{"id":12165,"date":"2017-06-01T15:41:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T14:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12165"},"modified":"2017-06-02T13:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T12:25:05","slug":"film-blogathon-0017-first-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12165","title":{"rendered":"Film Blogathon 00\/17: First Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well.<\/p>\n<p>This is another fine mess you&#8217;ve got me in to.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the last time I listen to you.<\/p>\n<p>You and your &#8216;good ideas&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Pah!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The film blogathon.<\/p>\n<p>Well.<\/p>\n<p>The object is to produce ten film reviews.<\/p>\n<p>In a month.<\/p>\n<p>This month, to be precise.<\/p>\n<p>June.<\/p>\n<p>2017.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time and in a land far, far away, I used to write film reviews for real cash money.<\/p>\n<p>They weren&#8217;t much cop, those reviews, but that wasn&#8217;t the point.<\/p>\n<p>I would bang out a bunch of <del>worms<\/del> words, send them off to a faceless cog in the wheel of the uber-capitalist world of publishing and, a couple of (if I was lucky) months later, a cheque would slip through the letterbox.<\/p>\n<p>And promptly get eaten up by my overdraft.<\/p>\n<p>But that was the point.<\/p>\n<p>I got paid for it.<\/p>\n<p>So when my ideas self said to my non-ideas self &#8216;I know, self, let&#8217;s bang out ten film reviews in a month just to keep on top of the writing game&#8217;, it all seemed so easy.<\/p>\n<p>But here, now, on the first of June 2017 (pinch, punch, by the way), it looks much less easy.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the <del>paramaters<\/del> <del>parameteurs<\/del> parameters are fairly easy:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Avoid using the word parameters<\/li>\n<li>Be witty<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be dull (see #2 above)<\/li>\n<li>Avoid sweeping generalisations (unless sweeping generally is a Good Thing)<\/li>\n<li>Be engaging<\/li>\n<li>Keep the swears down to less than <del>5<\/del>\u00a0<del>10<\/del> 20 Really Bad Words per review<\/li>\n<li>Review any film that seems worthy of a review (doesn&#8217;t matter whether it has been seen before or not. It&#8217;s a film crying out for a review? Review it!)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Ten of those.<\/p>\n<p>In a month.<\/p>\n<p>Easy, eh?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>*strokes beard*<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, we shall see.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masher.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you need to check out Young Masher<\/a>, during this testing time.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/uptheworks.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave is joining in<\/a> too!<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re keeping us all company.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else up for it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well. This is another fine mess you&#8217;ve got me in to. It&#8217;s the last time I listen to you. You and your &#8216;good ideas&#8217;. Pah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}