Movies You Made: “Sketch Pad”

From the recent Introduce Yourself post, there were several readers who included information about movies they had made. So this week, we’ll feature those. Here’s today’s selection:

My name is Mark Pallis. I’m a fan of the blog, and delighted to introduce myself.

I am based in London at the moment and I am a former lawyer, now a writer. I got into this from a love of stories: listening to them, telling them, and a love of cinema — for me, nothing beat the excitement of sitting there in a plush seat as the curtains go back!

I am the Story Editor of a period BBC Drama series called Garrow’s Law, which has been a fantastic experience. http://www.garrowslaw.wordpress.com

I write features too; currently I’m tweaking my script for the British Kung Fu film ‘Iron Monk — the deeper he meditates the harder he hits”. Here is the trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKe5Ad2rSOI

I also love comedy and have two rom com specs completed which are going to be hitting the town very soon.

I wrote a short called Sketch Pad as part of a 48 hour film competition last year. Here it is: http://vimeo.com/22234594

The comp was a great experience. It was such good writing practice to come up with a story and a script in such a short time. I can recommend taking part to anyone who’s in the UK, or elsewhere if you get a chance!

Cheers and happy writing to all.

Mark

http://www.markpallis.wordpress.com

Here is the short movie “Sketch Pad”:

Details about the shoot:

Our entry to the Sci Fi London 48 hour film challenge 2011. Directed by Theory co-founder Simon Sharp, shot by Theory co-founder Tom Jenkins, script by Mark Pallis

Elements which we had to include:
Title: Sketch Pad
Prop: Plate of biscuits, a character takes one.
Dialogue Line: ‘It didn’t do this the last time’

Please go to comments to give Mark some feedback re his short film “Sketch Pad.” And if you have a movie you made and it’s embeddable, post that info. 

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