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Somers Town

Somers Town (2008) Somers Town is a comedy-drama set in Somers Town, London, directed by Shane Meadows and produced by Barnaby Spurrier. The film follows Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) and Marek (Piotr Jagiello) and the growth of their friendship over the course of a few days. Tomo is a runaway from Nottingham and Marek is a Polish immigrant who lives with his father who drinks too much. Crew Shane Meadows Somers Town is one of Meadows' feature films. His filmography also includes another inspiration for this project This is England . I'll be looking into Meadows' work in a lot more detail in a separate post. For this production, he opted Paul Fraser as his writer.  Paul Fraser Fraser is often writer for Meadows' projects, as they have been friends since childhood. His other works include Once Upon a Time in the Midlands  and Heartlands . In time that he isn't writing, he is advising on scripts and gives masterclasses on script-writing. In his interview

Final Major Project

Final Major Project. For this project, I'll be developing a pre-production package to begin my final project of 3rd year. I will need to develop a pitch, script, budget, schedule, casting, locations, and possibly a trailer. I will be working with Esme as a pair, because we know we want to work together on the final project and we make a Director and Showrunner team. Ideas The ideas that we have considered are all revolving around a short film platform of 15-20 minutes. We have both put forward ideas for the plot that generally focus on human interaction. Podcast One of my ideas was focused around a plot device. I was curious about a character that keeps a podcast (which could be used as a voiceover) that narrates the plot. I didn't have much of an idea for the plot and so this quickly went down the drain, although I'll keep the plot device idea in mind. AI Esme had the idea of an AI character and their human counterpart living through the end of the world.