Add to friends 9:38 AM Salisbury and all kind of beers
Well , well well.
Believe it or not I actually had two entries to put in this here journal. The only thing that has been stopping me is the fact that for the last 4 week I have been out in the middle of no where.
I got a new job out in Salisbury at very short notice, only had enough time to catch me breath as I was whisked into a wicker man and dragged from london.
The first three weeks were spent going into small pubs, where a huge crowd would gather around and I would tell of stories of how in London we have buildings higher than 4 stories which arent cathedrals, how we travel around london deep underground in metal horseless carriages and yes, we too have a green man in London. Except ours tells us when to cross the road.
Luckily thanks to the lay lines in salisbury I have managed to hook up my laptop to the outside world so greetings from Salisbury! Im currently in a 600 year old pub and I imagine where im sitting all that time ago someone was sitting there with a busty buxom wrench on their lap whilst im sitting here with a laptop. Is that really progress ?
In all seriousness its not to bad out here at all, a quick run down on the pubs first
The Haunch and venison fantastic range of scotch imagine my surprise when I left to read this in the paper the next day!
The Wydham Arms fantastic beers called things such as crop circle and winter lighting
The New Inn they serve a beer called ferret !
The Bricklayer Arms nice small pub good for throwing darts and nice barmaid
And the XXXXXXX which is where im currently staying a. Nice pub with very friendly bar staff in and the room Im staying in is all right as well. So a hello to April, Linda, Laura, Fern and Jackie who are currently serving us beer and doing a good job of it.
So whats been happening for MI
Well the money is in place for the final shoot (still ;-)), and I have shot dates which are 100% there, I cant name the dates publicly yet but watch this space.
Also swamped but a mountain of CVs for the puppeteer, finally have got round to whittling them down and have invited a handful for auditions, I would like to take this opportunity here to thank everyone who sent their CVs in.
In this entry here I want to talk about where the cast and crew for the whole of Mortus Illumina have come from I think I have mentioned bits and pieces before but this is the full run down!
Firstly
Susie Benton who plays Mary was in our short film Deadlights and so was Darrell Brockis who plays Veil. Paul Holden who plays Rico comes from another 5YLAC production Ad-Astra which was directed by Mike Peter Reed. Moral of the story here is make shorts before embarking on a feature!
Next up we had a series of auditions back in November 2002 which were advertised on shooting people, the auditions were held at the london school of speech and drama in Wilsden green. From these round of auditions we got Pegeene Rowley who plays Sister Judith, Kerry Frampton who plays sister Abigail. Ian Rixon who plays Matt and a priest (ill come to this in a second)
As shooting creeped up for the first shoot in April 2001, in march we put out ad s on SP for extra Nuns which didnt get a great deal of response , especially we had a Ad out for vampire lesbian nuns which only got one reply so we had to drop that scene. Though we did get Trine Van Thielen Mitchell who plays Sister Ruth and is a star. On the first shoot most of the female and male! Crew doubled up as our nuns if you watch the film carefully you will see the careful and calculated use of two nuns always walking in the background ;-)
Now the original priest who we had cast Im not going to use the word let down , more a case of different opinions on how things work and in all credit he was a good actor. But at the last minute I didnt have the feeling of confidence in the actor. So stepping in at the last minute was Ben Graves who was a friend of Susies to play the role of Father Oleary.
Coming up to the second shoot for MI, we needed a couple of extras for the beach scene and a old lady to play the role of Doga. We never found a old lady so Doga was supplied by KHY Animatronics and we landed Geoff Eyers who plays the Dead soldier on the beach, there were no auditions for these roles just a meeting in the pub!. We did have someone lined up to play one the dead gypsy but I knew the week before the shoot she was going to mess us around and my fears were confirmed on the Wednesday before the shoot, so Ana who is the clapper loader took up the role of the dead gypsy.
Moving into 2002 for the third shoot, this time round I werent taking any chances so I used a agency top get the extra for the bar shoot, though this turned out only slightly more succesful than previous attempts. I can understand people being reluctant to take unpaid low budget extra works, but if they are relucant then they should not accept the roles, this also applies to crew as well as it really does f*ck everything up when we are let down the 11th hour. On the day before the bar shoot I was worried that only about half the extras were going to turn up, so a couple of friends of friends were dragged in and some of the crew also appear in the scene.
The band for the bar scene I got In contact with direct, there was a 7 piece band who agreed a month in advance that they were up for it, but a week before they pulled out (see a pattern here ?) luckily the Alley cats stepped in for return that they could keep their costumes. We managed to kit out the whole band for less than fifty quic thanks to Mark, as we done so brilliantly well on that I went out bought brand new black ties for the band. The lead singers jacket is a converted cabin crew jacket btw.
For the Chapel shoot Nun extras, we originally held auditions back in the beginning of January 2002, these were one of my favorite auditions as we did a group audition in the form of the Nuns of 5YLAC have captured the worlds biggest fish in the Thames, the pope has heard of this good news and was coming round to eat the fish, so the fish needed to be prepared and his elegance also liked his salt. From these auditions we got Bea Gehr Swain who plays a nun and the mysterious white nun in the film. Also around this time some tickets arrived in my post for Circus of horrors to whom we grabbed Slvana Maiome from who plays a vampire nun in the film.
Moving on nearer the shoot itself , we put ads out on local web community boards near where we were shooting for extras and we got a good response from that. Though to stick our hands in the air it was very badly organized and I think we got through the extra situation with the skin of our teeth.
And thats basically where the cast have come from so far for MI! auditions for the puppeteer are being held shortly and Ill update the journal with a full run down of how that goes,
As shot dates are there the clock is now beginning to click down as its not that far away at all! This is where cobwebs get blown off and the frigin in the riggin is put on hold. I will try and get a few more entries into this journal as it is a bit all over the place at the moment, so watch this space!
Oh yeah, what I mentioned about in the previous entry about the SP business, this appeared the next day after my posting
Mortus Illumina - Apology II posted 01/03/2004 by "Susie" <XXXXXX.com>
Dear 5YLAC Films
Sorry to have misinterpreted your posting... Best regards,
Susie Gossling-Valerio
Believe it or not I actually had two entries to put in this here journal. The only thing that has been stopping me is the fact that for the last 4 week I have been out in the middle of no where.
I got a new job out in Salisbury at very short notice, only had enough time to catch me breath as I was whisked into a wicker man and dragged from london.
The first three weeks were spent going into small pubs, where a huge crowd would gather around and I would tell of stories of how in London we have buildings higher than 4 stories which arent cathedrals, how we travel around london deep underground in metal horseless carriages and yes, we too have a green man in London. Except ours tells us when to cross the road.
Luckily thanks to the lay lines in salisbury I have managed to hook up my laptop to the outside world so greetings from Salisbury! Im currently in a 600 year old pub and I imagine where im sitting all that time ago someone was sitting there with a busty buxom wrench on their lap whilst im sitting here with a laptop. Is that really progress ?
In all seriousness its not to bad out here at all, a quick run down on the pubs first
The Haunch and venison fantastic range of scotch imagine my surprise when I left to read this in the paper the next day!
The Wydham Arms fantastic beers called things such as crop circle and winter lighting
The New Inn they serve a beer called ferret !
The Bricklayer Arms nice small pub good for throwing darts and nice barmaid
And the XXXXXXX which is where im currently staying a. Nice pub with very friendly bar staff in and the room Im staying in is all right as well. So a hello to April, Linda, Laura, Fern and Jackie who are currently serving us beer and doing a good job of it.
So whats been happening for MI
Well the money is in place for the final shoot (still ;-)), and I have shot dates which are 100% there, I cant name the dates publicly yet but watch this space.
Also swamped but a mountain of CVs for the puppeteer, finally have got round to whittling them down and have invited a handful for auditions, I would like to take this opportunity here to thank everyone who sent their CVs in.
In this entry here I want to talk about where the cast and crew for the whole of Mortus Illumina have come from I think I have mentioned bits and pieces before but this is the full run down!
Firstly
Susie Benton who plays Mary was in our short film Deadlights and so was Darrell Brockis who plays Veil. Paul Holden who plays Rico comes from another 5YLAC production Ad-Astra which was directed by Mike Peter Reed. Moral of the story here is make shorts before embarking on a feature!
Next up we had a series of auditions back in November 2002 which were advertised on shooting people, the auditions were held at the london school of speech and drama in Wilsden green. From these round of auditions we got Pegeene Rowley who plays Sister Judith, Kerry Frampton who plays sister Abigail. Ian Rixon who plays Matt and a priest (ill come to this in a second)
As shooting creeped up for the first shoot in April 2001, in march we put out ad s on SP for extra Nuns which didnt get a great deal of response , especially we had a Ad out for vampire lesbian nuns which only got one reply so we had to drop that scene. Though we did get Trine Van Thielen Mitchell who plays Sister Ruth and is a star. On the first shoot most of the female and male! Crew doubled up as our nuns if you watch the film carefully you will see the careful and calculated use of two nuns always walking in the background ;-)
Now the original priest who we had cast Im not going to use the word let down , more a case of different opinions on how things work and in all credit he was a good actor. But at the last minute I didnt have the feeling of confidence in the actor. So stepping in at the last minute was Ben Graves who was a friend of Susies to play the role of Father Oleary.
Coming up to the second shoot for MI, we needed a couple of extras for the beach scene and a old lady to play the role of Doga. We never found a old lady so Doga was supplied by KHY Animatronics and we landed Geoff Eyers who plays the Dead soldier on the beach, there were no auditions for these roles just a meeting in the pub!. We did have someone lined up to play one the dead gypsy but I knew the week before the shoot she was going to mess us around and my fears were confirmed on the Wednesday before the shoot, so Ana who is the clapper loader took up the role of the dead gypsy.
Moving into 2002 for the third shoot, this time round I werent taking any chances so I used a agency top get the extra for the bar shoot, though this turned out only slightly more succesful than previous attempts. I can understand people being reluctant to take unpaid low budget extra works, but if they are relucant then they should not accept the roles, this also applies to crew as well as it really does f*ck everything up when we are let down the 11th hour. On the day before the bar shoot I was worried that only about half the extras were going to turn up, so a couple of friends of friends were dragged in and some of the crew also appear in the scene.
The band for the bar scene I got In contact with direct, there was a 7 piece band who agreed a month in advance that they were up for it, but a week before they pulled out (see a pattern here ?) luckily the Alley cats stepped in for return that they could keep their costumes. We managed to kit out the whole band for less than fifty quic thanks to Mark, as we done so brilliantly well on that I went out bought brand new black ties for the band. The lead singers jacket is a converted cabin crew jacket btw.
For the Chapel shoot Nun extras, we originally held auditions back in the beginning of January 2002, these were one of my favorite auditions as we did a group audition in the form of the Nuns of 5YLAC have captured the worlds biggest fish in the Thames, the pope has heard of this good news and was coming round to eat the fish, so the fish needed to be prepared and his elegance also liked his salt. From these auditions we got Bea Gehr Swain who plays a nun and the mysterious white nun in the film. Also around this time some tickets arrived in my post for Circus of horrors to whom we grabbed Slvana Maiome from who plays a vampire nun in the film.
Moving on nearer the shoot itself , we put ads out on local web community boards near where we were shooting for extras and we got a good response from that. Though to stick our hands in the air it was very badly organized and I think we got through the extra situation with the skin of our teeth.
And thats basically where the cast have come from so far for MI! auditions for the puppeteer are being held shortly and Ill update the journal with a full run down of how that goes,
As shot dates are there the clock is now beginning to click down as its not that far away at all! This is where cobwebs get blown off and the frigin in the riggin is put on hold. I will try and get a few more entries into this journal as it is a bit all over the place at the moment, so watch this space!
Oh yeah, what I mentioned about in the previous entry about the SP business, this appeared the next day after my posting
Mortus Illumina - Apology II posted 01/03/2004 by "Susie" <XXXXXX.com>
Dear 5YLAC Films
Sorry to have misinterpreted your posting... Best regards,
Susie Gossling-Valerio
