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• August 24, 2006

  Doing the trailer tango

  First up, I claimed at the end of the Hellbride shoot that my lovely cast and crew drenched me in fake blood. Many might believe that such a wonderful bunch of folks wouldn’t be capable of such a dirty deed, so I thought you might like evidence. Second up is the matter of trailers. I’ve…
• August 10, 2006

  Wrapped up

  Like a Christmas present. Digital technology being what it is, I’ve already been able to cobble together and view a first assembly of KK. First assemblies, for those who’ve never seen one, are the part of the filmmaking process where the director claps his hands over his mouth, screams silently and weeps that he’s made…
• August 1, 2006

  Tomorrow we wrap…

  The asylum’s already a distant memory, the footage has mostly been digitised and tomorrow we wrap. How bizarre. Got nice and drunk last night on the basis that I could lie in today, but didn’t manage to lie in because my body is still geared for getting up by 5am. Finding it slightly difficult to…
• July 28, 2006

  Asylum time

  And, after all that, we finally made it to our disused mental hospital location today. The location has cost me an arm and a leg, (half the budget of the movie for THREE DAYS filming), and the paperwork elements have been extremely frustrating at times. But, this morning at 6.30, our happy band rolled up…
• July 27, 2006

  Sen-fucking-sational

  Here’s the God’s honest truth. For all the occasional spills and heartaches, for all the broken mains connections and irritating location paperwork, this is proving to be an absolutely amazing summer. The KK footage that we’ve got in the can thus far feels alarmingly like it’s come straight from my brain and onto the screen,…
• July 24, 2006

  KillerKiller is go…

  Although our weird, weekend-heavy schedule meant that today consisted largely of the cast working together on tightening up various scenes, followed by a tiny bit of actual filming at the end of the day. Tomorrow is straight into two major kill sequences, though… Not sure whether we’ll be posting photos from either of those just…
• July 23, 2006

  One last Hellbride image for the moment…

  Before everything goes all KillerKiller around these parts, thought I’d post one final image from the Hellbride set. This one was snapped by Debbie Attwell, (http://www.debbieattwell.com), and features the wonderful Eleanor James as Josephine Stewart…
• July 22, 2006

  KillerKiller on the horizon…

  OK, so KK finally hits the lens on Monday. The biggest deal of the shoot, however, is the days that we’re spending at our mental hospital location next weekend. They’re going to be looooong days, and we need to get so much footage in the can. Going to be somewhat terrifying. Having finally digitised all…
• July 19, 2006

  Hellbride footage and KillerKiller prep

  I’ve been digitising the Hellbride footage on and off, in between sorting out final arrangements for KillerKiller. Still chuffed to bits with how HB has turned out, and looking forward to chopping together a first assembly and seeing how long it’s coming in at roughly. It’ll end up at 82 minutes, of course. I believe…
• July 14, 2006

  And that’s a wrap.

  Hard to believe, but HB just wrapped principal photography. We cracked open the bubbly, and my beloved cast and crew showered me in fake blood, bless ’em. Other than yesterday, that was a fantastic shoot. Fun, upbeat, fast and with a positive vibe. I reckon the film is going to be pretty fucking spot-on for…