I’ve been sending out books at the start of the year for reviews and a rather lovely one came out today at Sequential Tart, by Sheena McNeil.

Each new twist and turn had me fully captivated - I literally could not put it down till I’d read every last page! The art is vibrant and energetic […] Every detail adds realism to this spectacular world, and each character stands out as important and unique - each with a story to tell. […] The story is compelling and entertaining with an excellent flow that makes it fun and easy for such heavy topics of death and sadness.
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She awarded it a Grade 9 out of 10. Stunning! My report card has never been so good

In other news, today I went out to meet and interview two ‘Set Production’ Designers concerning my little film project. Everything is being shot on a budget, so the first thing we needed to do was to find a Set Designer so we can discuss costs for building the set and try to keep things affordable.

It was very educational. The two ladies I met today had a lot of experience in the industry, shooting for both Film and Television, and as I explained to them what it was I wanted to capture, in terms of Set Design, they offered a lot of advice and concepts. I was really thrilled by it all. What I thought was very humble about them, was how even though they have all this experience, they’re still very much into working on Indie projects for free, purely for the love of the challenge and to get more items on their Show-reel’s.

They were both explaining how we have to be careful with what materials we use, as everything reflects light, so we need to take that into account and take measures to stop fracture effects from the lighting. Found it extremely interesting. I’d never thought about that before, as I mainly only worried about shadows when it came to lighting. Everyone who’s approached me so far is really keen to get started on this project too, so it fills me with great confidence that I’ll have a fantastic team to work with soon enough.

My Producer has been looking into people he’d worked with before who he thinks may be suitable for the project and sending their details my way. Tonight he sent over the holy-grail of all finds. A link to a Studio he got to film in earlier today and it’s ideal for our project. We’ve been needing to find a good place for the shoot since we started talking about it. You can’t design a set if you don’t know how much space you have to work with first. Great find!

I have more interviews to conduct next Monday, then I need to move onto finding a Lighting and Camera man. Leaving the Casting till last. Oh, and I guess I can tell you now. We’re planning to film a stylised live action version of the bathroom scene from ‘The Clarence Principle’

Wish me Luck!