Lincoln

Almost failed at making some American style pancakes this morning, first bunch I did were borderline burnt before it dawned on me that I was on too high a heat to cook on. Second batch looked a little something like this:

Admittedly, they didn't look THAT god, but they were blooming tasty, filled my stomach up a plenty before going out to see Lincoln.

Typically I invest a lot of confidence in Steven Spielberg to make a brilliant and entertaining movie, like Jaws or Jurassic Park. While Lincoln was technically brilliant with some great acting and cinematography, it sure as hell wasn't very entertaining. The first half was pretty dull since I have little to no knowledge of American history so a lot of the dialogue went right over my head. But towards the second half the film picked up a lot of momentum and managed to sway me into enjoying it a bit more. For a more in-depth review tune into our podcast in the next few days as it's our film of the week to review! 

Midway through a dull week

Taught cineclub and made pasta for dinner, these were the honest highlights of my day. While nothing special I have just enjoyed some more 'me time' while watching Life on Mars. Did some scripting for our new sketch as well this evening, tried to put in as many funny lines as possible and its got a premise that'll surely make you giggle.

Final interview today!

Busy day of interviews. Once again, Mum and I went on down to Bournemouth for my final interview for TV production. This was my first choice uni and course so I made the whole day count. We were formally interviewed, given a filming practical task (in which I was the director) and a film critique, overall I feel that I did exceptionally well in all the categories and hope to hear good things. Whole thing took about 4 hours, not including travel times so yes, I am a bit knackered but I can have a nice day off tomorrow to watch more Life on Mars! 

Way of the Warrior

Mark and myself gathered some ideas together for scripting and we have got 2 devilishly funny films in the making now, more info on that when we finish the next stage of writing. A few weeks back we uncovered 'The Raven Interactive DVD game' at a boot sale, since we were all such ironic fans of the show when we were younger we snatched up the game for zero pennies (it was free since the disc was so scratched.) The game worked fine in our DVD player though and we were howling with laughter over the low quality of the game and decided to write up the rules for a drinking game for it. That will be a lot of fun the next opportunity we get!

Guest Star at our laser party

Work was a little calmer today, but I really chose the wrong time to get off my break, had I been 10 seconds later I could have avoided cleaning up some child's vomit from the cafe's carpet area. Despite that slight unpleasantry we were graced with the presence of a local celebrity. We hosted his nephew's Birthday party and he shares the same name as me: Theo Walcott! It was very exciting for us behind the scenes as some of the people I worked with were desperate for his autograph (and ended up getting it, he was very pleased to give them out.) Some of us even got a photo with him since he just felt like being a bit of a legend. Morale and productivity had never been as high as it was tonight. 

Sketch surplus

Back to work after a 2 week gap thanks to the snow. Kinda felt like I was thrown into the deep end a bit since it was so busy and I was constantly on my toes. We coped really well however, despite the literal mountain of washing up we had to go through. Mark and myself have come up with a small handful of sketch ideas recently, these are the kind of films that will be quick, easy and fun to make so stay tuned for details about them within the next week!

Filmcast Season Two