Photo Every Day #182

Today I watched the short documentary film 'Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe'. The film is to the point, it sees Herzog attempting to flavour the shoe as best he can before eating it on a stage in front of an audience. Herzog ate his shoe as he promised to do such a thing should Errol Morris complete his film 'Gates Of Heaven'. He is clearly a man who sticks to his word. I've also been watching his 'On Death Row' series, which spurred me to watch this short. I really love Herzog's style, I find it a lot less biased that conventional prison/crime documentaries which tend to sensationalise the case and attempt to de-humanise the criminals. Instead, 'On Death Row' allows us to just simply hear what it is like to have to live with the consequences of such actions. The case details are discussed, it would be impossible to ommit them, but it is done in such a way that means it isn't the focus of the documentary; time is. For the average person it is impossible to imagine what it would be like to not only commit such serious offences, but to live with the consequences for the rest of your life and this is why I find this subject fascinating. I am going to be watching as much of Herzog's works as I can as I think he is an inspirational filmmaker and will hopefully be an influence on my own future films.

Rainbows:


Song Of The Day: Green Day - Walking Contradiction
Reason: One of my favourite Green Day songs, the video is amusing too.

Highlight Of The Day: Watching two more episodes of 'On Death Row'

Photo Every Day #181

Today I'm having serious withdrawal symptoms from being on the set of Boom In Shot. It has definately refined the fact that this is what I want to do forever. Fingers crossed there will be a sequel...

GRRR Your Face Off:


Song Of The Day: Will Smith - Men In Black
Reason: Classic 90s tune!

Highlight Of The Day: Naughty KFC for tea cos there's nothing in!

Photo Every Day #180

Today was the last day of filming for Boom In Shot. I'm really gutted that it's over as I didn't want it to finish. I've had such a nice time, everyone has been brilliant. I'd love to work with the crew again and hopefully I would be able to cast the actors in a future project. I'm just really excited to see the final film now, even though there's still the long editing process to go! This has by far been the best film job I've ever had. We also had a great time at the wrap party which was drinks in Odder bar, Manchester. We had many laughs and it rounded off a great few days shooting in the perfect way. Special thanks to everyone on the cast and crew, but in particular to Jez Blackmore (the director) for allowing me to become a part of this project!

Mugshot:

Photo Every Day #179

Another good day on set. I was worried that we wouldn't get all of the set ups done, but we even managed to get a handful shot that were scheduled for tomorrow! I'm starting to feel sad that we only have one day left. Sad face.

Shadow Man:

Photo Every Day #178

Today was the first day of filming for Boom In Shot. It was a really good day and we had a good few laughs. We were filming the first scene today which was all shot in the fake film set we dressed yesterday. It looked really good on camera so I was glad it was worth all the effort. It was great to see a Red camera too, the quality is just amazing! If I had ten of thousands of pounds lying around I'd be tempted to buy one! The actors all looked great in their costumes and played their roles well. I really think this will turn into a sucess if it's placed in the right film festivals.

Cast:

Photo Every Day #177

Today was the set up day for Boom In Shot. We went to Antwerp Mansion, which is our location, to set up the sets. We created the fake film set complete with sacrificial alter, melted candles and spray painted pentagram and it looks awesome! The mansion is a great location, it's full of junk too, so we managed to find some old books that dated back to as early as 1880! I'll take my Canon tomorrow and try to get some good shots. Can't wait for shooting to begin.

Set Design:


Pentagram:


Song Of The Day: KMFDM - Hau Ruck
Reason: Awesome song, they were amazing live and it was one of the best gigs I've been too. Better yet, we'd just found the tickets for it!

Highlight Of The Day: Getting aquainted with the mansion.

Photo Every Day #176

Today I was on the set of Sophie's Fortune. I'd been offered the role of runner by the producer who I'd met before on the set of Darktown Jubliee's Breakdown music video. I was really happy to be offered the role, especially as he contacted me as I was unaware that they were looking for runners! I will hopefully be taking up the runner role again next weekend for them. The film itself is about a group of dad's who go on a treasure hunt as part of a child's birthday party, but they get carried away and adopt 'hero' personas. It's a fantasy, action-adventure type film and even though I usually avoid action films, it really does look like it will be a great short. Most of my tasks included driving actors and crew to locations, carrying gear to the locations, speaking to members of the public who came across our production (most of them were excited to see men with guns running around!) and generally lending a hand where it was needed. Luckily for most of the day the weather was nice and the location was awesome! It really suited the story and the actors looked great in their costumes too. Everyone on set was really friendly and hardworking, so it was a nice atmosphere.

You can watch the teaser trailer here:

Photo Every Day #175

Just a quick post this evening as I have to get to sleep asap as I'm getting up at 5am to get ready for a full day of shooting for a film called 'Sophie's Fortune', very exciting! Today we had rehearsals for 'Boom In Shot' which gave me a chance to meet the cast. Everyone seemed really nice and the rehearsals went really well, so I'm really excited to get stuck in and help with the set building on Monday and get started shooting on Tuesday.

Script Read Through:


Song Of The Day: Ed Sheeran - Drunk
Reason: Was listening to the live performance from the Hackney Weekend in the car, he's perfect singing live and sounds exactly like on pre-recorded stuff.  Impressive

Highlight Of The Day: Great rehearsal session