I suppose I should mention that our film won 3 awards on Friday night ...

Best Costumes
Best Music
Best Cinematography

I don't think I would produce another. You end up doing a lot of the upfront work and form filling and are then left rather marginalised whilst the actual exciting stuff of making the film is taking place over the weekend. That said I got involved in the script writing and the acting, so it wasn't all bad.

Copy of comment I wasn't able to post on the Film Project website ...

Firstly, I'd like to echo some of the others and thank Sam for organising a great competition. I think everyone had their trials and tribulations but the overall experience made it worth it (?!?!)

I can't help feeling there were some strange questions at our screening. One guy seemed to think the entries were planned in advance. From our point of view, "yes" we had ideas and "yes" we had certain things lined up ... for example,

1. I'd got permission from "A Band Called Quinn", a Scottish band I really like on Myspace to allow us to use their music on our film. I checked with Sam if this was okay, got the green light from him, and was looking forward to using their electro/indie/pop tracks on our film. We then picked out Historical Fiction. A Band Called Quinn suddenly didn't quite fit the bill.

2. Another team member had got permission from a swanky modern hotel to film on their premises. We then picked out Historical Fiction (see point 1)
3. We had 2 "proper" actors (yes, people who had actually acted before) lined up for our production. Both of them (possibly seeing the iceberg) pulled out the week before.
Other than the above mentioned military like planning, we pretty much started with a blank piece of paper on the Friday night.

Keith (our music man) sat in on the brain storming session on the Friday night, got (what he thought was) the general idea of what we were doing and was told to come back on Saturday night with some atmospheric music. He did a cracking job (even though when he eventually saw the film said "hmm, that wasn't quite how I'd imagined it")

So yeah, we came up with a historical fiction story, plonked a CD into it, found out some old looking hats, grabbed a spade (and a pie) and went for it.

Highlights would have to be filming outside the Burke and Hare lap dancing emporium on Saturday lunchtime and pretending to rob graves in an Edinburgh cemetery at 1.30am on Sunday.

Good times. See you all next year.


PS Yes Kenny, I am reading, and cheers. Much appreciated and back at ya. Do you want me to wait for you before handing ours in next year?