, with brands, with projects and get paid and recognised for their work.  

The concept is quite simple. You put out a creative call via Talenthouse – for in our case – Concept Art. Talenthouse promotes this to their community of artists around the world and if they are interested in your project,  they will submit something.

You can choose the “best” submission for you. But the best bit is that there is social element to the voting on talenthouse. This means that the artist can use his or her social capital to promote their work, or your project. That means you benefit not just from their great art but the halo effect of their friends, and followers, knowing about your project. Genius stuff.

If you are an artist, designer or illustrator I’d love for you to go our call for submissions and enter something.  Cancer Hair Concept Art Call On Talenthouse.

If you are a producer, director why not have a look at Talenthouse as something you can work with as part of your engagement going forward.


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Cancer Hair Storyboards 

10/4/2013

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Storyboards for Cancer Hair 

25/3/2013

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I'm really delighted to see the mock ups of the Cancer Hair storyboards this weekend - I'm only going to share one but needless to say it good, and the final result will be bloody good too!
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Me For My Father Shortlisted for BBC Opening Lines 

15/3/2013

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I love it when a plan comes together. Fresh off the back for being in the top 100 scripts for the 12/13 Collabor8te scheme, my little short story/script "Me for my Father" is now shortlisted for the BBC Opening Lines strand. This is where up to 3 short stories are turned into Radio Plays for newbie writers such as myself by the BBC.

I'm really pleased about this. "Me for My Father" is going to be made this year with Producer Sean Langdon, hopefully where it was set, in and around Lanarkshire, Scotland.


It's about a young lad, on the verge of becoming a teenager, who has to take his fathers place as a pallbearer at a family funeral. The funeral, and the subsequent wake, brings a mysterious stranger into the family circle and dark, deep secrets are revealed. Told through the young lad's eyes, its about being an outsider in your own family and feeling like you never quite belong. 
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The State of Greenock

15/3/2013

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Just goes to show what a good ear for dialogue and a creative brain can do. This former LSFer is now nominated for a Bafta because of this. Well done Gavin Grant - visit Gavin's website here
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Getting Your Vision In Focus

1/3/2013

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After weeks of hard work, blood, sweat and a few tears we are now getting ready to pitch Cancer Hair to the Film London/Eastern Edge Film Fund.

Exciting, and frankly, nerve racking stuff.

The one thing that has come bounding out of this process for me how clear our vision for the film has become.

From a script on its umpteenth redraft, with solid characters that have a journey throughout the story, to the step by step storyboards, from Mood Boards declaring the look and feel of the film, through to the production schedule - we have pulled up the bonnet of this project and really tinkered with the engine.

I’ve always found deadlines a great clarifier. They allow focus your mind and in turn your mind focuses on what you need to do to make it happen for that specific timescale. This has been no different. If we hadn’t had the Eastern Edge deadline we’d likely have drifted until after Easter with a vague idea that this was going to be our project this year. Instead, regardless of the decision from the panel, we have a short film – budgeted, written, storyboarded and ready to go.

And so, to the pitch.


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Developing Cancer Hair for Eastern Edge Film Fund

11/2/2013

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So, I started the year with a bit of good news. My short film script Cancer Hair had been shortlisted for the Eastern Edge Film Fund. Eastern Edge is part of Film London. Essentially the shortlisting meant the film was in with a fighting chance of receiving a £3000 grant to make it.

It has been an interesting process. We’ve met several times with the Eastern Edge teams and put the script through the wringer a couple of times. We have an interview and pitch in a few weeks but the paperwork – script, budget and schedule are submitted. No going back now.

As a writer I have found the process incredibly enlightening. Even though the script was at about fourth draft when it was submitted, I have – subsequent to notes – written from scratch two entirely different takes on the same story.

As the script is only 10 pages long I tend to subscribe to the page 1 rewrite theory. What does this mean? This means I forget the script I have and go back to the drawing board, draft after draft, honing and refining and trying to get the description and dialogue down to the essence of the idea. Some writers find this a massive waste of time. I find it works well for me as I tend to focus on and retell the parts of the story that move things forward.

Regardless of whether we make it with Eastern Edge and Film London I think the script is at a far better, more producible place than it was when we first went into the process all down to the development process. And development is hell, regardless of whether it is a 2 page short or a 122 page feature – people asking you questions about your work that you can’t answer is embarrassing, but believe me it is not as embarrassing as making a script that has giant plot holes and drifting dialogue.

We are going to make the script into a film anyway, but the Eastern Edge/Film London money would make the film inevitable in the first half of 2013.

Fingers Crossed!

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Hadley TK 421 Short Film 

10/2/2013

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Beautiful and Thoughtful Short Film "Coward"

5/2/2013

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"COWARD" from Stephen Murphy on Vimeo.

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Fresh Guacamole - Oscar Nominated Short 

2/2/2013

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