So today was the "real" start of me, my co-director Gustav Newby and our Bitch Ciaran O'Brien's first film as a team. Now I have made a shot list, a call sheet and a schedule for those involved we are ready to go. The protagonist was supposed to be played by Geoff Bell from Green Street, RocknRolla and Mean Machine, this however has fallen through at the last minute as we have been unable to contact him, but hopefully he will appear in a future production. But we feel we have a better actor for the role now anyway, so no loss at all.
The film which will be shot this Thursday, is a social realism film about South London culture, and how it has changed over the past 40 years. The film asks whether or not this is for better or worse but in the protagonists eyes it has left him in a lonely state, living in a world where so much has changed he no longer belongs.
The start of the film will contain a montage of shots of stills, showing what was the protagonists golden age. To get these shots we went to a museum of local history which ended up being useless, however while looking for it we did end up in an empty court room, which was strange. So we then went to our local library not expecting to find much and were amazed at how much archive photographs of the area they had. In the end we were spoilt for choice for stills to use, and ended up looking at our houses and the area we grew up in up to one hundred ago, which was very interesting to see. It is something I advise anybody to do so if they have some time to kill.
Anyway, I will upload the film in the next two weeks at some point, it should run at approx 3 mins, and I hope you enjoy our 1st official short, which is nameless at the moment... as well as us as a production team.
Film Recommendation: Stroszek - Werner Herzog
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