Reviewing the future

Reviewing the future...

Earlier this year, I decided to make a film about my 10 years fighting CLL (NOT coming to a cinema near you soon !) so I have been filming since early summer (2024). I'm hoping it's going to be a breakthrough in curing insomnia...

It's been a really interesting process but now I have about 30-40 hours of footage and a target running time of 15 minutes! I don't think that's going to work !

So instead of making just one longform film, I'm going to make a series of shorter films and release them in stages from January 15th onwards.

Then at the end, I will join them all together to create the original film I intended to make. I think we've all become accustomed to watching shorter videos, particularly in the YouTube age. But hopefully people will be willing to 'snack' on bitesize chapters and find them interesting enough to watch the larger expanded film afterwards.

That said, of course, the reason for making the film remains exactly the same as the motivation for writing the blogs - I do it for my own selfish reasons. It is a key tool in my management of my own mental health. So if nobody at all watches any of it, then no problem. I'm not looking to get a film contract out of it!

I know that there will be those who accuse me of wallowing in my own misery or holding my own pity party. To be honest, I think that says more about them than it does about me. But the reality is that - in terms of this stuff - I stopped caring about what people thought many many moons ago. I refuse to subjugate the management of my own mental health simply to placate someone with doubtful motives.

The first film will come out on January 15th next year - exactly 10 years after I was diagnosed.

OK - update and rant over. Back to the editing. Love you all.

Stay Strong. Fight hard. Laugh lots.