Posts Tagged ‘gone fishing’

Readers who have been diligently monitoring my RSS feed over this past week will know I’ve been drawing richly from the deep well of film gems which is Chris Jones Vimeo channel.

You know, I’m funny like that; when I really fancy something I tend to go long. I get downright streaky. I’ll tinker with something, push its envelope, and go dangerously into “burning the midnight oil” territory until I’ve just about learned as much as I can from the thing under the microscope. Those videoblogs on offer at the Living Spirit site are remarkable examples of how to keep your dedicated audience engaged about your film long after your production has wrapped and your film’s in the can.

And – for the record — I’ve been learning a heck of a lot. Chris Jones appears to be one of the indie film community’s truly remarkable – yes, remarkable, folks – online and offline personalities. Like I’ve been sporadically commenting below some of his videos at the site, it’s astonishing how Jones has gained industry notoriety as a director – the film industry’s equivalent of the all-American quarterback, or in European soccer parlance, the A League striker – while it was as a film producer that he cemented his reputation within indie circles. Admire the poise, the concentration, and the sheer outspokenness (no “ums,” “uhs,” or other oral hesitations) as Chris describes the mechanics of several stunt scripted sequences in Genevieve Jolliffe’s Urban Ghost Story clip:

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For the past couple of nights, I’ve been this close to burning straight through the midnight oil while catching up a series of long vidclips at London-based production company Living Spirit’s Vimeo Channel. If you’re drawing a blank right about now on Living Spirit, it’s because you’re not making the mental connection between it and standout British indie sensation Chris Jones, director of the award-winning short Gone Fishing.

Over the next couple of days, I plan on doing even more full-court blogging about the independent film movement, in general, along with a generous slathering of commentary about several of the streaming materials I find while trawling around sites like Chris’ and others’ in search of well-done, well-assembled films.

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