HUGE thanks to Stems who gave us free roses to throw over Chris!
Those useless t-shirts took DAYS to make! Painting is not our strong point...
Believe us, at one point this film had some sort of reasonable plot. But then it just decended into PURE DANCE! :D
Kathy describes this film as being "Camper than Butlins" and we're inclined to agree!
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| From Screenplay 2009 |
This film began when it was joked that Mhairi should make a film (having been in media club for 3 years and yet never having made her own film). And somehow, she pulled it off!
All of the background sets were designed from scratch by Jason and here are some shots of the spaceship's bridge and Spacebot's quarters:
The props budget for the entire Screenplay festival took a big hit when Harry bought the gold material for the excellent shiny costumes.
Take one up and coming sportstar, your favorite neighbourhood deity and add one big lot of tennis, and what have you got??
... this ...
This film was conceived and filmed all in one evening (just over an hour, where most of the time was spent trying to find tennis rackets...).
Gengus is a very stupid dog - and when we tried to get him to sit still by giving him a squeaky chew toy, he instead ran away cause he didn't like the squeaking noise.
Mhairi and Chris joked that this would be a best film of the festival (they've convinced themselves it is!). Simon Miller's daughter said it was her favorite which has significantly boosted the ego's of Mhairi and Chris who now refuse to associate themselves with the rest of the group, and insist they are carried around on a throne.
We're sorry, very sorry. You have to understand - this film was just a big mistake waiting to happen... four friends trapped on Mousa; they all die horrifically in a Final Destination-esque style. At least their dead now, no chance for a sequel!
We woke up at 3am to film Masks. After this we had to finish Stallion Head and then went to St Ninian's (and later Mousa) to make this film. You have to understand how tired we were, explaining the poor quality
This film began with the plot premise of aliens using Mousa Broch as a base for their evil activities - and a war with trowies and other such thing happening. Unfortunately (or luckily) we didn't have time. :(
Stallion Head is not your everyday superhero - he's a little rubbish infact... Can he rescue the residents of Horse City from Thobin Mine the evil life insurance salesman?
The pony actually bit Chris on his leg. Suffering for his art! :p
The horse mask was bought in Sendai in Japan and managed to travel all the way to Shetland.
The blood mixture was mainly milk and red food colouring — next time we plan on looking up a more professional fake blood recipe... Lorcan also didn't wash his jacket and wore it to the Screenplay festival.
A short film we made for Screenplay 2008. The film examines the destruction of identity that can result from drug misuse.
We were put on ITV because of this, though it was a bit rubbish cause they twisted everything we meant and wanted to say into "Shetland has a drug problem". Darn!
To get the street empty, we all stayed at Lorcan's house then went out on the street at 3am. After filming this we had to go and film some of Stallion Head, Trapped on Mousa and "The Running Film". It was quite a painful day!
Amanda Palmer (the singer and piano player in the song) mentioned this in her blog. She said:
starts slow, but stick with it. for high school, i'm impressed.
jesus. cocaine that young sort of makes me want to cry. why aren't kids dropping acid anymore? wtf.
