So I'm watching Lily Allen and friends right now, it's really not that good. I read a report earlier in the week that stated half of her audience walked out due to boredom. I then read a rebuttal by Lily Allen stating that the recording went on longer than expected and so audience members had to leave in order to catch trains....bullshit.
There's no two ways about it, it's a pretty lame show right now. Maybe it'll get better, probably not though. It's funny how fervently she was defending her show, which is only natural, but I think they're going to have to do something drastic to make it a little bit more entertaining.
Talking about entertainment, what the hell was going on the with the 2008 BAFTA awards? Seriously, opening with a 300 reference with about 30ish overweight (not even muscular) greased up men? What the hell, the flick came out in 2006! Something a bit more current, please. Then there were the microphone issues for the first 20 minutes, nice. The amount of promotion they did for this event, the fact they consider themselves the British equivalent to the Oscars and already, within the first 3 minutes, they've made a lame reference to a movie that's already two years old as well as echoey microphones! Good going, team!
Jeez, the British writers aren't even on strike and they produce this crap? Perhaps sabotage? Perhaps. Or not. Actually, no. It was just lame. The 'jokes' they had the presenters spout before reading off the list were terrible. Why is that such an ingrained institution with awards ceremonies? Why, oh why, can't the jokes be..you know, good?
Whatever, moving onto film stuff. I did get the role of script editor (not doctor) as well as Art Director. After having to explain the differences (that do exist) between a script editor and script doctor, to the course leader no less, I settled into the role.
Today was the first creative meeting, we discussed the script and did an initial break down and so, after two-three hours, we had successfully managed to get through 5 pages. Go us and our awesome methodical techniques!
Every thing was discussed in relative depth. It'll be interesting having to write to somebody else's expectations, in this case our director Joe. He wants to take it in an interesting comedic direction, toning it down, making it more subtle, etc, which, considering the style of comedy the script is right now, will be interesting. To say the least, the tone right now is pretty much not what he wants. In its description it was described as 'Bridget Jones' meets 'The Office' (Uk not USA), but it never felt that way to me. There's a character in it called Stephen who just begs to be played by someone like Ben Stiller (via Dodgeball) or Will Ferrell (via anything with Will Ferrell). That being said, toning it down into a more subtle sense of humor (The Office, UK, and Extras were two names thrown around a lot) should be fun, I like both senses of humor and think I've got a good grasp on them both, better than most, especially considering my up bringing and my eventual deportation (it wasn't really) over here.
Also, they've apparently been onto a casting agency that rep one, David Mitchell (of the British Apple Ads fame. Oh, and some show about Peeping), to play the protagonist, Jeffrey. My money says he'll be too busy, but you never know.
Gotta say, I've doctored a script in the past and had fun doing it, but this is pretty different and should be interesting. It'll be tough because the way I saw the script being made isn't the way Joe wants it and, considering he's the boss man, I've gotta write it to satisfy what he wants (easy, people.) That's not to say I won't be having any sense of creative input, hopefully there'll be something of me in there. I'm not too sure there'll be loads, but whatever.
Music wise, having to be back down for these meetings and my Final Cut Pro session has obviously meant we haven't practice these past few days. The guys had other stuff to do anyway and, frankly, I'm glad for the break. It'll give my fingers a damn chance to heal up and hopefully when we get back together to practice on Thursday/Friday for the gig on Sat we'll be a bit more relaxed and so won't be prone to stupid mistakes like timing issues or forgetting lyrics (my bad!) Hopefully.
I'm out, but next time I manage to get on I'll probably talk a bit about Girls and Y: The Last Man as well as Lars and The Real Girl. If I remember, and can be bothered that is.
Steve.
Oh and Amy Winehouse winning all those Grammys? Fucking bullshit. Don't give people with those kind of problems this kind of recognition, it's fucking retarded. She's not that good and she looks like a damn witch.
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