Tuesday morning. Finally got up on time and got into work at a decent hour. Did a lesson with the first years again, showed them the 10 minute film school from El Mariachi, one of my favourite bits of inspirational filmmaking material. Seemed like they get it. Plus for fun I showed them "Bedhead" Robert Rodriguez' first short film.

Then we got into where they are up to with their movie. Shocked to discover they still haven't cast it yet. We're shooting next week, I pointed out, whether you have someone to shoot or not, so better get moving. But what if we can't find anyone? they said. Well you are not going to be shooting anything then are you. Reminded them that the point of the exercise was not to have me sort it all out for them but for to them to make it happen. A flurry of phone calls later they started to get something together.

Spent the afternoon getting my new music setup together, more RAM for my laptop and a music interface box for it. When I get some money I'll buy myself one of those fab new USB music keyboards so I can play software synths on the computer.

Oh yeah and PLUS I got some email from a friend of mine. Julian Kershaw is an orchestrator, who has worked on some really cool movies. He's said he'll be happy to help me out arranging my score. I went to school with him. But this was about 40 years ago when we first met, as we met at infants or junior school. Wow, huh? Hooked up with him a couple of years ago on Friends Reunited and we got on like a housefire.

We got the team, we got the talent. Plus I'm up to page 65 on the script so things are going pretty well.