Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Nov 20, 2009, 2:03 pm
By Sinéad Ferguson (Producer/Production designer) This is part seven in a seven part series on finding the right locations. When looking for a location put the word out, email friends, family, post...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Nov 10, 2009, 3:43 pm
By Sinéad Ferguson (Producer/Production designer) This is part six in a seven part series on finding the right locations. Here comes the difficult part, finally finding your locations is one thing,...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Nov 4, 2009, 2:32 pm
By Sinéad Ferguson (Producer/Production designer) This is part five in a seven part series on finding the right locations. During the course of making Ambleton Delight we filmed in lots of different...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Oct 25, 2009, 5:51 pm
By Sinéad Ferguson (Producer/Production designer) This is part four in a seven part series on finding the right locations. Right so we had found our restaurant now we needed the kitchen. Considerin...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Oct 21, 2009, 5:04 pm
By Sinéad Ferguson (Producer/Production designer) This is part three in a seven part series on finding the right locations. So now that we had our village, our base so to speak we could start worki...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Oct 10, 2009, 8:05 am
By Sinéad Ferguson (Producer/Production designer) This is part two in a seven part series on finding the right locations. With Ambleton Delight, Itsuka wrote a wonderfully rich screenplay creating ...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Oct 5, 2009, 3:35 am
By Sinéad Ferguson (Producer/Production designer) This is part one in a seven part series on finding the right locations. We always set out to achieve a low budget film with a big budget feel. One ...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Sep 29, 2009, 5:51 pm
By Itsuka Yamasaki (Writer/Producer) OK in this blog, we're making one of our early budget sheets public. If you are interested, please follow this link to a spreadsheet PDF showing the budget st...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Sep 23, 2009, 4:47 pm
By Itsuka Yamasaki (Producer/writer) I have read somewhere that "you never complete a script - you abandon it." And it's so true. Even after completing the film you still feel like making change...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Sep 20, 2009, 5:06 pm
By Itsuka Yamasaki (Writer/Producer) One of the first things we did as a production team was script editing. The session itself will be explained in a later post but in this particular article I woul...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Sep 16, 2009, 6:57 pm
By Dan Parkes (Director) It seems in the world of filmmaking that films must sit within two basic catagories: the short film (no longer than 15 minutes) and the feature film (no shorter than 70 minut...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Sep 13, 2009, 2:12 pm
By Dan Parkes (Director) In a desperate search for funding, you will likely consider all options, bar robbing your very own grandmother. Because, of course, you would never consider anything illega...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Sep 9, 2009, 4:38 pm
By Itsuka Yamasaki (Producer) OK so you have exhausted almost all your options and still can’t find enough money. So what now? Well, basically you have two options: 1. Give up (and tell everyone el...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Sep 6, 2009, 8:56 am
By Dan Parkes (Director) We spent considerable time during our pre-production applying to a local UK film funding agency. Our plan was to shoot our very low-budget film for about £10,000, hoping th...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Sep 2, 2009, 4:46 pm
By Sinéad Ferguson (Producer) So you have decided to take the plunge and make your film. Great! The next question that immediately comes to mind is where do we get the money? Unsurprising, obtaining...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Aug 30, 2009, 7:45 am
The Ambleton Delight production team consisting of just three of us, Itsuka (writer/producer) Dan (director/producer) and myself (production designer/producer). Having previously worked together on se...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Aug 27, 2009, 4:13 am
Snakes on a Plane. Merely the title of this film generated interest and an automatic fan base. And when the director wanted to change it to Pacific Air 121 star Samuel L Jackson apparantly threatene...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Aug 22, 2009, 9:49 am
Most novice script writers will use their default word processing software. And this is not necessarily foolish considering favourites Final Draft and Movie Magic Screenwriter cost hundreds of pounds...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Aug 19, 2009, 5:56 pm
We are presenting a lot of these blogs, tips and inside information in chronological order of production, so I thought it would be interesting at this point to put some general writing tips from write...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Aug 16, 2009, 7:48 am
When it comes to writing the first draft of Ambleton Delight there is so much to tell but I will try to keep this article from the POV of writing for a low budget film. I’m going to make it into a l...
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Ambleton Delight posted an article on The Recipe to Ambleton Delight - Aug 13, 2009, 4:45 am
Alfred Hitchcock once said: ‘To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.’ There is no denying that a good story is a vital ingredient –something that will...
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