Post production continues - pre production begins... the filmmaking circle just goes around and around

Not much of an exciting blog post, I will admit, but I felt it was time for a small update. 

The producers of Night is Day - The Movie, have now watched the first cut and have told me that they are happy with the flow of the story but they have notes on changes they feel will benefit the movie, so I look forward to reading them - although I am slightly terrified too haha. 

Then again, anything that does get cut-out will likely go on a DVD as "deleted scenes", so nothing is lost forever, which is nice.

It feels like a life time ago since we started making the movie - in fact I've moved house twice in that time - and I already miss it. We only wrapped in August and my life has been a mix of editing the movie, promoting the movie and working on corporate video work to pay the bills.

I've started writing my next feature, well, I started writing my next feature a year before I wrote Night is Day, but I've went back and chipped away at the script for "Get Funded" (working title - other favourites are "Go Fund Yourself" and "Fund It!") which is a comedy about three filmmakers who are so desperate to make their movie that they resort to robbing people and exploiting them - only to get mixed up with gangsters and the police. 

"Night is Day" is a miracle, really, because we're in Scotland and it got made. We didn't wait for someone to give us a big wad of cash to make it, and we were VERY lucky to find a cast and crew who understood that it's far more important to make a movie, rather than wait until someone gives you the money to do so.

I'm not saying the movie is going to win awards for being clever, thought-provoking or ground-breaking but I am DEFINITELY saying that if you like Doctor Who, Angel, Buffy, Spider-Man, Torchwood, superhero movies, Scottish movies, then you will (hopefully) enjoy this movie. 

Now that we've made the £3,000 movie, we can take it to investors, distributors, sales agents, private sources of funding with a pitch for "Get Funded/Fund It/Go Fund Yourself" in the hope that they will give us enough money to pay everybody, get the equipment and whatever costs come up along the way (locations, props, costumes etc) and that we can make a Scottish comedy next Summer. 

Once "Night is Day" has been "locked" (where the actual movie itself won't change shot wise) we then take it to the composer, sound designers and visual effects artists who will work on it and then it will be coloured and graded.

Whoever says making movies is easy is lying, but it is a LOT of fun.

That's enough of a blog post for now...

Later folks.

Location, Location, Location

(Photo by Jack Photography)

As "Night is Day" series 2 continues it's adventures in post production with special effects, music composing and sound design on episodes 4-7, the pre-production on "Night is Day - The Movie" moves ever faster forward.

While the producers, Lindsay Dowell and Gavin Orr, and myself will be working on the filming schedule in the next couple of weeks I can confirm that our first official date of principle photography is the 5th and 6th of June 2010! 

Along with Taggart star Colin McCredie on board (playing DCI Iain Mullan's smart-looking informant, Taylor), we also have two other well known and well loved Scottish actors joining the production, but sadly until their contracts are signed I can't say who they are, but I am very excited about working with them both as I've been a fan of their work for quite some time!

On the 5th of June we will be filming with one of our latest signings, and hopefully on the 6th we will be filming with Colin too. 

We have also secured another location for filming - this time it's the bar/club "Muse" on Queen Street in Glasgow. They're letting us use their club downstairs on a Sunday to film pivotal scenes for the movie, which we will require a lot of extras for to fill out the club.

On Friday the 23rd of April at 8pm we will be holding a Race Night at the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow University - everybody is invited to come along and join in on the fun, bet on some races, and help raise awareness and funding for the film, as well as meeting some of the cast and crew.

Exciting times ahead for Night is Day!

Strangely satisfying being on IMDb

Night is Day - The Movie is moving along quite nicely. We've got our cast in place, locking down locations, the schedule, props and costumes, as well as a few well known Scottish actors to take smaller roles in the film to help raise the profile of our superhero action film.

With 5 test scenes in the works for the 17th and 18th, a fundraising race night on the 23rd of April and some superhero student nights being worked on in May, it's only going to be a matter of time before we're ready to start filming principle filming!

So another step in the road is having the film listed on the Internet Movie Database. Check it out at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629444/

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