EXTRA FUNDS
We are pleased to annouce the AFC has made the decision to give us extra funding of $50 000 to ensure that we stay and finish the Oz leg of the project. The crew would like to thank everyone who put in their efforts in making this happen.
SHOOTING DELAYS
With storms hitting Sydney left right and centre over the past few days, let's just be thankful that our team wasn't actually out in the bush (as scheduled) for the beginning of the shooting week. Well I guess everything probably happens for a reason so here we are back in development with a tighter leaner script, a bit more funding and a wad more experience under our collective belts: http://thequality.com/flics/10weeks/blog/archives/002047.html#002047
BBC CREATIVE ARCHIVE LAUNCHES IN AUTUMN
Thousands of clips from BBC radio and TV factual programmes will be free to download from the internet from this autumn, the BBC has announced. The clips, of up to three minutes, will be available for downloading exclusively on the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3525455.stm
CHANNEL FIVE BREAKS THE ICE FOR TV DOWNLOADS
Legal music download sites have become hugely popular but TV companies have so far not used the same technology to put programmes online. TV channel Five has said it will be the first UK broadcaster to offer parts of its shows for sale as legal downloads: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4368435.stm
HEADS UP QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The script definitely works.. so all that has to be done is to... make it on a shoe string. So make it!" - Jack Feldstein