Here's the history page, a run down on the shorts that we've made, a timeline if you
will, a timeline of blood, sweat, tears and perhaps most nutritionally... donuts for breakfast. God bless you junk food!
Not About The Money - 2003
Our first film after leaving college. The basic plot centres on a hard as
nails heroine, a sassy young gangster lady named Vicky, who is out for revenge after her boss rapes her.
Looking back at it now, some six years later, it's hard to see where exactly
we went right in the film. It and therefore by extension us, lacked the maturity needed to make the plot work and bring the
audience in.
Thinking back, it would be a far better film if we'd just focused on the character
of Vicky. Her, on a mission going after a contract, but thats hindsight for you.
So it won't come as any surprise that it is very difficult for us to watch these days,
but let that be no reflection on the cast we had, they all did a great job and gave up a huge amount of their time to make
it happen.
Affinity - 2004
For some strange reason, Adam and I thought we might try a move
away from the whole guns and violence thing and have a go at something a little more thoughtful.
The story was simple enough, a young woman coming to terms with a recent tragedy in
her life. As the story unfolds we find out that the tragedy was the death of her husband at her own hand, as she
was an assassin of sorts.
The spin we wanted it to give was to show the inner struggle this woman was
having with her darker side, the side of her that pulled the trigger on her husband and how it was trying to take over her
life.
We needed two actresses to make things work, the Good Side and the Bad Side. We got
our Good Side in the form of Amy and she worked great, did everything that we asked, which was a lot!
Sadly there were no takers for the Bad Side, so we started the shoot with one actress,
filmed everything we could and then were left with half a film.
However, being stubborn and not easily defeated, we took the half footage and put it
together, the camera work and the lighting were all perfect and the central performance was fabulous.
Out The Back Way, In a Fast Car - 2005
The film that was never made, sort of.
We'd planned and prep'd for a film titled 'Dead Ground' over many months and eagerly
awaited the start of the shoot. We'd picked up the equipment early on the first morning and then settled in to
await the arrival of our cast.....we waited......and waited.....and just for a laugh waited some more. By a strange set of
circumstances, thought possible perhaps only in the pages of some bad movie script, it seemed none of the actors could
make it! Amazing, who'd believe it?
The exception being Adam's old friend Terry and I'm sure he's just gotten a little thrill
at seeing his name in print on a website not hosted by the Police.
Luckily for us, as we sat around at Barney's ((you all remember Barney?)) chewing the paint
off the walls, a rather pleasant chap called Tim popped in for a cup of tea and a biscuit.
Upon hearing our fateful news and agreeing that all talking props needed a good shouting
at, he leapt up and reached forth for his laptop.
Ladies and gentlemen, over the course of the next four hours, with some furious tea
drinking, 'Out The Back Way, In A Fast Car' was born!
Having tried and failed miserably with the gangster genre before, we thought it prudent
to damn well have another go at it! ((as it has been mentioned on the pages before, we're stubborn!))
But we had learnt the value of keeping the plot simple and easy to follow and given
the conditions the script was written under, the film turned out better than we could have expected and it gave us our very
first squib shot, on Tim no less ((a picture of which is in the gallery)).
Looking back, O.T.B.W was a great learning curve, it showed us what can be achieved
when under pressure and it feels good to watch it back and see a marked improvement over 'Not About The
Money'.
No Sense? Nonsense! - 2006
The fun you can have with a camera, some mates and a few dead things.
This was one of those inbetween jobs that was so off the cuff it makes your head spin.
Technically shooting started in 2002, but seeing as the final scenes weren't shot until
2005 and editing wasn't done until a year later, we're slotting it in here!
It tells the story of a man who finds a small brown box. Overcome with interest he takes
the box home and opens it, sadly for him it is a box from an ancient time full of weirdy gubbins that warps his tiny little
mind and ultimately shows his own death.
Why it took so long to shoot and edit is anyone's guess. Adam keeping it all to himself
probably didn't help matters, but for an unplanned free for all it's actually rather enjoyable!
Just In a Story - 2007
Originally written by Adam as a straight
hitman film, I took one look at it and yawned with great disgust. Yes, guns, violence and gangsters are fun, but there
was nothing that took my fancy here, Adam, needless to say, was crushed.
After some tea and after Adam had wiped away those tears there was a spark of inspiration.
We decided that we'd give it a little twist, the story remained pretty much intact but the
idea to shoot it as a docu-film, in the style of 'Cops' popped into our heads. So rather than the centre of
attention being on the hitman ((Justin)), it was the haphazard crew, ((modelled very closely on ourselves)) led by Coral
in her first starring role.
This was a real blast to film, once we got into it and got the cast together it was fun from
the start, although the film was not without sacrifice, as tragically our cameraman,
Zenneth B. DeWalt was shot and killed capturing the finale. However his nearest relatives, Fish 1 and Fish 2 wanted us to
complete the film as a loving memorial to the Big Z.
May his camera live on.
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