The Margaret Tait Awards 2012

It's Wednesday the 21st of March 2012, and the last few days have been amazing, With great results from the short film 'Happy Tears', Directed by Ro J Goodwin and me shooting the film, to the news that my short film 'FLY a Legacy' has Official Selection at the Short Film Corner Festival de Cannes, and then a few minutes ago I get an email from Corinne Orton from the Margaret Tait Awards to say I have been nominated for the award, just wonderful

Off to the Scotland Directs meeting tonight at the BBC, spent a whole year going there once a month, networking with established directors, and listening to golden nuggets they had to share, magic.

April the 4th and URTV, Helensburgh TV, aired a spot on there news programme about 'FLY a Legacy' at 2mins 30secs http://helensburgh.tv/

Festival de Cannes 2012 Short Film Corner

First thing this morning, I got up and ventured to my favourite retreat, I cast my fly and caught a lump of a rainbow trout, at that moment I knew today was going to be a bit special, you know when you get that feeling.
I got home to read the message I have been waiting for, from the Festival de Cannes, I was very apprehensive about opening it, as the result could determine which direction my future films would take, and as I opened the email, I quickly scanned down to find the word, rejected or not accepted, and all I could find was 'After viewing your film, we are glad to inform you that your film has been accepted at this years Festival de Cannes 2012, short film corner'
My heart almost jumped out of my chest.
So for the last few hours since receiving this message, things have started to move again. My sponsor, 'Orvis', are extremely happy with the news, and of course the F3t tour, where 'FLY a Legacy' on its US theatrical tour. So Good:)

The beginning of 2012

The beginning of 2012 was very slow, with applications and administration of all past events taking priority, leaving me little time and rotten weather.

So the latest news to this date is very exciting, with 'Happy Tears', a short film that Ro J Goodwin directed and I shot during the Christmas period, taking 4 nominations and 1 win at the FilmG awards on the 9th March 2012. Congratulations go out to young Orla who won the best Performance accolade at the awards night.

 

A short clip shot on my compact camera

 A brief update on the development of 'FLY a Legacy': The F3t Fly Fishing Film Tour is in full swing across the USA, and with a little hiccup to deal with at the beginning of the tour, all is now good, and Chris Keig has been updating the F3t Facebook site with wonderful posts on how well the theatrical tour is performing, you can find links and further stories on the right of this page. Also waiting patiently for word from the Cannes Short Film Corner, should hear any day, and of course this will determine whether or not a trip to the biggest film market on the planet is going to happen

'Shooter' is still broadcasting, generating interest, and debate, which in my book is good and healthy.

'King' has been entered into many 1 minute festivals around the world, and at the end of March results should start to slowly come in. Fingers and toes crossed.

I have been posting my photographs lately, and quite a number of enquiries have been received about how to obtain copies of the images, so, in the gallery above, there are a few pictures that are available for download and printing, there are also many more on my Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/ronnie.b.goodwin just friend me:) I will be adding more.
So if you would like a copy, then email me at ronniegoodwin@hotmail.com with subject  'Ronnie's Photos' then tell me which picture you would like, and I will send you a large high resolution file of the image, which you can have printed and framed.
I have added a Donate Button on this blog should you order a picture, then a donation is appreciated.

End of 2011

So, after a very quite year as far as paid work and employment is concerned, all is good on the creativity and advancements of my new film material.

'FLY', a 93 second short film that I created during the summer, has taking on wings of it's own, sporting a major brand in the form of ORVIS, my first ever sponsor.

The films formal title is now 'FLY a Legacy' and is currently winging it's way to the USA to start a full on tour of the states in January with the F3t Film Tour, a very exciting time for the little film that now runs an epic 5mins 40secs, link below. 'FLY a Legacy' is in Official Selection, and very proud of it:)

KING

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece on this blog about a 1 minute short I wanted to make called KING, featuring my good friend Paul Hunter, and with help from David Clements
You can see it here




David shot this little piece with his fuji and created the making of KING

KING had it's first screening on the 30th November 2011 at Scotland Directs, organised by Lizzie Gray at the BBC.  

The processes we went through to make the short are a couple of posts below, hope you like:)

FLY has Global Audience Nov 2011

In the last few days FLY has really made an impact on the fly fishing audience and web sites, over the last few months it has been steadily making progress, not viral, but certainly getting a bit of attention.

The Orvis Fly Fishing website picked it up, and there was an immediate surge in numbers, followed by GoFISHn and The RockyRiver.com who wrote a terrific piece on the film and a little biography on myself, very honoured.

I am now adding the finishing touches to 'FLY a Legacy', which is looking for a sponsor to take with it on it's journey in the near future. If you want to get on board, drop me a line at ronniegoodwin@hotmail.com subject FLY

A One Minute Movie

The International One Minute Film Festival, which is looking for submissions right now and into the new year.

I have written a short piece, which will involve my good friend Paul Hunter in full Robert the Bruce mode. The story came to me in the middle of the night durning my sleep, and as soon as I woke, I had to tell him my plan for the film.
So I took a quick trip to The Rest and Be thankful, and beautiful spot just North of Arrochar. I shot a few stills and set the project in concrete. 

We should be able to capture all the required scenes in a day, as we have 3 locations to visit, and I would like to capture all the brief shots in the same light.
There will be no music, just dialogue and ambient noise.
I have also been experimenting with a look for the short film, which will incorporate a technique which I developed a few years ago on a film called 'Children of the Mist', I must look it out and post.


This picture shot by David Clements, has the colour and soft tone to it that I am looking for, with rich blacks, and a slight blur. We used to picture to create the effect from this original.
Original on the top. The difference is very subtle.

After talking to Paul about the project, I took a picture from his Facebook profile, and did a quick edit, to create a poster and title for the project. The picture is HDR, and I am trying to create the footage to look as hard and detailed as this, as it is only a short piece, it shouldn't be to tiring on the eyes.

The Title is 'KING'

Meanwhile, 'FLY' is still doing very well, and 'FLY' a Legacy is looking and sounding good, very pleased with it.

Shooter is still generating interest, but for now, I am concentrating on new projects, generating sponsors and backers

I connected with David Eustace, after seeing his advert for the Linux G3, I found him on FB, and I dropped him a line, we are going to meet for a coffee around Christmas, and we shall see where this story goes.