April 2009
7 posts
“HARD CANDY”
Shoot diary excerpt HARD CANDY
Hayley was a serial killer, like Hannibal Lecter, only much younger. Everything was black and white, I had a hundred notes, and from the official green light we ended up with only three weeks’ preproduction before we started rehearsals. Here what seemed so rich on the page seemed to have occasional stumbling “movie beats,” and as we found them we eliminated them, one by one. The movie I had in my...
March 2009
11 posts
“Never underestimate the power of an idiot.”
This was a music video treatment for the song “This Year’s Love” by David Gray.
I decided rather than pitch a whole video idea I would write a short story as a starting point.
MAPS TO THE STARS
by DAVID SLADE
Monday 11am and John Gilmore Harris stood under a small dark cloud that poured out a thick deluge upon him. He looked up at the otherwise blue sky without...
Shoot diary for David Gray “This Year’s Love
Powering through the Palmdale desert in a trail of dust, the sky is blue black and we are driving at 65 miles per hour. At the wheel is Karen O‘Brien producer and wife to Jo Willems the Director of Photography who is sitting in the back with 1st assistant director Martin Serene. My head is spinning a little and I backtrack just a single a week and I get to..
Friday 23rd February
Arriving in LA and...
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JUNE 2000 OPM "HEAVEN IS A HALF-PIPE" music video...
June 2000 OPM shoot day Vasquez Rocks
8AM
I have to test out the harness rig the arm of which stands a good thirty feet above the sandy rocks, the wires hanging down to a corset harness designed to suspend a human off the ground with the minimum of bulk and the maximum of pain.
We have to test the harness to make sure the camera is in the right place. We strap up Jamaal – a particularly useless...