****It has been a very long time since an update. I’m taking the easy way out by just adding this to the same link rather than posting a new story. I have been shooting and cutting a new music video for Cashier No9. It’s all done and the band should be releasing it soon. That is really all there is for my excuse. Hopefully you think it’s worth the wait. I’ll write about it when it’s out. Got another video in the pipeline which is babysweet. I edited a short programme about Slow Club which was broadcast on Channel 4. I forgot to ask them to credit me as babysweet so I’m under my real name. Very sad. You can see it here if your bored****
” A musician and a scene ” is the beginning of something special for babysweet. I think I can feel it. There’s just something about this whole thing that feels right to me. I’m getting something from it and I don’t know what it is. You know that lyric “it’s like walking a long desert mile spending one minute in this town”? Well it’s nothing to do with that but thats by a band called Spider Bags and their debut album will make you ill. “lay down with the wrong woman and you may as well lay down everything”! I could keep throwing those lyrics out but just go listen to it on spotify.
Anyway. “A musician and a scene”. I filmed this back in April at the suggestion of an “Indie beyond his own comprehension” bloke called Richard. The film is only 15 minutes long. I’ll tell you that for free. Am I over egging by making a trailer for it and not only that but editing another trailer to release in a months or so time?
"The Dynamic Dynamo" Mr. Si Cranstoun
The reason I am trailering it, if you will, is because this baby isn’t going online for a long time. I feel this should be shown at a festival. I mean for the love of the great saints this should get into at least one festival. Ideally a festival where people know why they are going into a certain room. Not like the time we had our Two Door film shown in some excuse for a film festival. That was hard to take. Fannys. Don’t know if that’s directed at myself, the festival organiser or the people who watched it and left it. It’s a very strong word. But in this age and time we sometimes need strong words. Anyway, this is going to be touted out to some festivals. No doubt they will want it on a DVD and then I shall refuse as I can’t do that and am getting fed up with hating the quality. It’s my on fault. I find it easier to get better quality online than on a dvd. It’s laughable if your not me. I adore emailing links for applications.
The film takes place at Hemsby 2011
This blog was meant to give fans of Si an insight into the film. As let’s make no mistake about it, Si Cranstoun is Indie huge. The Dynamo promo has over 70,000 views. Huge. I am at a level where that still matters to me. It says a lot about my progress. I’ve come on leaps and bounds. Figure that out gangsta. Si took me to a festival. People adored him. He said to me “It’s funny / hard, because at these festivals I am somebody. When I go home I’m just Si Cranstoun”. Indie.
some people are born to jive
So the plan is that this film will enter some festivals. Get a minuscule bit of interest from somewhere and then I will get a bit of funding to go off and make the hour long feature film that this scene, musician and characters deserve. Or, it gets turned into a reality Tv Show. Or I just go and make the documentary myself.
i love this man. i love him. you will.
Some folk who’s opinion I respect and hold dear have been toying with my beliefs recently. At the level I am and stage I am at and age I am, should I make the music video idea I have for the band that aren’t really going to promote it, that will use it but in a totally unambitious way but for whom the concept originally came and for which their song fits perfectly. Or should I use it for the other band, who’s song I don’t like as much but still like, who sound doesn’t fit the concept as perfectly but still fits it and who will put in far more effort promoting it, will have more money to spend on it, will have it shown to people who are more likely to hire me for a future job and who arguably would be more appreciative. It’s an interesting debate.
But to finish on a less pretentious note, a lady from the film spoken about above, who entered into the hemsby beauty pageant contest. There is something about her movement which you can see briefly in the trailer that does something to me. Obviously she is my second love and doesn’t touch the lonely hunter. But I think we should all appreciate this woman style and beauty.
Hemsby beauty pageant had some lovely people in it
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