Tabula Rasa

Last year I talked briefly about making a short film. I had a script which has undergone several rewrites but since then I have managed to procrastinate amazingly well. In fact, I am thinking of putting myself forward for the Procrastinator of the year award except that I may have already missed the deadline.

Anyway, one of the big problems I faced (beyond the inability to just do it) was the fact that it was only two minutes long. Not necessarily a problem, but I felt there should be more of a point.

Enter the BBC. No, they haven’t given me a load of money to make a film but they have an ongoing challenge to make a movie that lasts for a minute or less. This is fantastic and exactly the type of thing that my script can be adapted for. There’s a huge diversity in the standard of the films that have already been submitted and a huge range of subjects. Consequently, I have rewritten my script and have started storyboarding it with a mind to getting it done very soon. (All I need is a video camera – quite an important bit of kit really.)

There is potentially quite a lot of mileage out of this one minute movie malarkey. I have an idea for another script already. What about you lot? Any of you creative people (and I know you’re out there) with an idea or two for minute long stories? Perhaps we can do a series of them?

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