Well it was that time of year again! The 48 Hour Film Project took place in Glasgow from the 5th to the 7th of October. I assembled the cast and crew from Bloodline, as well as Simon Weir, Mark Harvey and Nicola Wellburn who took part in my project from last year, "Late Nights"and we came up with the film above!
This year our genre was mockumentary, which I felt suited our style quite nicely. Mark and I wrote the script in a couple of hours and sent it out to the crew on the Friday and we arrived at Scott's, our 1st AD, flat at 9am on Saturday and filmed until around 6.30pm, while our editor Anne (who also stars in the film!) cut together the short. We then handed it in by 4.30pm on the Sunday, being the first team to hand in the movie.
It was yet another amazing experience, with the entire cast and crew getting on well, working together brilliantly and having a good laugh too.
Flicker Magazine wrote a really good write up of the two screening nights held to showcase the films, and here is what they had to say about "Cameron Stone: A Legendary Actor" -
"Overall, I really expected the two of us to have different tastes and see a really distinct differential in choices. Even our film education is different and we often differ on opinions of mainstream features, so to see such correlation between us really shows us that there were clear stand outs. Linda and I also agreed on what we thought was the best all-around short. We both chose a film that made us laugh a lot. Cleverly put together, keeping it simple and safe. From Group A it was 'Cameron Stone: A Legendary Actor'. So Linda I'll let you take the lead for our winner."
"'Cameron Stone: A Legendary Actor' by Silly Wee Films, had me laughing from start to finish. I think its use of genre was excellent, the narration was first class and the acting was very versatile. It managed to build up the characters quickly and was consistently funny throughout. I loved the use of parody with characters like Michael Bane, Pear Stone and Captain Ramona Lewis with her contradictory line "It's our little secret" and then selling her story in a book deal. All the characters fit in well with the theme of Hollywood mockery. The dialogue seemed genuinely improvised and this blended well with the genre. The Q&A at the end had me in stitches it was a true 'Hollywood Insider' moment. It was disappointing at the awards. I expected a few awards to come by the way of this excellent short movie. It is well worth a watch and a share on Facebook or Twitter. "
"For me this was such a simple idea for a Mockumentary. Really well executed, the narration builds the characters very quickly and I think most of us can relate to thinking upon actors like Cameron Stone. This was edited well, the line and character were used effectively and a few good bits of acting. On the night of the showing we even got an excellent little improvisation with the gentleman who played Stone and the host, which was also very funny. This definitely gets the Flicker Magazine stamp of approval so congrats to the team at Silly Wee Films on putting a good effort together. A great shame it didn't take the overall award."
Thank you to Flicker for the great write up, it's much appreciated!
With the dust settled we are now moving on with wrapping up the pilot for our supernatural TV series, "Bloodline", which we hope to start pitching to producers, TV networks, etc, in the hope to get picked up for a full series. We also have two more short films in the works with Scott Forrest's "MacDuff", an action-packed spoof and Mark Harvey's "He Who Is Not There", a dark drama comedy. We hope to film them both in January/February and enter them into film festivals along with Cameron Stone.
This can be a rather tough and gruelling industry with very little pay off and recognition for your hard work, but with the right team of people around you, it's the most rewarding career you could have.
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