Comments | nerinedorman: On set... And stuff

nerinedorman

On set... And stuff

Sep 20, 2009 11:42

Yesterday morning at 4.30am I caved in and drove Thomas through to the set of Emma-O, the horror movie he's busy art directing for indie filmmaker extraordinaire, Ronnie Belcher. Firstly, let me say that filmmaking is is expensive. Even a short, twenty-minute production is costing the associated collaborators in the thousands of rands. (Nerine ( Read more... )

film-making, writing, the dead of night, khepera rising

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bittermint September 20 2009, 15:50:42 UTC

Great blurb! Except for one thing: m/m/f usually signifies a menage a trois. Just FYI...

Also, I'm glad you're not ready to kill me for those line edits. ;)

And congrats on the new contract.

nerinedorman September 20 2009, 19:38:07 UTC

Thanks... I must admit I'm a noob when it comes to content warnings so I'll mention to the blurb team manager I'm dealing with that it's not, erm, a menage... LOL!

No. I welcome those line edits because I've reached a stage where it's difficult finding people who're willing to tell me "You is making a beeeg mistake".

I'm about half done with the line edits and you've made some great suggestions.

popegrutch September 20 2009, 19:49:06 UTC

Filmmaking is expensive, AND exhausting. You don't really know the meaning of exhaustion until you've worked six straight 16-hour days as a Production Coordinator, and have one day off before it all starts up again.

That's why I got out of the biz.