Daragh HENCHY
Management Consultant, Musician, Astrophysicist, Irish-Australian, Cognitive scientist, Design Thinker
Location Sydney
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One of the very first experiences I had was to make a 7minute short film. I didn't have a proper script, it was really only a first draft. I hadn't a beat sheet. I shot it and directed it, giving cues to the actors during the shoot. We shot it in two days. I then discovered that I had to fill in all the gaps in Editing. I was up till 3 in the morning then...
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anchovies....huh?
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Henri sits. The table is small and round. On it is a small coffee, and a single biscuit in a wrapper. Henri tears the wrapper carefully, breaks off half of the biscuit and eats in tiny bites, pausing to sip the espresso occasionally.
"Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life" and sighs.
"Would, um, eh, Monsieur, care for a...
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Cafe Owner: "They seem mindful, they only eat half the biscuit with their café au lait. They occasionally seem hungover or weary."
Librarian : "They are quiet and studious, making notes and asking for unusual books and periodicals" They speak English quite well I think" -
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I recently watched "The Eye of the Storm" with Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis. The characters were pretty unlikeable and difficult to relate to, sort of fossils from another age, unkind and self obsessed. They were sort of pawns in a social study. I'm not sure how effective the script was in bringing the internal lives of these people in to engaging action and...
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Henri journeys into Apples and Oranges in pursuit of the villain. Henri is going to trap the villain and return him. Henri is seduced by Mme George and is trapped and realises that he is a fool. The attempt to escape buries him deeper, every choice is a bad one from painting to painting each character is inept, duplicitous, uncaring, self obsessed,...
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I found this difficult. It drove me to really embue my character with real emotions and motivations. beyond just a tool for the plot. Which was great but also opened an avenue that makes me think what is the limit to character development? How far to you go here?
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He's relentless, and utterly consistent, no flexibility at all, and his only redemption/realisation comes at the very end of the film. powerful stuff
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Sergeant Gerry Boyle played Brendan Gleeson in The Guard policeman ("Guard") in the remote west of Ireland. His background is hinted at, and outwardly he shows little interest in his job. He's quite a subversive force and has absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought by the FBI agent, but his values are...
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thanks for the 5 Finger pitch, very useful.
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It would be great to have a framework of how themes/ideas are expressed in different structures. what sorts of screenplays are better exposed in 3 acts or as a mosaic, or 2 acts or 4 , or backwards like Momento or Irreversible. I guess it's an artistic choice and not a formula. Audiences are so accustomed to a beginning, middle and end that it's hard to mess...
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In I,Tonya the first act really focusses on back story and character. set u. ACT II is where she leaves home, assets independence and ultimately fails through a series of set backs despite some indications of her brilliance on the ice. ACT III begins when she is down and out and gets a shot at redemption.
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in music this form exists also. It's sometimes so overt that it's hard to ignore. I wonder if the theme exposition, development and recapitulation can be a guide to screenwriting
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A time travel adventure through the 20th century in an interactive graphic novel format
Two young caberet dancers in Paris arrive at The Blue Parrot
After a unexpected crime they turn to sleuthing Looking to defeat an unknown ominous force
But as they tumble though the decades the series of defeats leads to desperation and resilience
I like this...
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A musical murder mystery set in Egypt in the 1930s written for the stage a sort of Agatha Christie meets The Mummy
A local director stages a village musical about a young graduate of Egyptology and his adventure in Egypt
Looking to put on the best production yet, and show how the protagonist can find the lost professor and the valuable artefact and keep...
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Murder Mystery, Period Drama, Fantasy feature length movie
A Middle Aged Detective with a waning heart
Looking to catch a killer in an impossible crime
But the nature of the murder is not quite of our world
Examines whether Love in Art leads to War and delves in to the artistic changes between the 19th C, 3rd Empired / Neoclassicism and Modernism...
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I'm interested in how the format of a screenplay can encompass elements such as scene directions, visuals, sounds versus how much information much goes in to the characters and dialogue. How much needs to conveyed appropriately for an actor, cinematographer, director to interpret accurately. The screenplay of I,Tonya that I read, has strong indicators for...
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My detective wants to catch the murderer but they're not possible to find, he wants to know a life of love, but he can only have it for a while and he wants to know the truth, but that doesn't exist in our world
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I read The Two Popes (I hadn't seen) and I,Tonya; both of these are about real events that occurred and I had a reasonable understanding of the plot beforehand. However it was intriguing to see how the writer presented the story. In I, Tonya, the emphasis was on the characters initially, and the plot aspects only kicking in later. It's presented...
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Hello all, I am definitely intrigued by David Mamet as a writer, and also Wim Wenders. One of my favourite lines is from Paris, Texas, when Travis, played by Harry Dean Stanton says, "I knew these people...these two people". I've written a number of scripts, a lot for business/commercials purposes but never completed one for 'arts' sake. just finished a...
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This really helping. I began also to wonder what other phrases might be useful. Would different phrases trigger different directions? How about "once upon a time...", or "what interested me about this was..." or "suddenly..." or "as the fog lifted..." etc?
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Emma said that mathematics and government were two subjects that should work in harmony. There really should be a ministry of mathematics, dedicated to a purist approach to policy decision-making. Seamus wasn't so sure and said that given what politicians had already done with statistics, they'd probably ruin geometry also, and we'd end up with everything...
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I was sitting in the hotel bar last evening and a couple of blokes came in. They were probably high, on ice or something, scraggly looking, fidgety. One of them was remarkable, mainly because of he could keep still and was wearing a pair of those ~1980s style big radio headphones with those aerials....
"Yee mate, it's saturday noight, me and Spanner is...
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The 2 ashtrays were placed on the table waiting to be potted. She tended them both equally with thin stalks of barely smoked gaspers.
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It's a quiet room, away from the city, in a mountain hotel. It's raining outside and mist obscures the views. There couldn't be a more focussed place to write. As hands reach out, as fingertips touch buttons, the bar refrigerator buzzes into life; sad, old and only 1 and 1/2 stars of energy efficiency, it tells the writer, in its annoying vibrato, that no...
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I find that if I can take myself away for a few days somewhere that a little unfamiliar and quiet I can really get work done
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Yes this is great. Oftentime one over looks reward the 'team' for group behaviors and over emphasises the individuals.
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Hard to answer this question as 'it depends' on the project type, complexity, volatility etc. I would suggest that the 10%, 20%, 40% and 70% mark of the overall project timeframe as a rule of thumb notwithstanding reacting to a major risk or issue
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Useful to see these strategies for dealing with variances. I can use this as a check list for client discussions when dealing with changes on a project
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This is a really clear and powerful approach. This would get interesting with a large complex set of interdependent tasks !!
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I've encountered many projects that have been scoped from the beginning to the critical path, usually to the detriment of the project timeframe. It can be overly optimistic. Or many times I have seen the project scoping include 'built-in' contingency or buffer to the critical path, making the project plan fat and expensive. It's better to separate the CP and...
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This is a useful model that a PjM could use to ensure diversity in the project and be able to identify the role with project team members. Thanks!
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It would be good to know a guideline of what budget items are or are not tracked. On a project plan for >2000hours it may be inefficient to track every penny/cent. What would be a good petty cash or minimum spend to track?
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It's a useful model. Over the life time of the project, stakeholders can move between quadrants. This makes it interesting to keep track of, and manage
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Comments are growing less ! :-) For changing objectives, I think its worthwhile to consider the timeframe, ROI and complexity. Obviously new or changed objectives that lead to a longer time, more complexity and a lower ROI may be too far from the original course. Clarity on objectives allows one to retain the most important ones
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My project is the development of a learning course of Improvisation in Business. My objectives are 1) To educate staff on the value of improvisation versus structured process 2) Introduce the principles of improvisation 3) Use the world of musical improvisations as a learning tool to create interest and accelerate learning and 4) apply the learning in a...
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I've used MosCoW in terms of individual requirements on a project but not as a framework for overall objectives
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There have been a number of precedents over the last 2 decades in sending probes to mars. The project should be able to benefit from these other missions (not least of all ensuring that they are all working in the metric system!). The risk of the launch, flight and arrival should there be medium or low. The risk of the mission success would more likely then...
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Is this a reference diagram or would this be used for calculating risk (I've seen other models of risk = impact x likelihood)
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just to add,... lack of optimal grouping of work and tasks in to workstreams and their dependancies can also be a factor
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Unsuccessful projects I have been involved with have had a couple of consistent factors, 1) Lack of clarity around the goal or scope and 2) Stakeholders or Sponsors that were not aligned or had conflicting ideas of what the project should deliver. The consequences were that the project deliverables took longer (and cost more) and/or the scope had to be changed...
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Whilst good project planning of things, events and tasks have been useful in helping a project being successful, the aspect that I have seen as one of the most important is that of creating, developing and driving teamwork. (assuming the project is feasible) A team that works well together has clear roles but also the freedom to improvise and support each...
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Useful examples, and good to see the different types of projects that can cause different dynamics or uses of project management.
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It's had lot understand exactly what they are talking about. Perhaps so examples would be enlightening. One persons sense of what detail is, might be abstracted to another level by someone else. I guess this is a kind of pacing in writing that could mirror the real world, such as how long it takes to do or saw something in comparison with how detailed a writer...
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Daragh HENCHY replied to Helen Addyman
I like the Time Square sketch. Seems like could just stream the scene in words. Perhaps in a distracting environment this breeds it's own style of writing.
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Daragh HENCHY replied to dj pressley
Ooh, gothic!
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(2/2) The answer was staring his in he the face all along. In the end, he had just nodded at the doctor, when his mother had finished talking and he put down his pen and asked him, ‘would you like a little peace and quiet for a while?’. He pulled out the bentwood chair sat down and immediately had a great idea for the end of the novel although he wasn't sure...
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PLEASE COMMENT, thanks ! Best place to write: He had, in fact, two windows. It was a corner room. He could look north across the grounds, across the tops of the houses, towards the distant hills and get a sense of space and nature, or west at the cracked cement plastered wall, five feet from his window sill reminding him of the bleak, under funded world of...
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PLEASE COMMENT THANKS! Worst place to write: I'm sorry you can't do that here. Why not? It's not appropriate, you are disturbing the other people. They look pretty disturbed already. Sir, that is an ignorant and insulting remark. Sorry, but I am just trying to find a spot to write. That's the problem, they think you are writing about them, and it is disturbing...
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(2/2) All those times he was talking with writer friends, telling them that trying to finish his novel was driving him crazy. The answer was staring his in he the face all along. In the end, he had just nodded at the doctor, when his mother had finished talking and he put down his pen and asked him, ‘would you like a little peace and quiet for a while?’. He...
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Best place to write: He had, in fact, two windows. It was a corner room. He could look north across the grounds, across the tops of the houses, towards the distant hills and get a sense of space and nature, or west at the cracked cement plastered wall, five feet from his window sill reminding him of the bleak, under funded world of public hospitals that he was...
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Worst place to write: I'm sorry you can't do that here. Why not? It's not appropriate, you are disturbing the other people. They look pretty disturbed already. Sir, that is an ignorant and insulting remark. Sorry, but I am just trying to find a spot to write. That's the problem, they think you are writing about them, and it is disturbing them. Ha! I can see...
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Same character different perspective : What a dickhead! He had spent most of the game observing that lanky tosser. Prancing about in his yellow shoes, with the yellow laces and a matching yellow shirt. Seriously, did he think he was playing for Brazil? He was gonna get a right rude awakening joining this soccer club. What a dick! He had scored four goals in...
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He was on his way home from soccer practice. His legs were tired and he was looking forward to a hot shower. His new lemon-coloured soccer boots had a been sniggered at by a few of the others. It was only his second time joining local team practice since he moved to this area. As the train jolted, his foot swung back and forth over his crossed legs, like a...
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Daragh HENCHY replied to Vilma Thompson
Yes this is an interesting idea, anyone in Singapore??
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It's quite the case of finding stolen moments in the day where you have a little solace. I tend to find these moments while traveling. My day is consumed with my job so I find these times in the back of a cab, on a metro train, and many times, on an airplane.
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Daragh HENCHY replied to Mimi Hayton
I am seeing you merrily skipping as I read this...Fact!
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I can't think of fiction as a major input, it seems unreal and unnecessary. I have lived and worked in 10 countries in the last 22 yrs and feel I have seen enough to apply that echoes the adage, 'truth is stranger than fiction' !
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These writers all have deep personal reason for writing. Not functional at all, like a journalist or copywriter. Almost a compulsion based on experience or home life and family influences
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(One fact, three fiction) After he finished his degree in Astrophysics, it was hard to find a job, and as a result ended up taking a year off, with what little money he had, to tour South America. There he met Adelita, a Chilean, whose father, Atahualpa happened to work at the European Southern Observatory. Adelita fell pregnant, and to avert embarrassing...
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This is my paragraph with one fact. It's also the one with three fictional items. There is the opposite paragraph directly blow this post with the other version. I hope this clarifies things.
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[one fact]Life as a security guard is not as bad as people think. The wages aren't great. He doesn't own a car, and walks to work. He sees them, pretending to respect his authority, but silently feeling sorry for him. He doesn't really care. He used to, but over the years that feeling went away. He can't remember when. Occasionally, he thinks maybe he should...
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After he finished his degree in Astrophysics, it was hard to find a job, and as a result ended up taking a year off, with what little money he had, to tour South America. There he met Adelita, a Chilean, whose father, Atahualpa happened to work at the European Southern Observatory. Adelita fell pregnant, and to avert embarrassing social commentary, and care...
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I wonder if there is a study of behavioural types of entrepreneurs, such as DISC or MBTI?
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For a lot of business enterprises, I observe institutionalised failure for the most part. Ideas bubble up from individuals or teams but largely dissipate into the company ether. I suspect that there is a large amount of entrepreneurs that fail over and over again, perhaps until they give up, or get one idea that works, then forgetting about all the...
