28 Days (in one day)

Well we’ve been threatening it for a while and this Saturday we finally did it, we made a video for our mates Cassette Electrik for their track ’28 Days’.

OK, when I say ‘we’ I actually mean me n jas trotted about telling people what to do while some jolly nice people did most of the hard work. One of which people was Peter Allibone who shot and lit the whole thing amazingly, no really, he did a bang up job and added loads of ideas that we can take the credit for later. We also had the unlimited help of make-up artist and stylist Wendy Oliver, who was supposed to leave a good few hours before she finally did (cheers for that Wendy – by the way, how do you remove that pink make-up?). Of course mum made too much food, but that’s what mum does, and dad let us invade his garage again. And the band jumped about, stood still, took half a pace to the left, no a bit more, back a bit, now a bit more to the left…etc.. without hitting us too many times.

We now have the simple task of editing nearly 5 hours of footage into a 4 and a half minute clip. How hard can it be? See you in a few months.

As usual, too many photos of the shoot can be found here

The fun begins

Now the dust has settled, the cameras have been returned, the plates have been washed up… we begin the editing. So far, all going really well. The very rough edit seems to hold together. This movie making gig is a lark. Also, it’s first real test of our new rig. It’s almost as powerful as the computer in Superman III. That glowing blue light behind G is the power supply. It’s pimp.

Shooting ‘All the Time in the World’


Well we did it, and it wasn’t that painful at all. 24 hours of shooting in 2 days, about 300 cups of tea (plus the relevant cakes) and the help of some lovely people (no, really, they were lovely) we done shot a lil’ a movie in our garage. It went pretty much to plan, with still enough room to improvise a few shots here and there.

‘Nuff respec big up shout out thanks go to the cast and crew, they really did a bang up job and bought so much more to the project. Here’s a quick name check:

  • Neil Edmond, male lead – This is the second time we’ve locked you in our garage, this time it was for 2 days, one day we’ll get you a key cut.
  • Rosemary Smith, female lead – You had to deal with between 1 and 5 directors, thank you for not hitting us.
  • Colin Butler, director of photography – man you’ve got some sweet kit.
  • Paul Parsons, sound – sorry about the flight path.
  • Nathan McLaughlin, make-up FX – dude, that looked so good.
  • Kyle, grip – I say ‘grip’ but you cheerfully did all sorts, cheers fella.

Many photos of the shoot are here

ooo haven’t you grown?

Nathan McLaughlin (a lovely special effects make-up guy working on our little movie this weekend) sent us these images of the finished clay sculpt of an 80 year old Neil Edmond (our lead actor). The boy done good me thinks. Very good maybe? He’s right now making a silicon do-hickey thing from this mold that he then has to punch a gazilion holes in it to hand place each and every hair, which an 80 year old’s face is not too short of.