Another Blatant Promotional Push...

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.

Good news...we're on the IMDB. Yey! Check it out and vote/leave comments/whatever. Another Film In The Woods IMDB 

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.

ANOTHER FILM IN THE WOODS from Danny Naylor on Vimeo.
See ya on the flip side, Danny.

'ANOTHER FILM IN THE WOODS' is here!

Well, well, well then...

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. 

See ya on the flip side, Danny.

Finito

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.

Now let me recover. Updates soon.

See ya on the flip side. Danny.

NEW SHORT FILM BITCHES

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 MUSIC VIDEOS , 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.

Go HERE for some movie stills.

See ya on the flip side...Danny

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Not the face...please...

Well, hello young roughiuns.

Punt a blog time while I sup a cup of Twinings Rich & Velvity smooth cwwwooofee and reflect on viewing a few depressing films over the weekend (Killer Joe, Tyrannosaurs, Inside Job)...

Anyway, updates smashed up on Vimeo. So if you're bored of watching blokes with snazzy camera lenses rendering shit in slow-mo on FCPro, check it out. Add me, slate me, do whatever that takes your mind from knowing you've wasted brain-cells commenting on something so meaningless.

Also, I've done a few promo posters for a couple of scripts, being that its apparently the "in thing" to do nowadays. Check out the Flickr stream to the right.

Back on to ventures of the month. I've been eying this for a few years, the 2dayslater film competition. Basically, they set out a brief which mainly involves certain items that the film has to have or a saying and you make a 10 minute short film in 2 days (supposidly, although there will be some cheating bastards). So, I've roped in Chris Earl again to see if we can bang something up together. I've got an idea...but keep thinking there's gonna be shit-loads of films set in the woods (its simple, its convenient, I get it) where shit goes off. So I dunno where to go...brainstorming is needed.

In other news...another rejection from Bath Film Festival IMDb Script to Screen competition. One maybe thinks about pulling out the most offensive thing I've ever written (if I can find it) and maybe put it forward for something.

There's still a few more in the wings (Amazon Studios, Back In the Box, etc) so when someone once asked me if I've ever paid my dues, I said; "Paid my dues? Yes, sir. The cheque is in the mail."

See ya on the flip side...Danny

-M E R R I N - Unleashed

As mentioned in the previous blog, here's the music video for 'Henry Kane' by -M E R R IN - on the night he smashes up the Nambucca live in London.

Enjoy.

See ya on the flip side...Danny