Cut a new version of the SimplyBe footage together a couple of nights ago. Really pretty happy with how it all turned out. Check it out here.

Wow. What a month it’s been. Just got back from a 26-day continuous stretch, starting the day after New Year’s...

First up was the new SimplyBe Spring and Summer TV ad, co-directed in Miami with brilliant director/mentor Bluey Durrant. Fantastic girls, amazing place, and the final commercial is pretty cute. I’ll be putting my preferred cut on the website over the next week (or sooner, if I’m allowed!)

Then was the new Jacamo Spring and Summer TV ad, for which I supplied the ‘Fashion Cops’ idea and scripts, then directed the ad - so I really hope it works. Jonny Vegas voice over as always - the man’s always a class act, and we got my friend Gerry McLaughlin (who is going to be a big comedic actor) to bust through some stunt doors which was pretty cool.

As soon as I’d finished the rough cut to Jacamo there was the new Marisota TV ad, again co-directed with Bluey, this time in Cape Town. Never been to Sub-Saharan Africa before and was really looking forwards to it despite the crazy work schedule. What an amazing, amazing place Cape Town is. I’m planning to go back soon. Flew back this morning, just in time to attend the final Jacamo voice over sessions...

...and that’s been my month. Pretty amazing. Hoping February will have something similar in store...

Keep posted for new stuff on the ‘directing’ portion of my site. I’ll be posting as soon as I’ve finished cutting.

Been a slow month since I finally finished the catwalk competition edit - I hope I’ll be able to put up some links to it soon. I’m proud of it and the technical achievements of the crew across the board - it’s a pretty epic little viral given the rushed prepping circumstances and limited shooting time - eighteen hours of multi-camera footage boiled down to ten minutes of drama, fashion and heartache on the catwalk.

So what have I been occupying myself with during this relative dry spell? I’ve been settling into the late nights and grumpy, sleep-deprived days that characterize me when I write - at the moment, a new internet drama series and a TV pilot - but I’m hoping to get back to feature scripts soon.

I’m also pitching for a couple of big jobs - possibly to be shot in glamorous locations overseas - so I’ll keep you posted when I hear more.

Two more shoots this week - both jobs for JD Williams. Started with a catwalk shoot for SimplyBe on Tuesday with the lovely Louise McCallum who was also in my ‘SimplyBe Moments’ video, and a new series of product videos on Friday for underwear brand SimplyYours.

Going to have to knuckle down to the sixteen-plus hours of footage for the ‘Catwalk Competition’ event last week over the next few days. I saved up some spare scratch from a couple of previous jobs and decided this would be the perfect time to invest in a new mac. I’m writing this entry on it now: a quad-core i7 iMac with 8 Gigs of RAM. It runs like a dream compared with my four-year-old Macbook Pro, though it renders so quickly I no longer have the excuse for tea-breaks whenever I want them.

I’m hoping the new hardware will be able to rocket forwards my next creative projects, of which I’ll write more soon here.

Wow. Wednesday was an exhausting shoot, but the event was fantastic, the models seemed to really enjoy themselves, and everything came together slickly in the end. The cast and crew were great - especially the runners, whose day was particularly gruelling.

I totted up the amount our cameras had shot over the day - 280 gigs - and realised that we’d shot more than 13 hours of footage. This is for an 8 minute film. I guess we got a little carried away. But hey, I’d rather have more footage than less, especially of a live event. So, if you want to know where I’ll be for the next week, I’ll be in my room, cutting!

Wow. Big day tomorrow - a live event and one of most complicated shoots - Simply Be’s “New Face of Fashion” Competition.

We’ll have sixty people as well as crew and five cameras - including one I’ll be operating myself - to bring a ‘mini X-Factor’ to the internet.

I’ll let you know how it goes. Wish me luck!

Woohoo! Here it finally is, folks... My new site. Please be patient with me over the next week as I make sure the whole site does what it’s meant to.