Nearly finished my first assembly edit.

Well here we are, two more scenes to edit (one of them consisting of just one shot) and I'm coming in at a whopping 22'30" Now considering I had to cut my 20 page script down to 10 pages in order to be approved for the Inovation Shorts Fund, I'd say that's not bad going!

So what does The Infectious Imagination Of Henry Bramble look like? Is it going to be an award winning classic short? Will it get me some children's televisioon work? Will it attract David Heyman and Warner Bros to give me some decent development money for a feature length version? Will I finally be on the road to blockbuster success? The answer I'm afraid is that I haven't got as clue. I'm currently suffering from editor's syndrome, a condition where you have been exposed to the material for so long you can't judge it any longer. I need a few weeks off while the VFX boys get busy creating the wire frame Voydarkatron, then maybe I'll have fresher eyes for the picture lock. I am screening it to the producers Charlotte and Annabel on Monday so it will be interesting to see their reactions and hear their thoughts on the matter.

What I can tell you however, is that surprisingly, there are not that many problems with it considering the limited time we had. Overall the interior scenes work exceptionally well and Paul Copley's performance is a real pleasure to watch and is probably the main reason the films running time is so long. He delivers so many 'telling' expressions, it's hard to cut anything out. There's less usable material for Henry and Raygo, though that's mostly because we only had a couple of takes to work with due to the speed at which we had to get through the exterior scenes. There are also a few times when Archie would get tired and struggle to completely focus (a problem I also faced with The Happiness Thief, which is why there are such strict working patterns for child actors) and where Maxwell struggled with the creation of my tounge twisting words like Voydarkatron and Minoitaniga.

Overall, at this early stage, I am not thinking we have a dudd, so that's got to be worth something. Even though i signed off the final design for the Voydarkatron, I still can't imagine it there in the flesh, blended into the footage we shot. I'm hoping it'll look incredible, but we'll have to just wait and see!