Exciting blog update and film completion action

Yes, this is a shockingly overdue update. to cut a long story short, the film finally got finished off.

If you want a slightly longer version:

1. I spent ages knocking an initial cut together – this was met with comments like “is that it” and “where’s the tap-dancing scene, you bastard?”

2. I spent even longer editing it some more, adding sound, captions and trying to cut out all the bits in the background where the director was shouting abuse at people.

3. We showed the film as part of the first exciting leamington underground cinema event. I was most surprised to find that I was not chased from the building by an angry mob.

4. A small number of exclusive DVDs were produced and were sold in record breaking time.

5. Looked at the possibility of sending it off for other film nights and festivals.

6. Realised that this was going to cost an absolute fortune, so up loaded the film to Vimeo – but will make a higher quality version available soon, probably via torrent sites and on Blu-ray – and almost certainly containing the legendary Director’s/Producer’ commentary track.

If you want to have a look, please click the unoriginally named “Watch the film” tab above.

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The Toilet Story – Trailer One

Here you go…

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The best trailer ever

With about two thirds of our exhausting, punishing and mostly quite damp filming schedule complete I am starting to knock together a trailer. Trying to do do something entertaining in its own right, like all the best trailers are. Speaking of which – this takes some beating:

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We were in the lion on a friday night…

…so begins the original story that the film is based on, you can have a read of it here: http://www.paper-jam.co.uk/articles/toilet-story

Few things to note here:

  1. Be glad I decided against using the full version of the sweetcorn story in the final screenplay
  2. How poor the sentence construction and grammar is
  3. That I wrote it seven years ago – it has taken seven fucking years to actually get round to doing this, Terence Malick and the Stone Roses could have sorted it quicker.
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Scene 1: INT. THEPUB. EVENING

Welcome to the commencement of The Toilet Story blog – my attempt to document the journey of this pub-based fable from grubby little internet story to fully fledged cinematic spectacle.

More very shortly.

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