Ke11y_cute - Psych cyber-horror

Click HERE to watch ke11y_cute on Vimeo | password: kelly

ke11y_cute from yeesien on Vimeo.

PASSWORD: kelly

I'm not a fan of Halloween in the slightest (don't get me started on parents teaching kids it's ok to terrorise the neighbourhood for selfish gain), so it's a complete coincidence that I'm presenting you with this unsettling slice of disturbia just a few days from the supposedly most evil day of the year...

The film was expertly directed by Ang Yee Sien, whose other films you can see on the Vimeo channel above. The collaboration was enjoyable, I wrote the first draft on the plane to Brasil in May, and my holiday was peppered with re-writes because Yee Sien was on a tight deadline with the shooting days already arranged.

Ke11y_cute was, shockingly, inspired by events in the real world, which you can read about here

My script is on my website here: Ke11y_Cute script

Enjoy. ( the password is: kelly )

Danny the Whisk

Here's another new screenplay, a teen romance/comedy called - read it here: Danny the Whisk, or head to www.jknottingham.com and it's there in the Scripts section.

Danny the Whisk is the painfully shy singer in Punk band Septic Tracy, he needs to find some charisma pronto, because in two weeks time Septic Tracy are going to be on T.V battling the absurdly pompous Electro band The Electric Shepherds. Could the band's new bassist Pearl be the girl to coax Danny out of his cocoon?

This is my first complete, assessed script for the MA. The brief was for a 10-15 page script for a short film.

I was tweaking this right up until the deadline, and even now I can see things to change, for instance I was struggling with the swearing, is it needed? I thought so, for realism, then I was recalling other such films and t.v programs that don't use swearing at all. I actually don't think the tone suits the instances of swearing, though they are few.

Anyway, nothing is ever really finished - especially scripts - there will always be collaboration. Overall, I like the finished result - I think it could easily be extended into a feature - it'd be find to write some real Punk songs for it too! We live in the cracks between the cracks between the cracks between the cracks...