Over the next two weeks I hope to have found a couple of actors/actresses for a short (medium sized as it happens) film myself and a friend are making. It looks like we now have a director and between us we should have enough crew. The script (I am told) is nearing completion and hopefully within a month it should be a lot closer to the finished article (scripts can be torturous to get spot on and it's imperative that it is polished and polished until it's ready).
Meanwhile I'm working on a short synopsis and trailer, or in this case 'teaser' as nothing as yet has been shot. This short 30 second (or thereabouts) spot will then be incorporated within a website to drum up interests both from those to be involved in the film and hopefully investors and distributors.
In the meantime I shall be out and about camera in tow shooting a few segments for this 'flick'. Fortunately we have a few 'Gothic' buildings in Manchester (I'm following a brief here) so I should
get some decent footage to splice together over a short, teasing edit. We are also on the look out for a 'small' actress to play the role of a 'mysterious' creature seen throughout the movie – for some of the web footage (for the teaser) I'll ask my daughter if she wouldn't mind playing the role for a few shots. I wish I had a costume department in house...sadly it will be left to me and a some dodgy needlework. For a mask (the face is hidden under a hood – for that 'neither man nor creature' look) I'm thinking of a pair of black tights over the head: not that unlike the old version of armed robbers. Hopefully it will not take too much bargaining for my daughter to agree to this – I'll bribe her with a trip to see the new Batman film at the imax cinema.
Of course I'll need to somehow procure the tights in question: I'll rummage through my girlfriends lingerie draw later on today (not unheard of) otherwise it's a trip to the local Asian market stall for good priced clothes wear.
I'll be posting pics on updates...
The other element of this I'm involved in is the music. As it's origins of the story are from the middle east I'll be looking to emulate (but not entirely plagiarise) the spirit of the regions music.
I'm settling around the old Persian/Iranian region a music mainly made up of monophonic instruments and using micro tones/quarter tones...I'm slowly getting my head around this. It would be good to find a local singer who is familiar or even specialises in vocals for this country. I may have a good contact on that front. Would certainly lend a little authenticity to the soundtrack.
So things are hotting up – I'll try my best to get something online over the next month and will of course provide a link here.
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