{"id":1340,"date":"2018-06-26T00:42:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T23:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2018-06-26T00:42:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T23:42:29","slug":"such-a-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2018\/06\/such-a-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Such a Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, my! In the words of the one and only Elvis, \u201cWhat a night it was! It really was, such a night!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday we had the first ever screening of Only the Lonely, the short film I wrote last year with Veronique Christie, courtesy of Dan Films, our production company, led by Julie Baines. I am still on a high.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d seen it but only on a laptop and before the final sound had been laid and it had been signed off. Watching it on a screen was an indescribable feeling. Everyone concerned had done a marvellous job, including our wonderful talent, led by Anna Calder Marshall and Souad Faress; our director Clare Holman; DOP; sound editor; everyone! And the end product is a short to be proud of, and I am!<\/p>\n<p>The screening was at the Horse Hospital, in Bloomsbury, a beautiful, bijou venue which added to the atmosphere and it was a thrill to see cast, crew, family, friends, contributors &#8211; without whose generosity it would never have been made so quickly and so well &#8211; and industry professionals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1341\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1341\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/A5D93820-025B-49A2-8D94-B5A02F5FE80C-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/A5D93820-025B-49A2-8D94-B5A02F5FE80C-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/A5D93820-025B-49A2-8D94-B5A02F5FE80C-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/A5D93820-025B-49A2-8D94-B5A02F5FE80C-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/A5D93820-025B-49A2-8D94-B5A02F5FE80C.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Writers<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1342\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1342\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/8D561CB5-7C92-4243-B175-8472D0DBE949-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/8D561CB5-7C92-4243-B175-8472D0DBE949-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/8D561CB5-7C92-4243-B175-8472D0DBE949-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/8D561CB5-7C92-4243-B175-8472D0DBE949-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/8D561CB5-7C92-4243-B175-8472D0DBE949.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Calder Marshall and David Burke<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And now to see&#8230;drumroll&#8230;what happens next? Watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, my! In the words of the one and only Elvis, \u201cWhat a night it was! It really was, such a night!\u201d Last Friday we had the first ever screening of Only the Lonely, the short film I wrote last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2018\/06\/such-a-night\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[802,772,774,773,770,803,804,771],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anna-calder-marshall","tag-clare-holman","tag-dan-films","tag-julie-baines","tag-only-the-lonely","tag-souad-faress","tag-the-horse-hospital","tag-veronique-christie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}