(Super)natural disasters hit Glasgow!
I completely forgot to post about Sunday 27th June's shoot on my blog as I was too busy recovering from it all and then it was suddenly the 4th and 5th of July, but we'll get to that later.
On the 27th the crew headed off to Muse, a bar near Queen Street Station in Glasgow. We'd been given permission to film in their downstairs bar to film a scene early on in the film (scenes 6, 7, 8 and 11) where we catch up with Detective Inspector Iain Mullan (Steven McEwan) for the first time since series 2. He's on a blind date with Mandy (yes, a reference to the filmmaking website Mandy.com) played by Rachel Loughran.
The date is going well until Mullan goes to get another drink and there is an almighty earthquake!
Queue 20 or so extras flailing around the bar on my command (Bang! I believe was their queue) as Simon our camera guy shook his camera around each group of extras, creating the desired effect.
The extras take a break while awaiting their next stage of direction
Eventually we would ask everybody to close their eyes while we brought in our villain of the movie, The Caillech, a Gaelic speaking old hag in battle armour, screamed at them in Gaelic. It was wonderful. Everybody reacted brilliantly and the footage looks brilliant.
John G McCall took the extras up stairs and filmed each of them for his Behind the Scenes blog (which you can see here http://www.vimeo.com/user4040085) so everybody will get a little bit extra screen time which is nice.
It was then on to the task of smashing glasses, bottles and shaking tables safely with the extras away from the bar to add to our earthquake.
Smashing! (Yes, I went there)
It was then on to the next scene, one of my favourites, where Mullan's colleagues, Superintendent Sloan (John Gaffney) and Inspector Rebecca Munro (Clare Sheppard) find him and he tells them about the Caillech. Confused, they decide that Mr. Philips (Tam Toye) could be involved. Jason (Chris Summers) arrives and they have a heated argument over their involvement with the supernatural.
With the scenes wrapped we took a break back at the base (aka my flat) and I took the footage from the cameras and edited the earthquake scene together quickly and it looks brilliant. Once it has proper special effects, sound effects and music - it will be fantastic.
Off to the South Side of Glasgow we went to film the last scene of the day - Scene 10 - where Sloan and Rebecca arrive outside the Night Club and meet PC Douglas (the fantastic Kenny Boyle who runs his own web review show called Queens of the Pawnage) before going down into the club.
On the next blog I'll talk about how I've had to succumb and buy an iMac to edit the film in all it's HD glory and how I'll be in massive amounts of debt thanks to it, the stressful weekend which was the 4th and 5th of July when we filmed a large chunk of the end of the movie (where Jason fights three scavenger demons...twice) and our plans for the film when it comes to conventions.
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