Category: Filming
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Independent Filmmaking: Cameras and Kit
Indie filmmakers will argue about kit and formats until the end of the world (which, at the time of writing, is scheduled to be in about an hour according to nutjobs and the easily distracted), yet I’ve somehow managed to keep this blog going for six years or so without ever writing about it once.…
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Actors, casting and the perils of Evil Apps
A bit more about Evil Apps. It’s bubbling around in my brain and throwing its weight around, pushing other important projects to one side and shouting ‘Me Me ME’ so I might as well talk about it. Specifically, I want to talk about casting and dealing with actors. I tend to deal with movies that…
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Hellbride Flashback
Behind the scenes on the 2006 shoot for ‘Hellbride’
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Battlefield Death Tales and more…
Battlefield Death Tales has been shooting in a slightly stop-start fashion for the last few weeks, depending on the availability of actors. It’s been a fantastic shoot thus far, and great fun. Rubber monsters, nazis, explosions (yes, proper big-assed explosions! Not CGI ones!) and more. My own chapter, Devils of the Blitz has only got…