Footage?

It has now been over a month since Laurie advised me to get a copy of the footage I plan on using to experiment with in order to generate practice based research. I have contacted James several times over the past two weeks and he appears to just be making excuses at this point. I now plan on writing and shooting my own short film. I realise this is a big task but I don't have to waste waiting for James to get back to me.