I am a really lucky sod, and I mean really! I still can’t believe my luck at what happened yesterday: Sally and Luke invited me over to their place for a meeting with two people sally knows. Truth be told I didn’t quite know what to expect, but I took the 54 over there after leaving school. Unfortunately yesterday was the communication works event there, so I was a bit gutted at having to leave early. It was worth it, though: I rolled up to Sally’s at about two, to find her and Luke sitting outside with two more people I didn’t recognise. It turned out they were Sally’s friends from the world of film; they had worked with Sally, an actor/producer, before, and had come to advise Luke and I about our film. It was a wonderful meeting: they taught me so much about writing for film. They come from the industry rather than academic side of things, so I got tips never covered in my old creative writing class. One invaluable pointer was to add as much detail in the screen directions as possible, so that when a prospective producer reads it, he instantly sees what you intend and is more likely to go forward with it. They also showed us some of their work – low budget, short, with a kind of unusual aesthetic, yet pretty damn good, try to check out The Last Waltz (2014). A wonderful, haunting little film.

Great, great stuff from a great great meeting; yet it seems I have lot of work to do. I now have a film to write, so if you’ll excuse me I’ll post this and get on with it.