It's All Not About The Boys

A crap photograph by me.

Yesterday we shot the credits sequence for the film, and once again by all accounts a laugh was had by everyone on the shoot.  We started out in Deep Nightclub in Whitley Bay, and really massive thanks must go to Johnny and all the people there for giving us the run of the place... Also thanks to Sarah Tennick, our second unit make up and art department queen for putting us in touch with the people at Deep.  Our crew for this shoot was teensy weensy and somehow this enabled us to crack through a ton of stuff quite quickly.  Tina Frank was back helping out the art and production departments, Aris handled sound-recording and Richy Reay DoP'd and op'ed which seemed to work well.  Clooney (Nic Pringle) rounded off the team and was his usual versatile self.  James and I made up the rest - so you can see when I say teensy weensy I'm not exaggerating in any way!

Another crap photograph by me

There's probably two things you can tell from the pictures - I am a totally crap photographer and the scenes yesterday were all about a hen do.  As someone who has only every been on one hen do I had to do a far amount of asking around to help with this scene - as it happens my mate Stephanie who plays Elizabeth in the film is in her own words "the Hen Do Queen" so most of this research involved trawling through her many hen do albums on Facebook - LOL!

After Deep we had one more shot to get - of the hens outside, mid pub crawl. We decided in a rather impromptu fashion to shoot this on the Newcastle Quayside. We'd just completed the first take when two security guards asked us to move on... Who knew that the section near Malmaison and La Tasca was private property? Ho hum. We got the shot and you can't tell where it is - so that's all that matters. It's only the third time in 10 years of shooting that we've been asked to bugger off - and it's always been by private security guards!  What is it with these over-zealous uniform wearers that makes them want to shunt filmmakers on? Nevermind - like I said - we got the shot!

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Not by me (by Simon Herdman)

With the wrap on that sequence it means we have only one little bit of the film left to shoot - the opening of the movie - a flashback sequence.  This is proving a bit of a mare to cast - I mean where the hell can I find two kids who look like Pob and Staggy as kids??? ===>

So if you know anyone who knows anyone who may have access to two kids who look like these two reprobates then please do drop us an e-mail info AT fnafilms DOT co DOT uk 

In the meantime - keep coming back here for updates and if you like what you see please spread the word!  We will soon be at picture lock and then comes the fun of the grade and sound mix; once these are completed we will be doing a few screenings to test the water and see if this film has any appeal beyond the North east of England.

Thanks once again to everyone who helped yesterday, especially the girls who showed up to be the hens (Jo Dutton, Sophie Blacklock and Naomi Mayfield), Therase Neve (Charlotte), Stephanie Gray (Elizabeth) and the wonderful Will Stevenson who played "the entertainment". 


Finally a special thanks to Jamie at Picture Canning North and Ashley at Pinball Films.

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