Weird on a personal level.

"Go Into The Story" is my home page every time I boot up Safari (my tiny attempt at a writer's regimen - if I'm going to procrastinate on the internet then at least let me procrastinate about writing, right? Right....?) and of course, every time I boot it up there seems to be another (compelling it has to be said) story about the inner workings of Hollywood or some such world a million miles away from me.

And then tonight I boot up the 'net and find this and now I'm the owner of a fuzzy kind of smile.

It's not just the fact it's a video from the same country and county as myself. It's not even the fact that it's also from a local production company whose script competition I entered earlier this year (didn't get through but it was a fun writing exercise - even if it did apparently birth a whole bunch of Hitchcock clones due to the "ambiguity" of the given pitch).

No, the inciting incident of my perpetual grin is that I just saw Dave, one of the fellas that I work with during my 9-5 existence, captured shooting the breeze as part of the above promo. A promo showcased on the site that I visit daily for my screen-writing pep talks.

So congratulations "Go Into The Story." You now truly are my friendly neighbourhood screen-writing blog. Thanks for the splendidly surreal moment and a Merry Christmas to you all.

Wow, Jack, that's pretty damn cool -- in a Carl Jung synchronicity way. I can't even remember how I stumbled onto the video. I saw the frozen image on YouTube and for whatever reason figured I needed to hit play. I think it's a pretty terrific video and having worked with people out in the field in production, it captured a lot of the camaraderie of that experience - us against the world, this band of dreamers.

But I'm really happy it has a connection to you.

Please pass along my kudos to the production company folks. And say hey to Dave.

And to you, thanks for the story. I enjoyed it a lot!

"Us against the world - this band of dreamers"

You couldn't have summed it up better Scott. This, of all the things I have made, gave me the most joy because it came from the heart, and from some very personal experiences!

I am so thrilled that it resonates with people and their own experiences in art - that alone makes it worthwhile whether we win the competition or not!

Or course if we win the competition Raindance film festival will use it as their official trailer for 2011 and fund our next film, so I won't pretend that it's not a big deal for us!

'Jack' - your story made me smile but I assume your handle is an alias, look me up on twitter @DavidMReynolds

@Dave: Please stay in touch re the Raindance competition. Feel free to email me with more of your background. Always love to learn about writers and filmmakers. Do what I can to promote indie films.

To be honest, I came home from the pub last night after one to many pints, and was pleasantly surprised to see this here.

This video had synchronicity for me as well in that everyone was talking about it yesterday on the only other film site (apart from GITS Club) I visit in a daily basis, the forums over at OTT Films.

The General section is only open to members, but this vid inspired such responses as:

Me: Great little film. Sound isn't available where I work, but that didn't dent my enjoyment of the flick. Makes me feel guilty for not making a short for so long (although I have been writing, so it's not all bad).

Leilani: Yeah.. I watched that earlier and went straight to look over all my shoot photos. The best days I had this year were on OTT Shoots!

Michael Stanmore (now living I Sydney): It's really nice. And reminds me of OTT so much I almost choked up. Miss you guys.


@Dave – Wish you all the best re. the Raindance comp. This short is brilliant!

Yeah,....that's exactly what it's like. Wonderful.