Sunday, 19 April 2020
CoVid19 Pandemic Update 3 UK Death figures reach over 16,000
New figures released mid afternoon on Sunday 19 April 2020 shocked many who had hoped the UK Government could succeed in stopping the growth of the CoVid19 virus in the population. Figures released that Britain could be on the brink of a catastrophic health emergency with 16060 deaths reported, in the country. Observers warn that this may not reflect the true extent of the numbers infected with the virus, in that it is more likely the figure would be 3 times that due to the way the virus spreads in blocks of 30 percent growth per day. In any one week the virus can spread up to 90 percent from the first day of the week's figure, meaning that in reality by the end of this week Britain could be facing deaths of up to 20,000 by next weekend if it does not succeed in breaking the cycle of severe and rapid transmission of the disease.
You can see the worldometer figures by clicking the word here
In Scotland, which has had 903 (overnight) deaths reported today, Sunday and you can see the daily report at the Scottish Government website Here When these figures are added to the projected number of suspected death in care homes of around 220 it is likely there have been around 1100 deaths and it indicates that Scotland may loose the battle with the virus. While Scotland may have a window of opportunity to stop the flow of deaths it is not clear that the authorities NHS and Government have the 'where, with, all' to effectively stamp out the growth factors of the virus in the NHS or the wider community. To date the Scottish government has failed to keep the growth rate down to the advised rate of under 30 percent growth per day.
In Scotland measures for the vulnerable who require to be shielded from the virus have been criticised because it has only deemed that around 200,000 people in a population of over 5 million will require food boxes and special assistance in their new scheme to assist those who can't get out to shop or leave their homes. Due to mounting pressure from lobbying bodies for the vulnerable who do not meet the supposed guidelines list for food shopping assistance a new helpline number has been set up in order to try to get this severely isolated group more help. The number is 0800 111 4000 and you can see the details on this BBC news report Here It is believed that many people with chronic diseases will fall through the cracks in this provision which is being given to only less than 15% of the vulnerable people in Scotland, whose chronic illnesses could jeopardise normal and fair living standards during the CoVid Crisis.
This week the debate about the causes of the virus extended to a controversial debate about who was to blame for the worldwide outbreak with many mooting for the first time that the characteristics of the virus which attacked the human immune system and lungs in such a virulent way that it may have been a product of a malicious laboratory research scheme from an unknown source. CNN suggested that the Chinese may have made errors in fully understanding the source of the disease in their country and the link to their report is Here
The debate this week also lead to comments from the Taiwan Chief Medical Officer who had raised the alarm as far back as December 2019 here
Doctors in the USA have also raised their concerns about the origins of the virus siting the work of hitherto unknown individuals and department who were in charge of USA medical research systems. While the basis of these claims is not clear yet, it raises the serious question that any such research should not be conducted by any country should it cause the threat of lab virus escaping into the general population. Trump's USA Medical Fixer Fauci has come under fire because of his department funded a CoVid19 Virus programme in China and maybe the source of the outbreak there and, you can read about this angle Here
Care of the sick and how to treat them has continues to put New York in crisis with the appearance of mass graves, at a time when ventilators have in fact often killed victims when applied at the wrong stage.
At time of writing new information was brought to me about the New York Doctor Cameron Kyle Sidell's very important opinion that treatment protocol should be oxygen not ventilators. You can see his impassioned plea from his job as a saver of lives on the lung units of New York #CoVid19 at the link on the word here
Since his report doctors have reviewed the use of ventilators in favour of oxygen in the first instance.
Sadly warnings from human rights advocates about the way dead bodies have been disposed in mass graves remains a cause for concern. Meanwhile President Trump pledges to get people back to work by introducing a phased withdrawal of the lockdown over the next few months despite the fact there have been over 40,000 deaths in America.
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Sunday, 12 April 2020
THE WEEK THAT WAS. CoVid19 10,000 deaths UK, 111,000 deaths Worldwide
12/04/20 Bulletin Number One CoVid19 Emergency Update 3
Over 10,000 death in the UK
In a week that was - the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland resigned and the Prime Minister won the battle against CoVid19 after being in intensive care for 3 days in hospital with a dedicated team of nurses I note they did not use a ventilator and you will see below why this is no longer advised for this disease according to a New York doctor. The Prime Minister made a heart felt thank you all the staff who watched over him in the London Hospital.
New figures released mid afternoon on Saturday 12 April 2020 shocked many who had hoped the UK Government could succeed in stopping the growth of the CoVid19 virus in the population. Figures released that Britain could be on the brink of a serious health emergency with 10,612 deaths reported, in the country. Observers including the World Health Organisation warm that this may not reflect the true extent of the numbers infected with the virus, in that it is more likely the figure would be 3 times that due to the way the virus spreads in blocks of 30 percent growth per day. In any one week the virus can spread up to 90 percent from the first day of the week's figure, meaning that in reality by the end of this week Britain could be facing deaths of up to 20,000 by next weekend if it does not succeed in breaking the cycle of severe and rapid transmission of the disease.
You can see the worldometer figures by clicking the word here
In Scotland, which has had 495 plua 24 (overnight) deaths reported today, there is a better chance of stopping the growth of the deadly virus by isolating the rest of the community from those pools of people who have contracted the disease. However concerns have been expressed about the fact that over 24 people died over night this weekend and this in fact indicates that Scotland may loose the battle with the virus. In it's current growth pattern CoVid19 could increase in Scotland in one week to as much as 3 times the stated figure of today meaning that within 3 days the figure could rise to 660 with a full measure of this growth being 1220 in 6 to 7 days. While Scotland may have a window of opportunity to stop the flow of deaths it is not clear that the authorities NHS and Government have the 'where, with, all' to effectively stamp out the growth factors of the virus in the NHS or the wider community. So far to date the Scottish government has succeeded to keep the growth rate down to the advised rate of 30% which seems part of the way the virus morphs in communities. In London the growth rate has slowed to under 30 percent indicating that lock down measures are beginning to slow the growth of the virus although this remains to be seen over the next week if these figures will hold in either England, Scotland or Wales. With over 10,000 deaths since the beginning of April the virus seems not to be halting and in fact is spreading like wildfire.
In Scotland measures for the vulnerable who require to be shielded from the virus have been criticised because it has only deemed that around 200,000 people in a population of over 5 million will require food boxes and special assistance in their new scheme announced on a week last Thursday to assist those who can't get out to shop or leave their homes. It is believed that many people with chronic diseases will fall through the cracks in this provision which is being given to only less than 15% of the vulnerable people in Scotland, whose chronic illnesses could jeopardise normal and fair living standards during the CoVid Crisis.
Care of the sick and how to treat them has put New York in crisis with the appearance of mass graves, at a time when ventilators have in fact often killed victims when applied at the wrong stage.
At time of writing new information was brought to me about the New York Doctor Cameron Kyle Sidell's very important opinion that treatment protocol should be oxygen not ventilators. You can see his impassioned plea from his job as a saver of lives on the lung units of New York #CoVid19 at the link on the word here
Sadly warnings from human rights advocates about the way dead bodies have been disposed in mass graves remains a cause for concern.
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Over 10,000 death in the UK
In a week that was - the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland resigned and the Prime Minister won the battle against CoVid19 after being in intensive care for 3 days in hospital with a dedicated team of nurses I note they did not use a ventilator and you will see below why this is no longer advised for this disease according to a New York doctor. The Prime Minister made a heart felt thank you all the staff who watched over him in the London Hospital.
New figures released mid afternoon on Saturday 12 April 2020 shocked many who had hoped the UK Government could succeed in stopping the growth of the CoVid19 virus in the population. Figures released that Britain could be on the brink of a serious health emergency with 10,612 deaths reported, in the country. Observers including the World Health Organisation warm that this may not reflect the true extent of the numbers infected with the virus, in that it is more likely the figure would be 3 times that due to the way the virus spreads in blocks of 30 percent growth per day. In any one week the virus can spread up to 90 percent from the first day of the week's figure, meaning that in reality by the end of this week Britain could be facing deaths of up to 20,000 by next weekend if it does not succeed in breaking the cycle of severe and rapid transmission of the disease.
You can see the worldometer figures by clicking the word here
In Scotland, which has had 495 plua 24 (overnight) deaths reported today, there is a better chance of stopping the growth of the deadly virus by isolating the rest of the community from those pools of people who have contracted the disease. However concerns have been expressed about the fact that over 24 people died over night this weekend and this in fact indicates that Scotland may loose the battle with the virus. In it's current growth pattern CoVid19 could increase in Scotland in one week to as much as 3 times the stated figure of today meaning that within 3 days the figure could rise to 660 with a full measure of this growth being 1220 in 6 to 7 days. While Scotland may have a window of opportunity to stop the flow of deaths it is not clear that the authorities NHS and Government have the 'where, with, all' to effectively stamp out the growth factors of the virus in the NHS or the wider community. So far to date the Scottish government has succeeded to keep the growth rate down to the advised rate of 30% which seems part of the way the virus morphs in communities. In London the growth rate has slowed to under 30 percent indicating that lock down measures are beginning to slow the growth of the virus although this remains to be seen over the next week if these figures will hold in either England, Scotland or Wales. With over 10,000 deaths since the beginning of April the virus seems not to be halting and in fact is spreading like wildfire.
In Scotland measures for the vulnerable who require to be shielded from the virus have been criticised because it has only deemed that around 200,000 people in a population of over 5 million will require food boxes and special assistance in their new scheme announced on a week last Thursday to assist those who can't get out to shop or leave their homes. It is believed that many people with chronic diseases will fall through the cracks in this provision which is being given to only less than 15% of the vulnerable people in Scotland, whose chronic illnesses could jeopardise normal and fair living standards during the CoVid Crisis.
Care of the sick and how to treat them has put New York in crisis with the appearance of mass graves, at a time when ventilators have in fact often killed victims when applied at the wrong stage.
At time of writing new information was brought to me about the New York Doctor Cameron Kyle Sidell's very important opinion that treatment protocol should be oxygen not ventilators. You can see his impassioned plea from his job as a saver of lives on the lung units of New York #CoVid19 at the link on the word here
Sadly warnings from human rights advocates about the way dead bodies have been disposed in mass graves remains a cause for concern.
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Saturday, 4 April 2020
UK CoVid19 Virus Deaths rise to 4934
05/04/20 Bulletin Number One CoVid19 Emergency Update 2
(Added Doctor Cameron Kyle-Sidell's from NYC ICU statement on CoVid19)
Since time of writing the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland was reprimanded by the police for contravening the lock down by visiting her holiday home and she has subsequently been removed from representing the Scottish Government on Information Platforms, though some say she should resign for her actions.
New figures released mid afternoon on Saturday 4th April 2020 shocked many who had hoped the UK Government could succeed in stopping the growth of the CoVid19 virus in the population. Figures released that Britain could be on the brink of a serious health emergency with 4934 deaths reported, bringing them 1000 cases higher than the national total in China of 3322 deaths to date.
Worldometer statistic compiler supported by the USA, John Hopkins University dept of epidemiology list the figures in the United Kingdom today as having only 41,903 cases in the country, but observers including the World Health Organisation warm that this may not reflect the true extent of the numbers infected with the virus, in that it is more likely the figure would be 3 times that due to the way the virus spreads in blocks of 30 percent growth per day. In any one week the virus can spread up to 90 percent from the first day of the week's figure, meaning that in reality by the end of this week Britain could be facing deaths of up to 13,000 if it does not succeed in breaking the cycle of severe and rapid transmission of the disease.
You can see the worldometer figures by clicking the word here
In Scotland, which has had 218 + 2 (overnight) deaths reported today, there is a better chance of stopping the growth of the deadly virus by isolating the rest of the community from those pools of people who have contracted the disease. However concerns have been expressed about the fact that over 43 people died over night this weekend and this in fact indicates that Scotland may loose the battle with the virus. In it's current growth pattern CoVid19 could increase in Scotland in one week to as much as 3 times the stated figure of today meaning that within 3 days the figure could rise to 660 with a full measure of this growth being 1220 in 6 to 7 days. While Scotland may have a window of opportunity to stop the flow of deaths it is not clear that the authorities NHS and Government have the 'where, with, all' to effectively stamp out the growth factors of the virus in the NHS or the wider community. So far to date the Scottish government has failed to keep the growth rate down to under the advised rate of 30% which seems part of the way the virus morphs in communities. In London the growth rate has slowed to under 30 percent indicating that lock down measures are beginning to slow the growth of the virus although this remains to be seen over the next week if these figures will hold in either England, Scotland or Wales.
In Scotland measures for the vulnerable who require to be shielded from the virus have been criticised because it has only deemed that around 200,000 people in a population of over 5 million will require food boxes and special assistance in their new scheme announced on Thursday to assist those who can't get out to shop or leave their homes. It is believed that many people with chronic diseases will fall through the cracks in this provision which is being given to only less than 15% of the vulnerable people in Scotland, whose chronic illnesses could jeopardise normal and fair living standards during the CoVid Crisis.
Shredder News awaits further comment from the Scottish Government, whose record on health has been marred by serious problems in the buildings and water of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow and the main Hospital in Edinburgh.
At time of writing new information was brought to me about the New York Doctor Cameron Kyle Sidell's very important opinion that treatment protocol should be oxygen not ventilators. You can see his impassioned plea from his job as a saver of lives on the lung units of New York #CoVid19 at the link on the word here
Thank you for reading this blog. If you like it please support it by clicking the links on the adverts.
(Added Doctor Cameron Kyle-Sidell's from NYC ICU statement on CoVid19)
Since time of writing the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland was reprimanded by the police for contravening the lock down by visiting her holiday home and she has subsequently been removed from representing the Scottish Government on Information Platforms, though some say she should resign for her actions.
New figures released mid afternoon on Saturday 4th April 2020 shocked many who had hoped the UK Government could succeed in stopping the growth of the CoVid19 virus in the population. Figures released that Britain could be on the brink of a serious health emergency with 4934 deaths reported, bringing them 1000 cases higher than the national total in China of 3322 deaths to date.
Worldometer statistic compiler supported by the USA, John Hopkins University dept of epidemiology list the figures in the United Kingdom today as having only 41,903 cases in the country, but observers including the World Health Organisation warm that this may not reflect the true extent of the numbers infected with the virus, in that it is more likely the figure would be 3 times that due to the way the virus spreads in blocks of 30 percent growth per day. In any one week the virus can spread up to 90 percent from the first day of the week's figure, meaning that in reality by the end of this week Britain could be facing deaths of up to 13,000 if it does not succeed in breaking the cycle of severe and rapid transmission of the disease.
You can see the worldometer figures by clicking the word here
In Scotland, which has had 218 + 2 (overnight) deaths reported today, there is a better chance of stopping the growth of the deadly virus by isolating the rest of the community from those pools of people who have contracted the disease. However concerns have been expressed about the fact that over 43 people died over night this weekend and this in fact indicates that Scotland may loose the battle with the virus. In it's current growth pattern CoVid19 could increase in Scotland in one week to as much as 3 times the stated figure of today meaning that within 3 days the figure could rise to 660 with a full measure of this growth being 1220 in 6 to 7 days. While Scotland may have a window of opportunity to stop the flow of deaths it is not clear that the authorities NHS and Government have the 'where, with, all' to effectively stamp out the growth factors of the virus in the NHS or the wider community. So far to date the Scottish government has failed to keep the growth rate down to under the advised rate of 30% which seems part of the way the virus morphs in communities. In London the growth rate has slowed to under 30 percent indicating that lock down measures are beginning to slow the growth of the virus although this remains to be seen over the next week if these figures will hold in either England, Scotland or Wales.
In Scotland measures for the vulnerable who require to be shielded from the virus have been criticised because it has only deemed that around 200,000 people in a population of over 5 million will require food boxes and special assistance in their new scheme announced on Thursday to assist those who can't get out to shop or leave their homes. It is believed that many people with chronic diseases will fall through the cracks in this provision which is being given to only less than 15% of the vulnerable people in Scotland, whose chronic illnesses could jeopardise normal and fair living standards during the CoVid Crisis.
Shredder News awaits further comment from the Scottish Government, whose record on health has been marred by serious problems in the buildings and water of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow and the main Hospital in Edinburgh.
At time of writing new information was brought to me about the New York Doctor Cameron Kyle Sidell's very important opinion that treatment protocol should be oxygen not ventilators. You can see his impassioned plea from his job as a saver of lives on the lung units of New York #CoVid19 at the link on the word here
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Friday, 21 February 2020
Niall of Tara Pitch Teaser
A project in development that needs a kick in the pants, to get some attention, I made this pitch deck piece and it all looks good and makes sense. So now the pitch is ready, its onto the people who can make it happen. Let's see what Niall can do. The discovery of this quixit (new word I just invented) fixit editing programme is great for businesses wanting to move their ideas to the next step. So now I'm addicted to it and happy to get my stories out there.
Saturday, 19 October 2019
The blog that never was
This year the blog has lost its way, stuffed between the admin pressures running a business, finding new ways of promoting the company catalogue of films on Amazon, and just life that catches up with you. The last three months have been marred by a mystery problem of severe bowel pain and blood that was made by worse by eating raw rice grains at an event as far back as July. This week mid October, saw another return to hospital with blood in the toilet and severe abdominal pain. Yet no diagnosis. More to be done to get the answers and some people will be asked questions about their conduct on the matter.
But this year has been good, because I got off to an early start by finishing the first episode of a projected TV series 12 part treatment on the heroic and bardic Irish legend Niall of the Nine Hostages. It remains to be seen by the big guys because I need a whopping big agent with muckle clout. ( Muckle is Scottish word meaning very huge, enormous.) So here's me, asking, please go check me out for my long imdb track record here
We will also soon be announcing the release date of the documentary called Walking With Elephants of Amazon Prime so do watch out for that. It was a mega trip to Africa by film director Robbie Moffat in 2018 that saw him get astounding footage of Elephants and a story log of the way they have been relegated to yet another dying species. It marks Palm Tree Film's entry into the extinction debate which it supports, to campaign for a change in the way pollution, plastic, petrol, and general waste of the planet resources have devastated wild life but also human life ultimately. Most people who ken me well will know the updates on the wildfire devastation, that I regularly put up on twitter to make sure no one forgets about them to create a mindfulness that we are all only a few steps away from destruction.
In line with this I'm developing a documentary about the way the consumer can avoid the substance of plastic in their households, in food creation in the kitchen to lead a life with out plastic as a method of boycotting it altogether. So we are Green Green Green. My film Going Green a fiction film about a family trying to change their life for the better without the Rat Race, can be seen on Amazon Prime here.
I also just finished writing a screenplay about the Scottish pioneer film maker Jenny Gilbertson, who made many films about the life of the Scottish Shetland Crofters as well as the community of Inuits in the Arctic of Canada. Her story is full of daring do, with her exploits filming off the Shetland cliffs, trips to the Canadian Prairies, followed her final days with the Inuits hunting Carabou, making her life a breathless travelogue of events that are laced with her own indomitable self belief that women can do things on their own. Pioneer Female Film Maker inspiring others to take up the Camera in successive generations - she was a remarkable tour de force.
So already this year has been a year of screenplays with another on the way based on the exploits of my grandfather in his adventures of World War Two.This screenplay I hope will not receive countless interruptions, illness and other catastrophy's in the same way I have faced over the last 3 months. Here's hoping???
On top of all this I began some art projects in my 2nd year as an official contemporary Scottish artist and you can read how I became one here
Robbie is going ahead with his projects like a steam train on developing his proposed TV series on Robinson Crusoe so things are continuing there as he planned.
The highlight of the year was meeting Kiefer Sutherland in April at the Wales Comicon when we posed for a photo and I introduced myself as Myself saying Hi Im Mairi Sutherland and he said Hi Im Kiefer Sutherland, shall we do that again Ok - Im Mairi Sutherland, Im Kiefer Sutherland , so we just laughed and giggled together. Such a funny guy and in that moment I knew he understood the problems of the name Sutherland and the hassles that go along with it. Lol so sweet.
So far so good I'm not dead yet but it is no easy ride with hellish pain and fear of the next bout, but I decided to fight back and just make my own karmic revolution despite everything and everyone. Some folks dumped me on the way but those who know life is a hard journey do seem to stick with you even when things go West, because they know they will see you coming back. And on that score you stick with the people who don't give up on you and who carry on making plans regardless.
NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO
But this year has been good, because I got off to an early start by finishing the first episode of a projected TV series 12 part treatment on the heroic and bardic Irish legend Niall of the Nine Hostages. It remains to be seen by the big guys because I need a whopping big agent with muckle clout. ( Muckle is Scottish word meaning very huge, enormous.) So here's me, asking, please go check me out for my long imdb track record here
We will also soon be announcing the release date of the documentary called Walking With Elephants of Amazon Prime so do watch out for that. It was a mega trip to Africa by film director Robbie Moffat in 2018 that saw him get astounding footage of Elephants and a story log of the way they have been relegated to yet another dying species. It marks Palm Tree Film's entry into the extinction debate which it supports, to campaign for a change in the way pollution, plastic, petrol, and general waste of the planet resources have devastated wild life but also human life ultimately. Most people who ken me well will know the updates on the wildfire devastation, that I regularly put up on twitter to make sure no one forgets about them to create a mindfulness that we are all only a few steps away from destruction.
In line with this I'm developing a documentary about the way the consumer can avoid the substance of plastic in their households, in food creation in the kitchen to lead a life with out plastic as a method of boycotting it altogether. So we are Green Green Green. My film Going Green a fiction film about a family trying to change their life for the better without the Rat Race, can be seen on Amazon Prime here.
I also just finished writing a screenplay about the Scottish pioneer film maker Jenny Gilbertson, who made many films about the life of the Scottish Shetland Crofters as well as the community of Inuits in the Arctic of Canada. Her story is full of daring do, with her exploits filming off the Shetland cliffs, trips to the Canadian Prairies, followed her final days with the Inuits hunting Carabou, making her life a breathless travelogue of events that are laced with her own indomitable self belief that women can do things on their own. Pioneer Female Film Maker inspiring others to take up the Camera in successive generations - she was a remarkable tour de force.
So already this year has been a year of screenplays with another on the way based on the exploits of my grandfather in his adventures of World War Two.This screenplay I hope will not receive countless interruptions, illness and other catastrophy's in the same way I have faced over the last 3 months. Here's hoping???
On top of all this I began some art projects in my 2nd year as an official contemporary Scottish artist and you can read how I became one here
Robbie is going ahead with his projects like a steam train on developing his proposed TV series on Robinson Crusoe so things are continuing there as he planned.
The highlight of the year was meeting Kiefer Sutherland in April at the Wales Comicon when we posed for a photo and I introduced myself as Myself saying Hi Im Mairi Sutherland and he said Hi Im Kiefer Sutherland, shall we do that again Ok - Im Mairi Sutherland, Im Kiefer Sutherland , so we just laughed and giggled together. Such a funny guy and in that moment I knew he understood the problems of the name Sutherland and the hassles that go along with it. Lol so sweet.
Im Mairi Sutherland - Im Kiefer Sutherland Photo
So far so good I'm not dead yet but it is no easy ride with hellish pain and fear of the next bout, but I decided to fight back and just make my own karmic revolution despite everything and everyone. Some folks dumped me on the way but those who know life is a hard journey do seem to stick with you even when things go West, because they know they will see you coming back. And on that score you stick with the people who don't give up on you and who carry on making plans regardless.
NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
Tuesday, 5 February 2019
Into 2019 without a blink (new up date)
Pictured Producer Mairi Sutherland at Berlin Film Festival 2018 at Check Point Charlie. A fun moment there.
WW1 Private John Smith and a new Progress report.
The World War One film about my maternal (mum's dad) grandfather Private John Smith, Passchendaele missed its deadline to be completed by the 11th of November 2018 but with that failure, I have just had to look at the project in a different way saying to it that it will be finished when it is finished. It has been dogged with technical problems in the editing suite where lately it will just not save the correct version of the piece and so far the current editing file will not save to other drives because it says it needs a password to do that. All very strange... but par for the course with an out of date final cut pro 7 piece of software that finally seems to have given up the ghost. Now other more up dated versions are being looked at so hopefully the project can be transmigrated to the final cut 10 x system. Lets see what befalls this project but lets not give up. In way of a postscript with help from my daughter, we found the missing version of the film so we think we are back on track. Final cut has a beastly auto saver which can save hundreds of versions of edits. So I learned that it is important to use the 'save as' element and give your main edit a new name every time you work on it. Simply it is not enough to make a general save because this does not differentiate your working files from the auto save versions. It is a learning curve but now it looks as if we are back on the right train track.
In the meantime my grandfather's book of some 200 poems is still being typed up by my brother to form a manuscript for publishing it's pages. So a painstaking process is happening.
Walking With Elephants
This project was filmed under difficult circumstances by Robbie Moffat in Africa last year with the main staging post being Botswana. He hopes it will be like a Marching With the Penguins type of film and is currently planing a voice over narration. It is in post production in London at the moment. It certainly was a Mammoth project and sadly the Elephant seems to be loosing the race which could see it extinct in the same way its ancestor became as a species that died out. Can it be stopped asks the documentary? Can a new habitat be built for the Elephant in time before it is too late? Moffat manages the dialogue and move towards an ecological observation that modern man seems hell bent on destruction no matter what befalls the Elephant in the process. The film plans to premiere at the Cannes Film Market 2019.
I supported this project as a producer, researcher along side the marketing element of getting the project known about.
Chopin -The Last Nocturne
Palm Tree Films continues to develop its own state of films and has turned its attention to one that has been in development for over 10 years, a script written by Robbie Moffat about the famous composer Chopin, who in his last years was forced out of the French Kings court during the second French revolution in the 1840's and found himself having to seek refuge in Britain with his fawning pupils, he was teaching and relying on their income to support himself. Sadly his adventure in Britain lead to his death, but it was nearly prevented by the aristocrat Jane Stirling who who picked up the tab and sent him on the rounds of a concert tour in the grand houses of Scotland and England. Unrequited love is the theme.
Robbie is also reprising the character Robinson Crusoe for a TV series proposal.
My Stuff - Historical
That would usually be enough to be kept busy but there are also my own self written projects, some which are a bit hush hush because mainly if you announce anything they get ripped off the wall before the paint has dried.
Like Private John Smith I have the serious Jenny Gilbertson Project a worthy bio pic about the pioneer film makers life, which has now had all her real life diaries added to it so for I am drawing from historical exactitude to form authentic biographical style screenplays. None of this is for the fainthearted. It's high brow and not for those who pride themselves on a diet of thrill pill films. No apologies there. However there is one fantasy adventure series I'm developing that ticks all the boxes, its action, adventure, drama, and sex all laced up in the Celtic Legends of the 5th Century when Britain was negotiating a new way of life between Pagans and Christians - a tension that was to create Warrior Kings and Warlords. Game of Thrones hold your horses a new TV series is beating its path to your CGI, or so I hope.
2019 has many hopes, dreams. The challenge is to overcome the obstacles, take the technicalities by the horns and say politely to those holding me back excuse me thank you for your time and input, but actually the goal is over that hill and if you are standing in the way, you better move because my train is going in your direction.
2019 get out the way here I am.
(On postscript is as well as my film work, Im now also developing my portfolio as a visual artist.) You can read all about my film work and other projects on my website by hitting the word here
Above my sketch based on a study of the artist Leonard Da Vinci's flower examinations as you will read on my website I have an artistic side and its decided to come out.
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