A little bit of a gentle poke to remind you good people that Another Film in the Woods will be playing at Showroom Shorts tomorrow (Tuesday 20th November).
I'll be spamming book of the face and twatter with further details but as this is another reminder...there's a few short films playing and a little bit of a birthday bash going on that kicks off at 7:30pm till 10pm.
The short is scheduled to be 2nd to last on, around 9:15pm - 9:30pm in the Showroom bar area. Drop me an email/message/text/phone call/postcard/letter if your coming or want further info and I'll enlighten you.
I'll be there at 7:30pm till 8:15pm as I'll be running off to one of the screening rooms to watch a flick. But I'll be out at 9:10pm for the rest of the night.
Currently having a very productive week away from the monotony of the 9 to 5. What have I been doing? Pretty much as little as possible aka old school fuck all (bath swishing and the like). In between the nothingness, there's been a wind down of script re-writing and movie watching.
Anyway, as no one really gives a fuck about what I've been up to privately, its time for an update of the short opus that is Another Film in The Woods.
I was disappointed it didn't get into the 2 Days Later Competition. They've posted the winners up and...I enjoyed them.
The main winner has a good concept but severely overlong. The audience winner was funny. A bastardised product of the Human Centipede/Hostel torture porn "genre" where abusing innocent characters in amusingly gory ways without a real point apart from having a cheeky premise (Kebab shop owners is a nutcase) seems to be popular. Anyway, check em out and see what you think.
Compared to Woods? Make you're own mind up. I'm not bitter.
Which leads on to...Its getting screened in Sheffield! The film will be playing at the Showroom Shorts this Tuesday 20th November.
There's a few short films playing and a little bit of a birthday bash going on that kicks off at 7:30pm till 10pm. I'll be dotting about as ironically enough, I've tickets to see Army of Darkness (aka Evil Dead 3) on the same night.
Anyway, its free. So if you can come, let me know and I'll hopefully meet up with you for a chuckle. I'll abuse Facebook and Twitter to spam you all.
Another day, another amazing sales pitch for the short film for people who haven't seen it and a few more updates.
Just like to say thanks to the people who have watched the short and given some good feedback. Hey, people enjoy it. Made me a happy bunny. The cast are happy with the film too which is always a good feeling. (shout out to the lead actress Amber Brookes, follow her on TWITTER).
Bad news first...the film didn't get into the 2 Days Later film competition that the film was made for.
Now, there's a variety of reasons as to why I think this happened, and I take full responsibility. The DVD screener I sent isn't the final version for one, and it wasn't rendered correctly. It had a jittery effect due to a interlace problem (tech geek bollocks) that was eventually fixed for the version you see online and sent to the cast & crew. My mistake for running out of time and not being able to fix it.
Another reason? The film is sound heavy. A lot of scene transitions and dialogue scenes are linked with a lot of sound FX. The screener I sent wasn't 100% with these tracks and therefore is rather jolting and amateurish. Not to say the final version is on a level to David Fincher, but its a difference that sets a level of watchable and unwatchable.
Yet another? They may have collared that it wasn't shot slightly within the 2 day timeline? It was shot in a day, but had a couple of days of pre-production and a couple for post. Sue me.
Final reason? They may have thought it was shite? More than likely this one...but compared to what was screened and won last year...ah, well, its all subjective.
Semi-good news...Even though I've missed the deadline for halloween film festivals this year, I'll be sending this out for next year so hopefully it has a life in the future.
Another plus point was seeing my good buddie Chris Purdie aka MERRIN playing a live set at the Playhouse in Northampton. In his set-list he played Henry Kane with the MUSIC VIDEO I directed for him as the visuals for his stage show. Check it out HERE.
Anyway, its time to wind-down preparing for Christmas. Will be attending the Celluloid Screams festival at the end of the month to check out some horror flicks and shorts. Followed up by a trip back to Liverpool and seeing Rob Zombie in Manchester at the end of November. In-between that will be writing and movie watching.
Anyway, as the title suggests, below is another blatant promotional push. We're also on VIMEO. Thanks.
No OTT introduction. No hype. No ridiculous build up.
Watch. Enjoy. Comment. Be gentle.
"Another Film In The Woods" Woke up. Bought Breakfast. Had to survive. A horror short where 'Run Lola Run' meets 'The Evil Dead'. On the way back from picking up breakfast, Mandy falls into mysterious and dangerous woodland where she has to run for her life and hope to make it home in one piece.
Well, after Monday nights finale that lasted till 5am Tuesday morning allowing me 1 hour of sleep... The short film was finished
Stressing over the submission, knowing things that are wrong, the quality of the screener not being up to scratch... The soundtrack... A few problems I've noticed that other's may not. But what the fuck? It's done now so well see what happens.
'Another Film in the Woods' will be unleashed hopefully by the end of the week for your viewing pleasure.
I'll keep it brief but.. It's rather fun and looks great.
Well, well, well, haven't we been a busy little bee.
You may have seen my moody post of a TEASER poster a few weeks ago. Well me and Chris Earl have been busy working hard on a short film called 'Another Film In the Woods'.
Have got back into the swing of things with a couple of MUSICVIDEOS
, it was high time to get on the short narrative film front. So with a few competitions lined up, me and Chris thought we'd delve into doing a short 10 minute horror comedy.
Run Lola Run meets The Evil Dead was the idea.
So through taking a few hours out to write, audition, and cast the flick we finally got things in place. Saturday just gone, we rallied the troops and shot our film with a all girl cast;
Amber Brookes
Nicola Chance
Rebecca Lund
Julia Bisby
It was a toughie and little Amber took a bit of a beating but she trooped on. In fact, they all did and I couldn't have thanked them enough.
I'm excited by the footage. Big time. Now to spend a day editing it and...who knows...we'll see if we got some fried gold with a techno soundtrack.
Been a bit of a monkey off my back. Now lets see what happens.
