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Nearly One Year On
Well, it’s almost a year since I started this blog and released Raiding the Lost Ark, so to mark the occasion, I checked out my domain stats for the first time. To be honest, I […]
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Credit Where Credit is Due
Today, I starting adding credits to the end of Inside Jaws. It soon became apparent that I should have been doing this since I began the project. I thought I had compiled a list somewhere […]
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Backup Backup Backup
Following the loss of about 70% of my files during the creation of Star Wars Begins, I clearly understand the importance of backing up. So, for both Raiding the Lost Ark and Inside Jaws, I’ve […]
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Donations to Charity
As you know, or should know by now, goodness me I’ve been banging on about it for long enough… I do not make any money on these filmumentaries. That was never my intention and never […]
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Message from Colonel Dietrich
One of the great things about creating these filmumentaries is making contact with the very people that starred in the films or helped to put them on film as a member of the crew. I’ve […]
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Making Slow Progress
Two nights ago I watched the first third of Inside Jaws (so far). It is clear that this is once again a different kind of filmumentary. Whilst I’ll be using all the available material in […]
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The Imperative to Preserve
Many of my fellow fan editors feel an absolute imperative to preserve. Whether it’s Garrett Gilchrists restorative edits of Star Wars or Puggo’s 16mm and 8mm restorations or Adywan’s brave and successful efforts to preserve the […]
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A Shark Is Not Just For Christmas
A while ago, my family and I decided that we should do the secret Santa thing at Christmas. Rather than spending a fortune on each other and on the kids, we now pick a name […]
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Back at Sea!
Tomorrow, 3rd December 2012, marks my first day of work on Inside Jaws for a couple of months. My (paid) work has taken me around the world for the past thirteen years. It’s difficult enough […]
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Aspects of Fandom
One of the only other areas of Star Wars that I’ve always loved is the range of vintage action figures. So I recently dug out my collection from the loft and thought about a way […]
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Popcorn Taxi Screening
Once again, thanks to the power of social media and the coverage which Star Wars Begins and Raiding the Lost Ark received, I was contacted from ‘down under’ by Popcorn Taxi. They are a Sydney based film […]
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Film Festival
There’s nothing quite like hearing your film is part of the Phoenix Comicon Film Festival Official Selection to lift your spirits when you’re stuck at home with a virus. It appears I’ve been incubating the […]