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Recent Shows

I’ve been very humbled to receive several kind comments about the last few Dead End Podcasts. The comments have been about content but also the audio quality of these shows with some not realising that the hosts are not in the same room when recording. I want to write

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Digitisation Has Begun

Well, it’s taken me some time, but I have begun digitising my video tapes. As I might have mentioned before, these are tapes of raw video footage that have been shot over the years for various film projects. There are also a few old TV programmes I wanted capture.

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Longbridge life

Today, I’m off to Wolverhampton to meet up with Dave. We’re going to be talking about our podcasts, some scripts for filming, taking some photos and finally, tonight, we’re off to the Lighthouse to watch the original Nosferatu which will be cool. Thing is, I arrived at

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Dead End Shows : Episode 29 released

The latest show from Dead End Podcasts, the place for podcasts on iconic film makers, is all about the movies from Peter Jackson who brought us low budget gorefests and moved on to the lavish Lord of the Rings trilogy. A show of braindead hobbits that are actually heavenly creatures

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Review in a tweet : Social Network

Social Network : engaging tech drama that depicts ambition and the coming of he social web era. Great characterisation & amazing soundtrack

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Tweet I Came Across

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click “I agree.”

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Review in a tweet : The Road

The Road : a dark, sometimes distressing film with themes of starvation, family & isolation;solid paced direction, use of colour and sound

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Review in a tweet : Sunshine

Sunshine : a compelling sci-fi from Danny Boyle, great use of colour and soundtrack.Probably his best film so far Cillian leading a top cast

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Map of Online Communities

Came across an interesting map of online communities in 2010 on Mashable.

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Disconnect

Today I’ve been to Worcester, my home city. I’ve had dinner with my brother and had a meeting at the Volunteer Centre. Funny thing happened though. As I say, it’s my home city and I’ve always been proud of that, but today I felt disconnected from

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Review in a tweet : Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter : a snippet of 40s life with a steam train filled backdrop, beautifully filmed with a story that speaks to us all

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Review in a tweet : Rush Hour 2

Rush Hour 2 : not as funny as 1 or 3 and not particularly well directed, Chan and Tucker were fab and look out for cameo from Ken Tsang and then there’s Ziyi…

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The SEED Film

A project called SEED was set up in Worcester to raise awareness of sustainable development and the young people involved wanted to make a film to summarise the project and to illustrate their key findings. To give the film a more global perspective, some of them travelled to India to

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Review in a tweet : Fame 2009

Fame (2009) : Like watching a 1.5hr long music video but some nice cinematography and careful avoidance of ‘ghetto stereotyping’

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Dead End Podcasts

I’m really pleased to blog that today the all new Dead End Podcast website went live. The Dead End Podcasts are collection of podcasts that I am involved in all about film. We do a bi-weekly look at an iconic film maker, we do drama based shows and a

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Cromarty

Now, I thought Cromarty was a bad Terminator but it turns out it’s actually a rather pleasant village on Black Island. Location:Marine Terrace,Cromarty,United Kingdom

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Filming Writer's Block

I should have written this a while ago but I thought I’d leave it and wait until it had cooked through my brain. Last week, I helped make a film, well I say “help” but I actually started helping an hour or so after not recording the audio and

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Nairn

We all know about fishermen and their ongoing struggle to supply fish to us, but few recognise the role of women in the fish industry. This sculpture celebrates the fisherwives, as they were called. These women would prepare nets, tackle and then smoke and sell the fresh caught fish. Location:

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George Orwell Audiobooks

In my teens, I picked up a book on our communal bookcase at the top of the stairs called Nineteen Eighty Four. I started to read it and a few pages in, I simply couldn’t put it down. No big deal you think, but I wasn’t someone who

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Dead End Techcasts : Episode 4

Episode 4 : Camera-tastic Cameratastic – episode 4 brings a whole bunch of news items, mostly centering on the latest developments in cameras. We also talk about Project Canvas and HTML 5.

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Sneak Peek At Dead End Podcasts

I’ve been working a lot lately on the new website for Dead End Podcasts. Just the for the uninitiated, I do a regular podcast show with Alan and Dave about film. We do a show that’s about an hour or more long, a drama based one that Al

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Light, Sound and Capture

I’m really looking forward to next weekend. I’m meeting up with my good friend Dave to help make a short film. It’s called Writer’s Block and Dave is directing while Alan and a guy called Tony are acting. My role is to, well, do whatever has

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Review in a tweet : The Fountain

The Fountain : Intense but thoughtful with great use of sodium colour. Good use of mortifs and great acting by Jakeman well worth watching

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Alien Anthology Explored

Last month, I mentioned the pending release of the Alien Anthology. Amazon has now just listed the contents of all the discs in the set. It’s pretty serious: DVD Description 6 x BD Discs: • 4 film discs • Two versions of each movie (Directors Cut or Special Edition & Theatrical

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The Great Digitisation Project 2010

Well it’s a few years late in the coming, but today I took a bit start to my Digitisation Project. This project is something I’ve been needing to do for a while. It’s basically a de-clutter exercise where I try to digitise old stuff to and free