Today I finished the short proposal I wanted to get done before Sarah went away to Tribeca in New York so that she can show some people there. It’s a series for late teens and young adults. I managed to get together an outline of what it was, a sample of some script, some character bios, and a little animation example to show how it would all potentially look.

Then I had a little discussion with Sarah about where to take it (not actually take it, but you know) next and so the plan is too…

1. Write more script.
2. Introduce new characters.
3. Develop the treatment a little more.

This is all in time to take it to Annecy where I will try and meet some people at MIFA and maybe also to take to Edinburgh.

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The film I co-directed in my second year at university with Joe Paine (the musician for both Keith and Francis), Satifactory, has been re-edited into a music video for Joe Paine’s band, ok (the same band who do the music for my icancolourin animations), and NME has listed it as number 3 in their Top New Videos Of The Week.

The original film itself has been selected for the Nantucket Film Festival too. And I think somewhere else but I’m not sure.

Have changed the website a bit again. Still not sure about it. The script is from Keith Reynolds. I found this, from back in 2007, while looking for it:

Scott Johnson was a big part of my life back in 2007 – but if it continued onto recent months you would probably see a straight, horizontal line which dipped severely in January when he didn’t want to meet me in Sundance. This is how I like to remember him though.

There is also now a newsletter you can sign up to and get an e-mail when there is a new film or series I’ve done which you can see. Please subscribe (it’s on the left and on the contact page). I think these unsubstantial updates are a good indication that I need something else to do. I’m slowly working on the series proposal and attempting to write some dialogue for it but finding it hard as it is just a thing that seems unaccomplishable at the moment.

Maybe I will go back to working on my film idea.

Some good news though is that Francis Cooper has been accepted to be represented by the British Council.

Am spending my time working on an idea for a TV series. Someone bought the rights to Keith Reynolds in France so that was good timing.

No other news.

Arthur Cox got some nice DVDs printed of Francis Cooper for festival submissions and then also hopefully to later give out at those festivals – I thought they looked nice. Here are some pictures of them including a sneak peak of award winning writer, director and animator; Matthew Walker’s balding head^*:

^*Norwood 2.

This incredible website made it possible for an old interview with the late (but award winning) writer, director and animator Matthew Walker to be reconstructed with stunning accuracy: