We will be filming the second half of a nightclub scene this coming Sunday. If anyone is interested in being an extra in this, please leave a message on our message board and we will get back to you. Publicity stills from the night will appear in the gallery pages very soon.
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Preview screening in London - 4th Sept
(taken from www.shootingpeople.org )
Sunday, 4 Sep
SHOOTING PEOPLE FEATURES @ THE PHOENIX IN FINCHLEY, 14:00 - 18:00, £5
Location: The Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley, London
Contact: Ben Blaine/Paul Homer, paul@phoenixcinema.co.uk, 020 8442 0442
PHOENIX CINEMA AND SHOOTING PEOPLE TEAM UP TO PRESENT ‘FROM SHORTS TO FEATURES’
The Phoenix Cinema, North London’s leading independent cinema, has secured funding through Film London’s Audience...
The showing of Diary of a Bad Lad was a big hit at the Kino Film Festival at the AMC cinema in Manchester. We've got transcriptions of what people were saying before and after the movie was played. Amongst them, filmmaker Bruno Coppola (MP3 attached 848k), festival programmer Steve Balshaw and NWPD director Mat Archer.
BrunoCopollaBadLadintromorecomp.mp3
BrunoCopollaBadLadintromorecomp.mp3
BrunoCopollaBadLadintromorecomp.mp3
BrunoCopollaBadLadintromorecomp.mp3
For more info, click below...
http://pleasedsheep.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=65
And, be there to witness something truly different. :!:
Welcome to the new Pleased Sheep/Diary of a Bad Lad message boards.
Get posting! ;)
We really needed a new forum I think ~ other one wasn't very good...
Filmmakers Michael Booth and Jonathan Williams will be answering audience questions and answers about their film Diary of a Bad Lad ~ along with other 'Guerrilla Filmmakers' including Chase Johnston Lynch (One Way Love), Bad Lad cohort Joe O'Byrne (Lookin' For Lucky) and Alex Ganley (Getting Off). Moderating is film director/critic Alex Cox. Preview footage from all of the films will be shown (15 mins per movie) The location is the AMC cinema in Manchester, 27th February 2005. Be there...
The Lancashire Evening Telegraph have now followed on from the MEN and published an article about our 99% completed feature length movie Diary of a Bad Lad. We just wish they could've published some pictures of Roxy to go along with it. Read on for a scan of the image. Also in this newsflash, Birty sends in an email about the latest 93 minute cut of the movie.
SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE TO DOWNLOAD THE ATTACHED SCAN
And Birty sent an email to Michael about the latest 93 min cut...
Producer Jonathan Williams says he didn't have time for conflicts whilst making the upcoming 'Diary of a Bad Lad.' He also explains why the project was so long in production. A frank exchange with WIDESHOT's James Macgregor.
Jon Williams, Underground Filmmaker
Film: Diary Of A Bad Lad
Blackburn, North West
by James MacGregor
The film is about what happened to documentary filmmaker Barry Lick and his crew as they attempted to make Diary of a Bad Lad, 'a video-diary about some really...
Okay so it's not that much further West, but Jonathan Williams and Paul Gordon will be attending the North West Producers & Directors (www.nwpd.org.uk) meeting this evening in Liverpool. North West Producers & Directors (NWPD) is an affiliation of media professionals dedicated to the support & development of the moving image industries. Fun & japes will almost definitely ensue...
Pleased Sheep director Michael Booth wrote:
This is a late update. The script for our new project is now complete and pretty much locked. It's a black-comedy splatter movie about a serial killer, and that's all we can say about it at the moment. We have visited a special effects company (who are ready to go on it) and it's all looking good.
We will be approaching investors pretty soon and will be looking into getting some horror genre icons involved in doing some cameo appearances in the...
Mike is currently hard at work on two feature length screenplays (one of which is a zombie movie). It's hoped that one of the features will be in production next year. One of the short films is scheduled to be shot later on this year. The futures looking bloodier.
As well as working on Diary of a Bad Lad (www.bad-lad.com), Michael (Booth) is beavering away eagerly on his next couple of scripts.
One is actually being written whilst one is at synopsis form.
The first, is a romantic 'black'...
Problems with our webhost wiretags.com (they will not return email) means that we have had to become pleasedsheep.com . Please log on using this address now.
Note from pleasedsheep.com: These are comments from people who saw rough cut and unedited footage at BBC North in 2002. Comments should not be seen as any reflection on the final product.
The name's Mark although I appreciate there was so much going on on Wednesday night it was very easy to forget. First of all let me congratulate you and your team on one of the most entertaining pieces of cinematography I have seen in a long time. The scene with the "dead" body was priceless. In my...
We had the longest film on and it got the most laughs out of all the films shown. Why the hell do they always ruin the sound at these events though???
<p>Our short film, Drop Outs was shown at the Cornerhouse (<a href="http://www.pleasedsheep.com/modules/xgallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album01&id=aaa"><img src="http://www.pleasedsheep.com/modules/xgallery/cache/albums/album01/aaa.thumb.jpg" width="150" height="110" border="1"></a></td>
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Dropouts, our film about six unemployed slackers who end up eating their dog, has been chosen for inclusion in the Exposures Film Festival in Manchester on Dec 5th.
'Dropouts' starred Louise Brand, Paul Birtwistle, Roxanne Gregory, Abigail Gilbraith, Kevin Marklew and John Yates
production assistant John Yates assistant producer Philip Hargreaves director of photography Paul Gordon producer, writer, editor & director Michael Booth
Diary of a Bad Lad, our first feature length project, commenced shooting today.
Film Threat Magazine was created in 1985. For over a decade Film Threat has covered cult films, underground shorts, alternative films and independent features. Film Threat’s mission is to champion the increasingly popular explosion of independent and underground films. The magazine was retired in 1997 but lives on in cyberspace. Now Film Threat writes a feature on Bad Lad.
To see the article, CLICK HERE
Here is the article for posterity. Taken from www.filmthreat.com...
10/6/2000 - PRICE OF FAME - off-line AVID AVR 24 edit finished. Now waiting for final sound mix and on-line AVR 77 AVID edit.
12/5/2000 - PRICE OF FAME now in production - two days down, two more to go.
29/4/2000 - We are now officially - pleasedsheep.co.uk. Log on using this name (www.pleasedsheep.co.uk) from now on.
20/4/2000 - Making short film ON THE SOFA (script by Jonathan Williams) sometime between May & June.
6/3/2000 - Sound Engineer Simon Auster to work on featured 'song' for...