Location India |
Mood Deeply traumatised by events in Nigeria |
Date 10 January 2007
Hello anyone who might be reading this.
Sorry I haven't had a moment to get the diary entries from August to December up here.
Location Edit room in the office, 11.45pm |
Mood Frazzled satisfaction |
Date 26 June 2007
It's exactly five years to the day - possibly to the hour - that we thought of the idea for the film, so strikes me as a delightfully auspicious moment to go public about our little project.
Location 1.10am, hire car on the M1, Lizzie driving |
Mood Despair |
Date 11 June 2007
The last ever day filming Crude didn't start too well for poor Lizzie as the hire car she picked up yesterday developed a flat tyre and she spent half the night organising tow trucks. Then had to get up at 5.30am to pick me and new soundman Ben up to drive to Bedford for the result of Piers's three-year battle to get planning permission for his latest windfarm.
Location In a tent in a field in Hay |
Mood Christmas morning before the parents wake up |
Date 27 May 2007
Rain, Cameras, Action....
Photograph: Charlotte Rushton
Location D the E's house, babysitting his very cute twins who are supposed to be in bed |
Mood Amused |
Date 25 May 2007
Just finished two weeks script writing with David and Emily . Nearly killed me. Brain imploded. Far too many great ideas and no system for marshalling them.
Location Lord Stanley pub, near the office |
Mood Slightly more hopeful |
Date 11 May 2007
Suddenly remembered Emily James as I was washing up for the first time in three weeks this morning. She's an indie filmmaker very much from the Spanner mould. Her film "The Luckiest Nut In the World " famously used animated singing peanuts to discuss trade liberalisation.
Location Hampstead Heath cafe |
Mood Dramatically more positive |
Date 21 March 2007
Fate has intervened to save Crude. I've been stuck in a terror tunnel as it gradually dawns on me how many elements we are incapable of doing. Like making animation. Or mocking up news reports. Or trawling a million hours of BBC archive.
Location Still in the woods. Feet up at dad's old Avid where Ken Loach cut his McLibel scenes |
Mood Worried |
Date 11 March 2007
Lizzie and I have made up. She agrees that "a change in attitude is needed". And I said that it was the panic of steering the whole Crude ship on my own for two weeks that caused me to overreact (was that an apology?). Anyhow, we've renewed our vows to get the fucker finished.
A good thought from the Guardian. Think there may be the replacement Crude title somewhere in the idea of "like there is no tomorrow":
Location Tube back from Kensington |
Mood A tonne of bricks off my shoulders |
Date 17 February 2007
Good thing: Met with Jeh in a swanky pad he was staying at in Kensington to show him the rough cut of the film. His old friend from his car-dealing days in London was there too. I was feeling immensely nervous as it started up.....but..... he absolutely LOVED it. Was laughing all the way through - as was his pal. He said he couldn't believe that I'd made something so professional looking and so "slick".
Location Easyjet plane |
Mood Cruising |
Date 16 February 2007
Jeh with mockup planes at Airbus in Toulouse
Photograph: Patrick Igonet
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