Not Another Happy New Year Post:A Year in the Life of an All Round Entertainer
Why am I posting now?
Because it's a new year so it's a new me?
Nope. I'm posting now because for the first time in about 3 years I've actually had more than a week off and I've had some recovering to do.
Keep reading for what I've been up to, news on more movie analysis and reviews and a look to my plans for the new year.
2013. What a year it's been, where to start? I haven't posted since July and here's a quick summary of what I've been up to.
Well first of all the big highlight of the year was graduating. I have my degree so now you HAVE to accept my movie reviews as gospel. They are correct, I have been endorsed. Nicolas Cage is a versatile and credible actor and Indiana Jones 4 is a good movie.
I got my first job in the industry, which was a pretty big step. I started off as a runner in an animation company with literally no training or experience and after 4 weeks of just showing up every day and getting on everyone's tits I was able to slip something into the bosses drinks and get them to sign a contract to employ me full time. Ok well most of that is true. But I did go from a runner with no
experience to now a full time digital artist working on a BAFTA winning show and have been since my last blog post (June). To anyone hoping to make it into a certain industry I really can't stress enough how much I recommend asking for voluntary work experience. . You'd be really surprised how many people will help you out if you just ask. Even if ultimately you decide it's not the career for you, you'd never have known that until you try.
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| Roy: A cartoon boy living in the real world |
The show I'm working on is called Roy, on CBBC and I'm a compositor on it, mainly a rotoscope artist at the moment.
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| The original BUMP! script by 5 year old Calum Muldoon |
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| Bump on auction in Dublin |
In other work, I illustrated a children's book, something I've always wanted to do. It's about a little goblin who is walking through the woods and loses his shoes. What's awesome about it is that a 5 year old wrote the story! And it's really good! Went on to sell a few prints of it down at the Animation Art show in Dublin, making a bit of cash for charity and having mighty craic at the same time. (Craic does not mean drugs, to my followers outside of Ireland, it means fun. Please stop harassing me and my legal team.)
I haven't gave up on the filmmaking front either. My final year film You Run My Heart, about a sickly, elderly lady who starts to mistake her son for her deceased husband was finally completed, shown in a graduation showcase in a local cinema and has been well received. It was directed by Dan Brown and I took on the role of director of photography. I was D.O.P. again in Joel Mulhern's A Possessive Relationship, a story about Bruce, a man with a possessed hand, at a support group for people with possessed limbs, led by Doctor Raimi. What do you mean Evil Dead? We've obviously never even seen it ;) Great film to work on, awesome to work with such a great cast and crew and it won the audience prize at Film Devour as well to top it off! Lastly I just finished writing a score with my buddy Eoin Feighan for another Belfast based short film, directed by Aiden Largey, but more on that later....
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| On the set of A Possessive Relationship |
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| First time visiting Jurrasic Park. Still looks better than most of today's movies |
I am a terrible film graduate. I have a film degree and have not seen ANY good movies. Oh I've seen Green Lantern, but Reservoir Dogs? Nope. I know every word to the Fast and Furious franchise but the Alien films? Nada.
This list continues. But this year, for the first time, I was introduced to Jurrasic Park And it was glorious. So glorious that it deserves to be on my list of achievements.
So what can I possibly do next year to top that lot?
Well at the end of this year I started a film club, which is still in the beta test stage. Basically it will bring together the local filmmaking community and offer people a chance to learn, try new techniques and make contacts, as well as be fun! The club will be accepting short script submissions, ideas for test shots as well as any other ideas, with the intention of having something to shoot every week, giving anyone who comes along a chance to enjoy being part of a film cast/crew and ultimately building a fun portfolio out of it. Keep a look out for more on this throughout the early parts of the year.
In my own career I'm hoping to do more music, hopefully again for film, but also the current season of Roy will come to an end in June so who knows where I'll be or what I'll be working on.
What does the future hold for the All Round Entertainer Blog? Well my sketching has taken a back seat this year, because sadly I don't have time for everything, but there's always the possibility of another Guess the Sketch or two, but needless to say, Project 250 (to do 250 sketches in 2013) failed. You CAN expect more movie reviews, although wether I do more in depth ones or more short ones like you're going to see in the next post, remains to be seen. I'll keep updating the blog with more news on my short films that I'm working on as well as my TV show and of course, the upcoming film club, so keep checking scottynewton.blogspot.co.uk and www.scottynewton.com for all the latest.
Any resolutions for the year? To enjoy what I have, to strive for what I want and to be grateful for what's around me. So no resolutions, just keeping going.
It's been a tough 12 months, with major lows, but major successes too. I haven't been bored for one minute and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Happy 2014 Do something big this year, life's too short to have forgettable ones.
Scotty
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