Shoot - Day 1
It begins. Countless work. Blood. Sweat. Tears. Here we are. The shoot. Day 1 began with the roadside scene where Ellis and Kane split...
It begins. Countless work. Blood. Sweat. Tears. Here we are. The shoot. Day 1 began with the roadside scene where Ellis and Kane split...
This is the storyboard/shotlist Aaron and I put together. I don't want to stick rigidly to it, particularly during the montage. I want...
So we have had to rush and update how we planned to shoot the river scene taking all the nightmarish factors into account. We've only...
I found it useful to see the river scene cut together as an animatic, so I just did the same for the entire film!
Using these storyboards, I put together a short animatic to demonstrate what the river scene could potentially look like. Try not to have...
I used a program called Frame Forge to storyboard the film. The final images might not look pretty, but they effectively demonstrate the...
Juliet just phoned me really excited that she had worked out how to make a gunshot sound effect. I think she's cracked it!
This is my first muzzle flash test. It's not great, but I can do better. I'm going to try to make smoke in blender. I think that's more...
Franz Kafka's The Trial. A man is arrested out of the blue one day. Follows the court proceedings as he is sentenced for committing a...
Jean-Paul Sartre was an absurdist philosophy. I think some of what he wrote about would be things going through Sonny's mind. If you...
So for so many reasons our locations are screwed. I'm not going to go through it all here. But Screen Edinburgh isn't letting us shoot...
We're fully cast! I have debated and debated and debated with myself about whether we should cast Rhys as Ellis. I really like him....
These are the guns I'm looking for. Ellis' gun should something small like a revolver, that he can just shove in his pocket. Maybe...
I recently read Camus' essay The Myth of Sysiphus. Fascinating book. Here are a few quotes from it which stood out to me. “There is...
The script has always mentioned 'ghostly voices' at the beginning. But what would these voices actually say? Aaron and I each wrote a...
Music is an integral part of my filmmaking process. I draw a lot from of inspiration from music. Ryan was telling me that he actually...
I reread L'etranger by Camus and this passage really stuck out to me. Sorry to just dump a whole load of text, but I found it very...
Well, now I'm conflicted. So another group of really interesting actors applied for the role. Again, some were better than others,...
After extensive location scouts, these are the ideal locations for most of the film. Ruth is adamant that we use Bonaly Scout Camp as our...