Not signed in (Sign In)

Categories

Google ads

Vanilla 1.0.3 is a product of Lussumo. More Information: Documentation, Community Support.

General chat: Odd request - possibly first of many

Bottom of Page

1 to 20 of 20

  1.  
    • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2007
     
    Dear All (couldn't think what to put here, was going to put stroudgreeners and then thought it would be lame. Another discussion perhaps. Anyway),

    I am starting filming shorts for my college course and am art director (props monkey) for one of the productions. I don't suppose that anyone has (and would be willing to lend me) the following:

    audio cassette tapes, the things that pre-dated CDs. I need loads of them, enough to fill a cupboard.

    2 x cassette walkmans with a record function (not necessarily in working order, just have to have a visible record button).

    I will be very careful with anything lent to me and will return it all after the bank holiday.

    Thank you!
    • CommentAuthorPete
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2007
     
    Andy had all the tapes. Can't help.
    • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2007
     
    we had a clear out of the loft and the tapes went (apart from a lavinia jones single that andy is strangely partial to!)
    • CommentAuthorColette
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2007
     
    Other half has several shoeboxes of tapes in the loft (mostly recorded ones, I think. I might be wrong though). I'm sure I could smuggle them out to you without him even noticing (although I'm fairly confident he'd be happy to loan them out to a careful borrower anyway, in fact, he'd probably leap at the opportunity to justify having refused to throw them away when we moved...)
    • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTimeApr 26th 2007
     
    Colette, that would be fantastic! Sorry not to get back to you straight away, I have spent most of today standing at the bottom of a stairwell stopping people from interrupting filming. Ah, the glamorous life of a student.

    If you're sure it's no problem then please can I take you up on the offer? Are you around this weekend? I could pop by your place or we could see if we could get a stroudgreen posse together and meet up for a drink - kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.
    • CommentAuthorLiz
    • CommentTimeApr 26th 2007
     
    I've got some tapes in my shed too - about a Selfridges bag full, I think...
    • CommentAuthorIan
    • CommentTimeApr 26th 2007
     
    I have a couple of shelves full if necessary - plenty of cure & smiths which I understand is the stock in trade of student films...
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007 edited
     

    What (surely set in mid 80's) plot line requires cassette tapes and big shiny record buttons?

    I went on a script writing course once, I felt like killing myself by the end of the first session and left when everyone went for a coffee break. It was possibly the fault of Shallow Grave just being released but everyone was writing stories involving hotel rooms and suitcases full of money.

    • CommentAuthorColette
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
     
    No problem - am around most of the weekend (saturday evening and most of sunday I think). You can e-mail me (colettemilward@eiu.com) to fix something up, as I'm not convinced everyone else is going to be that interested in the logistics of tape loaning...
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
     

    The more films I see, the easier screenwriting looks.

    Couple this thought with my view that there aren't enough films about ninjas and I've got a productive way to spend my afternoon....

    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
     

    Surely a film about ninjas would require more storyboarding than scripting?

    • CommentAuthorPete
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
     
    @David: Ghostdog?
    • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
     
    Thank you everyone! Colette, I'll email you. Liz, I'll see you tomorrow anyway! Ian, thank you for the offer and if I still haven't got enough, can I get back to you?

    Many thanks again!

    Andy and David and Pete - yup.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
     

    i think it would need a few cod-philosophical speeches (like in the Matrix) that would raise it above a standard comic book.

    For example, there would definitely be a scene where the ninja's grey bearded mentor, who has been fatally wounded in a big battle, gives a big speech on "what is ninja?" musing on the responsibilities of being a ninja*. This would give the hero ninja the moral direction to go and kill loads more people. Silently.

    *At the end of the speech, the Hero ninja would kill his mentor, because it's the right thing to do in that situation.

    • CommentAuthorPete
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
     
    There would also have to be a scene testing said moral direction without being Spider-man.

    Andy, I would happly write a ninja script with you that I've had kicking around in my head for ages.

    Feng Shui Ninja

    Smell the money.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
     

    Feng Shui - not so much a religion, more of a storage solution

    • CommentAuthorPete
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
     
    C'mon, a ninja who assassinate people through to clever positioning of stones, crystals and sofas that channel a death blow to the victim.

    Interior designer by day, legal killer for hire by night. No trace of a murder left behind.

    You tell me there's no moral code there?
    • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
     
    anyway. back to the original post topic!

    I now have loads of cassettes, I don't suppose anyone has a walkman with a record function?
    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007 edited
     
    I love Ghostdog. Though like most of Jarmusch's movies nothing much happens - it's all about the atmosphere, isn't it?

    Also, yesterday on my Nintendo Wii "Everybody Votes" channel, they asked "Are you: Stealthy ninja or Noble samurai". I had a hard time deciding which I was - it helped if I thought about the question as "sneaky or honest?"



    Anyway...
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
     

    I loved Ghost Dog.

    What about a dictaphone?

1 to 20 of 20

  1.