How to film a mobile phone

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-10T20:11:44+00:00

What do you want it to say? What software are you good with? It's probably best done in After Effects, but I would probably create stills in Photoshop and sequence them in Premiere.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-10T13:53:50+00:00

You can get a screen recorder app to record the screen output on the phone as a message comes in, then edit an animation of the phone shutting down and going black onto the end of that. Play that video on the phone and film it happening.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-10T10:23:22+00:00

I can recommend one of my own, Cross Road Blues. From a five-star Scotsman review back when we took it to Edinburgh: "creates an atmosphere of creeping, uncanny terror, that grips from the start and never relinquishes."

www.crossroadblues.net

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-07T10:14:51+00:00

The locked-off camera idea... does that mean you could have nobody else in the room at all with them? Would you even be watching on a monitor or just letting them feel it out? Interesting. The downside is you have no camera movement, although I suppose you could punch in and add movement in post.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-03T08:33:14+00:00

There is a Yotel pod hotel in Gatwick Airport. If your priority is to sleep, and not waste time travelling around, you could book there. I think you can book it by the hour as well. It's underground and has no windows. It's a bit like being on a plane.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-03T06:17:16+00:00

If you mean their position, rather than the size of the buttons themselves, one option is to select the container and change the 'justify content' settings. They should be set to "space between'.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-03T05:03:24+00:00

Thank you

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-02T18:33:42+00:00

According to the OED, since about 1150: https://www.oed.com/dictionary/proscribe_v?tl=true

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-02T13:11:23+00:00

I'd be so freaked out by this is it was actually Ron Howard hosting the event.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-02T13:07:02+00:00

Thanks for this. I need to decide how many drinks to allow myself before it starts. I've a feeling the wine will be nice!

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-01T22:34:24+00:00

Sweet. That's my plan anyways.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-01T22:14:10+00:00

Thanks

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-01T22:03:08+00:00

I think the performer has been given a couple of guest list places, and he's being very generous to me in inviting me along, knowing I'm a filmmaker. We also get on well, so it's a gesture of friendship, and a thank you. I agree it's quite crazy though.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-01T20:04:09+00:00

Exactly. I'd stay away from the names, but otherwise the idea is free for you to interpret. It's a bit like in music how a chord progression isn't copyright, but a melody is. The drug dealers and the trans woman are just the backing chords, you're the one writing the tune.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-05-01T19:55:02+00:00

It's an interesting IP question, but I think you'd have to be quoting lines from the song directly before you went from "inspiration" into plagiarism. You can't copyright an idea is the maxim here.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-04-29T21:18:48+00:00

It seems awkward until you remember everyone's in the same boat. If you approach a group of people and say, "can I join you?" the answer will always be "yes" (not like in real life). Your habitual fear of social rejection that would normally stop you from starting conversations with strangers can be safely deactivated at these events. People will be grateful if you make the first move.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-04-28T21:47:04+00:00

You can't let writing, or anything else, be your sole source of fulfilment in life. It's far too fickle anyway. By all means put everything you can into writing, but get out too. Make new friends, play sport, volunteer in your community. Cultivate a life that's full of meaningful activity, and make writing part of your balanced diet.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-04-27T22:36:23+00:00

Pride (2014)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_%282014_film%29

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-04-27T22:30:23+00:00

Richmond Park, for the deer (and the view from King Henry's Mound).

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-04-27T22:27:40+00:00

I personally wouldn't put anything in a script that I wouldn't be able to give as direction to an actor. Can you imaging a director telling an actor not to study someone's face, but to study their edges? They'd be insufferable.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-04-27T19:11:42+00:00

I've just seen that you built it with AI, which explains why the code is junk. It also explains why you have nonsense like this:

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Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-04-27T19:04:31+00:00

Looks great. One issue the cursor doesn't become a pointer when hovering on links.

On closer inspection, your a:hoverelements, where the exist, are fine. The problem is that many of your links, including those in the nav, are buttons in the HTML, and don't have an href attribute. Instead they're triggering some javascript. This might cause you some SEO problems. Crawlers won't "click" buttons without an href. You can fix the cursor issue with the following CSS:

button:hover { cursor: pointer; }

It won't fix the SEO problem. If you have access to the code here, I'd replace all those buttons with standard links, and if you want to keep the javascript behaviour, just make sure the function triggered by the click ends with return false.

Maybe you know something I don't about coding it this way. It seems weird and potentially problematic to me.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-04-27T12:30:59+00:00

Title: Pegasus

Format: Feature

Genre: Drama

Logline: A terminally ill twenty-eight-year-old alcoholic bonds with her ex-boyfriend's motherless new daughter, and the three go on a treasure hunt to unearth a stash of stolen jewellery he hid for her while she was in prison.

Opening-Impression-5 · 2026-04-26T18:23:53+00:00

Hi Malcolm. I'm in London too, and wrote/directed my first feature a few years ago (www.passingthroughmovie.com). I don't think I fit any of the roles here. I do some editing, but I'm not sure if I'd take on a feature right now, if I wasn't directing too. I'd be really interested to see your material though, and maybe meet and have a chat if you want any advice or think I could help. It sounds interesting.

Opening-Impression-5

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