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Ormondroyd Started conversation Jun 5, 2004
It is a strange but exciting experience seeing your own face on a full-size cinema screen for the first time. It happened to me yesterday.
I was up there on the screen at the Pictureville cinema in Bradford due to the annual screening of Bradford University electronic media students' work. I'd taken part in two of the short films on display, one as an on-screen actor and the other as a voice-over artist, acting the part of a prosecuting counsel for a courtroom scene in an animated film.
The film in which I actually appeared looked OK. I was shown in close-up and so was grateful for some kindly lighting. Due to some technical problems the picture became pixillated in places, so I had the eerie experience of seeing my face dissolve into a lot of little squares.
But I was particularly pleased with 'The Perfect Witness', the short film for which I did a voice-over. It is, I know, rather egotistical to like the sound of your own voice, but I did like the sound of it echoing around the auditorium in digital stereo. I honestly felt that I and the two friends of mine who'd played the other characters had done a good, professional-sounding job.
Could this be the start of a new career? 
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 5, 2004
About 15 years ago the English National Opera used some of its staff on posters to promote its opera season, and one of them was a friend of mine who was a stagehand at The Colisseum. So there I was one day driving around the Hammersmith one way system, and I suddenly see a 15 foot high picture of my mate plastered on one of the supports of the Hammersmith flyover, naked to the waist and looking all buff, and with his dreadlocks tumbling around his shoulders.
'Bloody 'ell, that's Karl!' I said as I nearly drove off the road 
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Phil Posted Jun 7, 2004
Well done Ormy. I'll bet it felt good to see the hard work you've put in. But then again to be met by someone on the way into the cinema for the DNA day stuff with "The cheques in the post" was also a good thing 
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Ormondroyd Posted Jun 7, 2004
'The Brad Pitt of Bradford'. It has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? 
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Peta Posted Jun 8, 2004
I can see the billboards now -
Ormondroyd... A combination of Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford...
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