{"id":952,"date":"2011-08-29T12:55:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/?p=952"},"modified":"2011-09-10T18:26:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T17:26:25","slug":"coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2011\/08\/29\/coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today sees the release of the new trailer of my latest and most ambitious film project. In doing so I am following the\u00a0sound advice of Richard Hamming<\/a> and\u00a0forcing my own hand. With the trailer now on public view, I will definitely have<\/em> to finish the film.<\/p>\n

The video started life in the midst of bloody battle \u2014 when I was a participant in the online competition I’m a scientist, Get me out of here<\/a> back in June last year. Turning to desperate measures in my efforts to connect with the school-children whose questions we had to answer and so persuade them to vote to keep me in the competition, I made an initial trailer<\/a> and promised that, if victorious, I would use the prize money to make a film about what it is really like to be a scientist.<\/p>\n

As history has recorded<\/a>, I emerged a winner at the end of the intense but very gratifying competition. I am now almost ready to deliver on my promise. After months and months of rumination, filming began back in March, when I held the first of six interviews with different scientists. Once the interviews were transcribed, I could construct a storyline, write links between the different segments and assemble a rough cut, all of which occupied large chunks of my summer holiday. The links were shot in the past couple of weeks and the final day of shooting was, I hope (!), last Saturday. So the project is now ‘in post’, as we like to say in the movie business.<\/p>\n

The final editing shouldn’t <\/em>take too long. Watch this space.\u00a0But first, please watch the trailer:<\/p>\n