Stay the Same

What happens next?

Only two days to go and I have pulled out a very dusty suitcase from under my bed ready to catch the 11am boat on Thursday after filming. I really am looking forward to a few weeks of visiting friends, film festivals and doing some teaching in London. I am also starting to prepare for the next stage of this project – editing the film.

This will be an intense process requiring a different kind of reflection so I have decided not to share it on this site and will stop blogging when filming finishes on Thursday June 21st.

The first thing I will do will be to watch the whole year back in its entirety to try and see the film I have. There is nearly sixty hours of footage so this will take at least two weeks of  non stop viewing. Once I have a sense of the whole film I will start picking out individual moments I want to highlight and structure the rest of the film around. When I have a rough cut I will start working with a composer on an original score to be recorded for the film. I am hoping to finish by the end of October, but it might be the end of the year.

I will post updates on press and screenings for the film once it is finished on the Tiny Spark Productions website and the films facebook page. The film is intended for the large screen and am hoping it will be exhibited in this way before it reaches the internet.

In the meantime I definitely want to keep collecting and posting your responses to the project here on this site as I know there are more to come and I have been really moved by the ones I have had so far. Even the negative ones have been interesting. It seems, this project has captured peoples imaginations in some way.

If you would like to post a response, in any form, to any of the themes of the film, to the act of stopping and standing still, the way we relate to nature and our own mortality or  the attempts to capture the moments in which we exist, then email me direct or at staythesame@tinysparkproductions.com

Below are all of the responses I have had so far over the year:

#1 An email from mum

#2 An email from Olivia

#3 Jim Manthorpe,

#4 Jessica Townsend – Back to future,

#5 Ailidh Morrison,

#6 Mac’s Gate

#7 Emma Lindley

#8 Dad

#9 What the locals think

#10 Solargraphs

#11 Mum & patron saints of obscurity

#12 Abby Boutlebee

 #13 Mia’s Timeline

#14 The Telegraph & Tabloids

#15 Radio 4 Listeners

#16 Stuart Watson

#17 Portraits of a South African village

#18 Fiona McCade@The Scotsman

#19 Poem received

#20 A Drawing by Rhona

#21 Rufus Gerrard-Wright

#22 Small cat arrives in post

#23 Sarah Hill wishes I had been at the cinema

#24 Simon Lynch who I haven’t seen in ten years

#25 Overtime by Claudia Firth

#26 Thomas Thwaites

#27 Sleep Stills by Pippa Best

#28 Henry Darke sings Stay the Same

#29 In memory of Nick Darke

Thank you again to everyone who has submitted a response.

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