Happy
New Year to one and all – I hope you had a good hogmanay. Do you
know what saddens me? Spell checks don't recognise
that word – hogmanay!
It was first used by Mary Queen of Scots in
1561 and may, indeed, have originated in France.
Here's
what the dictionary says: Hogmanay
(Scots:
[ˌhɔɡməˈneː]; English: /ˌhɒɡməˈneɪ/ HOG-mə-NAY) is the
Scots word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the
celebration of the New Year (Gregorian calendar) in the Scottish
manner.
And
by the way – all the spellings here are spelt
the English way.
So
now – I have put my film SoundZ on YouTube; it has had its film
festival run, screenings at Soho
Screening Rooms,
Harrow
Filmmakers, an
audience at NW
London Equity and
to an audience of shrinks; well doctors. They said I'd got it about
right with the schizophrenia but nobody can be hypnotised
over the phone and I said it was his
own
voice; he hypnotised
himself. 'oh yes,' they said . . . (SPOILER there).
I
made the film as an experiment to see if I could do all the jobs and
loved it. Those with good memories will remember me writing on here
about it.
When
you have seen it – when,
I hope – you can always go to the IMDb and write a review – the
link for that is at the bottom of the page and you are not obliged to
write a good one.
There
are 2 co-stars – a bird and a fox at around three minutes or so and
I hope you like it; click on this to view the move which is only 20 minutes long -
AND
FOR THE REVIEW:
you
will see other reviews which came from audiences at the screenings. But don't feel pressured.
