Do you think you know Scotland?

Night is Day - Do you think you know Scotland? Trailer from Fraser Coull on Vimeo.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Filmmaking is hard. I've been involved in this film making malarky since I was 22 (okay, getting old now) when I studied TV Operations and Production at James Watt College in Greenock. Since then I've started my own company (Silly Wee Films) made short films (which you can see here) two seasons of a web series (again, here) and eventually, Night is Day, the feature film.

All of this has been made with no funding from support as I have been knocked back by funding bodies who have offered very little support to fill out the over complicated forms. However I've always found amazing people to work with, and I find that if I just ask someone for something, i.e. to use their location, they tend to say yes and filmmaking continues.

I don't know why, but I have ruffled a few feathers, and a few rumours have been going about how I mistreat my cast and crew and how horrible I am. I've also been told that I'm never going to make it in the industry *stares at my feature film with well known Scottish actors in it*... so yeah. All I've ever done is try to make good films, work with lots of different people and give everybody experience. I've always been up front about what money we had available and people know what they are getting into when they join my productions.

When I'm big, famous and successful (haha, he wishes) everybody will get paid and the people who want to work with me and who I want to work with, we'll sort that out and all will be good.

Anyway, I'm digressing slightly with this blog update. Night is Day is coming along nicely. Unfortunately as this is a non-funded production, some of our team have had to go and work on paid jobs in order to pay for the roof over their heads and, you know, to eat. So that's been a little bump on the road to finishing the film, however my excellent post-production producer Ross Hardie, has kept things moving along nicely. We've got new crew to pick up the jobs that need to be finished and all going well we'll have the film finished by the end of of 2011.

I'm off to LA in November to the American Film Market to meet with distributors and sales agents, so hopefully we'll find someone to buy the film and put it in the cinemas, on DVD and then iTunes! Cross your fingers for us!

And then I can continue pre-production on my second feature... "Get Funded"

Ciao for now!