I have found a ‘day job’, that didn’t take long really. I’m not starting for a couple of weeks and I also don’t know how much I should say about it, suffice to say it is for the government (yes really). It isn’t some kind of spy work, it is a pretty normal job structure-wise; Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm with time-and-a-half if I volunteer to go in on a Saturday.

My radio work won’t suffer too much as a result of this, although what it does to the rest of my plans for the year remains to be seen. There might also be an effect on the blog too, although as it’s a secretive sort of job then I won’t be able to report on the day to day aspect. The filming will be moved to just Saturdays and Sundays if possible, I’ve grown used to working on a Sunday after all (and that’s without being paid double time) so it won’t make much difference.

To help speed up the raising of finance to get the first few film projects off the ground, I experimented with a KickStarter account. I set it up with one particular project in mind and started to fill in all the right forms. I got all the way to the end of the process and it told me that I was missing something from the form. By this time I had grown sick of it and deleted the whole account, nothing is worth that much pissing about. There must be other ‘crowd funding’ sites that work in the same way, so I was do some investigation before putting my flag down. The rewards system is a little strange in that you have to give away some kind of incentive to encourage more donations. As the filmed pieces are going to be made available for free on the Internet there isn’t really anything that springs to mind as a prize.

With regards the film about The Sunday Alternative, I think I have come up with some good incentives. Wait and see what I have to offer when the project goes live on Indie-Go-Go.

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