Mime

The Mime shoot on the 15th Jan has been cancelled, the best we can do is February at the moment.

Mime

The Gert's bucket mime shoot is scheduled for Sunday 15th January.
All positions have been filled so weather permitting, we're good to go.

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HRH Gertrutbucket himself, is now on Facebook.
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.....and also, apparently, on twitter.     @Gertrutbucket

Have a good Christmas and a happy new year!

Mime

The next episode of Gert's Bucket will be called 'Mime'.
A couple come back from holiday, to find a mime in their back garden.
Needless to say, we have to investigate it.

'Gert's Bucket' Poltergeist

The shoot got cancelled again on the 1st Oct so we rescheduled for today. With the weather not looking so good, we took advantage of a break in the rain to film the outside 'introduction shot'. We then shot 2 scenes inside the caravan as it peed it down outside. After lunch the weather wasn't any better but we made a decision to soldier on and finish the shoot. The caravan eventually went up in the end (after a bit of persuasion to get it going) and overall we were pleased with the days work.
Big thanks to Liam, John, Trevor, Tom and Horris all from the Co-op, Alan and Darren who acted in the film (even though they're not actors)  and a very big thanks to the owners of the farm who helped in the production and put on a very welcome spread.
Time to relax now and think about the 4th episode and then L&S 2.

'Gert's Bucket' Poltergeist

Due to late work commitments we could only shoot certain scenes and thankfully they were all in the caravan as it peed it down all morning. The rest of the shoot will take place on the 1st October with the end scene being the burning of the caravan. Bit worried about this, as there is some acting when it's on fire and we can't retake!
Liam was filming with his new SLR camera and it seemed to work ok. I'm interested to see what it looks like.
Thanks to Liam, David Dale and Alan for helping.
Big thanks to John Hamlett and 'Workshop media' for lending us some equipment.

Gert's Bucket Bassenthwaite killer fish

Despite the bad weather at the start with the wind and rain causing problems the shoot went well. Big thanks to Trevor, Horris, Ray, Louise and Josh for making it happen, and a big thanks to Bob Christie who turned up to help even though he'd never met any of us before! The film along with the first is now in post production.

The next episode of Gert's Bucket will hopefully be shot on the 17th and 18th of September and sees us investigating a haunted caravan in Bolton.

Nearly finished

Nearly finished editing and sound mixing my film. I feel really good about this. I got an e-mail on the 18th April asking if there was any films being made because the actor just wanted to do something. It started a chain of events that got us to make a film that is about to be finished this weekend. I had a rough draft of a script on my computer that I'd more or less forgotten about and dragged it out and dusted it off but apart from that the whole thing has gone from not even existing as an idea to being a finished short (9 minutes) in just over a month. We actually filmed it at the start of this month. Its a bit rough round the edges but basically its a film and it has a lot that I'm pleased with and and because it was such a nice experience to make, it may be leading to a writing collaboration between me and the two actors. We are thinking of trying to do a science fiction film next but one that's a bit low key and takes place on Earth in the recognisable (and therefore easy and cheap to film) present.