Creatively talking about a vacuum

Sounds a bit negative but as I was repeatedly reminded yesterday that’s a national trait .

Yesterday saw the first event held by Creative Scotland the new “national leader for Scotland’s arts, screen and creative industries.”. It was a good …

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Speakeasy producer in make-up scandal!

I. Don’t. Wear. Make up.
There. I said it.
But it just so happens I have applied make up. More than once actually…

Because sometimes I go on shoots. And sometimes the lights are hot and the actors need some …

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Speakeasy Summer Newsletter 2010

It’s been a while since we last did a newsletter but that’s because we’ve been so busy – here’s just some of the things we’ve been up to in the last few months.

For the view here for the actual …

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User generated content – A CFS hit

Well one of the big buzzes at the moment is User Generated Material (UGM) or maybe it’s CGM or possibly UCC but whatever acronym you know it as – the principal is the same. Getting the end user to generate …

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Service please!

Do your customers give you good service?

I know what you’re thinking – shouldn’t it be the other way round?

Well, yes it should. Except we’ve recently enjoyed a situation where the tables were turned, and a customer (“Client X”) …

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I’d like to thank the academy…

6 months into the year 2010 and Speakeasy have been very busy indeed. As well as the productions we make for our lovely clients, we have merged Orchard Communications into Speakeasy and moved all our London operations under one lovely …

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Unlucky for Some

In a pained and laboured effort to develop my “voice”, I recently wrote a short story for a women’s literature competition. Jim has kindly let me put a snippet up here. Enjoy!

“Unlucky for Some”

On the first morning I …

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