h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

And Harry Potter as a film is a lot of fun. Though if at two and a half hours you still noticed the bits missing, how are they going to manage the later books which seem to get exponentially bigger. I couldn't help feeling it would have been better served as a children's tv mini-series. The sort shown at about six o'clock on winter Sunday evenings.

Meanwhile my own film is giving me various headaches as I battle on to get sound and video sync'd together and then cut back into a manageable shape.

Need sleep.

I loved all the owls in Harry Potter. So what's your own film about, or is it a secret?

It should be about twenty minutes long, and is about a man sitting at an outdoors cafe not being able to smoke his cigarette. I have other things going on as well with other people in the park, but it's all kindof orchestrated by this man's thwarted attempts to light up.
Hopefully it will work.
It's definately exciting to do.

The owls in Harry Potter are funny as occasionally they noticeably 'do not do the acting thing'. There was Harry's in his dorm closing its eyes, turning its head around and hoping that if it shut its eyes all the people, the noise and confusion wouldn't be there any more.

Ah, very cool. I studied filmmaking back in college.