Now I know the title of this blog is “The occasional ramblings of an out of work actor” but I’ve really taken the piss, haven’t I? No posts since April? Shocking behaviour…
There’s no real excuse, to be honest. Sure I’ve been busy with stuff but not so busy that I should neglect you - my solitary reader. I know you’ve been checking back every day to see if I’ve updated. You probably thought the RSS feed was borked or something, right? I feel so totally connected to your IP address. It’s like an old familiar face to me. There you are. Every day. Hoping I’ve updated the blog.
I love you mum.
So what’s been happening that’s kept me away from the keyboard? Well sadly it hasn’t been any acting work. This has been the worst year I’ve had in the business. Pinewood recently announced a 55% drop in first half profits and a lot of the TV companies have slashed their budgets by 30-40% so I put the lack of work down to the fact that less is being made. The bigger names in this game are taking on work they would have previously rejected so less is filtering down the food chain.
It’s easier than thinking I’m unemployable.
The zombie comedy movie I’m involved in had a pre-release screening in August. It was a great night catching up with all the cast and crew as well as seeing the film on the big screen. Here’s a short video of the night. I’m the bald guy standing by the door at 0′43″ sweating like a biatch.
We’re busy remastering the film, getting a new trailer done in preparation for release as well as negotiating the minefield that is music clearance. I’ve touched on it before but getting everything tied down to get tracks in your film is a ball breaking job. Still, it’ll be good to finally get the movie out there after having worked on it for so long.
I’ve been writing a screenplay for a vampire movie I want to make but my enthusiasm has been tempered by the realisation that there’s a good chance it won’t get made for a while. Even paying everyone at union minimum rates the budget would be nigh on impossible to raise for a UK indie and it’s not really feasible. I’m still going to finish it off but then maybe look to sell it and let someone else make it. Dunno. Haven’t decided yet.
The other idea I have knocking around my head is for a web series. As far as I can see there are no decent UK based web series out there; everything is US based. Maybe the UK guys aren’t as proactive at marketing as our American cousins but I’m not seeing a UK series as high profile as The Guild, for example. I’ll probably write more about this sometime soon.
Talking of The Guild, I watched every episode back to back the other day. All two and a bit seasons. My eyes hurt at the end of it but it was so good that I couldn’t help myself. I’ve also now got something of a crush on @feliciaday. She makes my winky go funny.
So what else has been going on? Well I closed my old online marketing and search blog. I’d kinda got bored writing about the topics so decided to put it out of it’s misery. Still up for sale if anyone wants it 
My cricket blog is still alive but barely. Despite England winning the Ashes I wasn’t too enthused to update it much over the summer.
I think I’m suffering from a serious dose of meh.
This might have something to do with my impending 40th birthday. Everyone says life begins at 40 so perhaps I’m subconsciously not starting anything I won’t be able to finish in time.
Rambling now. Will stop. Just wanted to let you know I was still alive and I figured that if I didn’t write a blog post soon that I’d have to scrub ‘blogger’ off my list of part-time activities on my Twitter profile…
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According to this article 100,000 people have lost their jobs in the US entertainment industry so you see? Maybe I’m not too far off the mark…
Holy crap! I still can’t find your pic. I’ve missed you being online buddy. Just to let you know.
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