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Name this film later...

Never thought I would be doing this, but as of today I am a blog wanker. I was given Spike Lee journal book for ‘Do The Right Thing’ and I thought fuck it why not. Thanks Dan Will from The Mill.

To let you in on the story so far, I have completed one short film called ‘Hungry Dogs’ (youtube it). And, am currently filming another short called ‘Gold Diggers’ (delayed due to conflicting schedules as well as a camera that was thieved). 

However, Andrei (DP/Editor (you will no doubt be hearing more about)) proposed the idea, why are we fucking about; let’s just make a proper film. So here we are.

For the film itself, I had a brilliant idea to raise the finance through the only way possible other than some c**t giving us a load of wonga: gambling. 

NOTE: We will take the wonga off any c**t; we just don’t know any to give us the wonga. 

So I said to Dylan (Producer (also his birthday today)) I am going to put a bag of sand (£1,000) into gambling accounts and we will raise 10 bags of sand (£10,000) through gambling. Now, here is the tricky part we were going to do this though one of our school mates who is a self proclaimed gambling expert. We think Dami may have a slight problem, but his self confidence could have you believe anything. 

Anyway as it goes, I had my cousins wedding at the time so was a bit stuck, only had £900 (which is the most I have ever saved)  so had to ask Dylan if he wanted to jib in and thankfully he did. Cut a long story short we got to the peak of £2,600 and Dami fucked the money on a bet he ‘never meant to do’. You can follow the progress here —–> https://www.instagram.com/bootsy_brogans/ & https://twitter.com/BootsyBrogans

After losing out on a grand between us we are now back to square one. But still thinking the money will come from somewhere. We have one fella who I met through Dan Will from The Mill, who said to me once about getting finance when he was steaming but also said it when he was sober. So once we lost the gambling pot I emailed him straight away and he got back to me, fairplay.

Okay so that is the main bulk of it for now, a lot of shit talked there but had to be said for the first post to paint some sort of picture.

Oh yeah and how could I forget, I am still working in construction for my old man. Now I am not on the tools as such but I am ‘operations’ man (I title I gave myself lol). I basically go around every site and organise: what materials/labour they need; what works will need to be done; short term programmes; speak to any contractors if needs be about works and problems; look after any yard issues and problems.

So whilst I work from 8am till 6pm trying that I sneak in time to write the script and that malarky. At this time of writing have over 45 pages written of the script.