*See bottomWell, it's official High Rise is no longer in the pipe line. It's been terminated due to scheduling conflicts of people involved and me not really having the time or effort required to put into such a film.
If your unfamiliar with this issue, let me explain from the beginning. Whilst at college I and a fellow student were commissioned by the media department to write, direct, produce and edit a short film (10 minutes to be exact, although later we were told the film could in fact be of any length, shame they didn't have the foresight to tell us that at the beginning) . In any case, a short while previous to this task I had been writing a number of different short comedy scripts for another college project, which came in rather handy as one was exactly 10 minutes long, the required amount of time, and fit the criteria rather well. After a lengthy re-writing process the film was ready to start entering production stages, unfortunately I'd been having some rather heated 'discussions' with my head of department about my work rate and just attitude in general and shortly after this, I left the college.
Now, I had still intended to be very much a part of the film and had the media departments blessing to carry on working with it (it is my script after all), even though I was no longer a student, but sadly, I've had little time to contribute lately, what with running a part time job and trying to find full time employment, not to mention writing letters and filling out copious amounts forms and Internet bollocks. Anyway, I felt bad laying the work load all on one person, even though she had extra help at college it just wasn't fair, so after meeting up and talking about it, we've decided that it would be best to discontinue the film, at least until a later date when we both have time for such a project. I won;t say that I'm not slightly annoyed about it all, I was looking forward to filming and final casting etc etc but on the bright side this does give me time to write a follow up, or perhaps extend the current script.
If anyone is interested in reading "High Rise" I'll be posting a link to the script as soon as I figure out how to actually do that. It's a short comedy piece based around the lives of two very different individuals who have ended up sharing a flat together in the middle of a tower block. It's mostly shit, self confessed, but for some reason it got a brilliant reaction in the class reading, hence it actually going into production in the first place, I'd like to think they were laughs of genuine humor, not sarcasm...although that's probably wishful thinking.
*Check out the fucking whack photoshop job on that logo. You just know that shit was knocked up at the last minute as a joke.
