For this particular project i was a one man crew, using the Panasonic AF101 camera.
Based in the Glasgow Film Theatre with a Final Cut edit suite, I was provided with the contact details of all of the interviewees.

I covered all bases, I made initial contact, performed pre interview research, wrote all interview questions, filmed and performed the interviews, performed the final edit and uploaded to youtube with appropriate metadata (also written by me).

Each video ran along a basic structure. Filming of the film’s intro and Q & A, followed by interview with the special guest. I used clips/trailers/images from the film as cutaways (when available)

Sadly the budget didn’t cover any lavish title sequences, so I created something simple in After Effects which was quite well received and placed at the beginning of all of the videos.

Here is one of the videos, featuring veteran actor and first time Director Dexter Fletcher.

I also captured a taste of the opening party and cut together a small montage using one of the tracks played live on the evening.

I also filmed the Scottish Bafta hosted interview with Brian Cox, which i scaled down to 5 videos of highlights. One of which he talks about landing the role of Hannibal Lecter.

Other interviews included Writer Irvine Welsh, Director Bertrand Tevarnier and Jazz Legend Annie Ross, as well as a number of talented up and coming Actors and Directors.

Other videos can be seen below.

Glasgow Film Festival 2012: Bertrand Tevarnier remembers shooting Death Watch in Glasgow

Glasgow Film Festival 2012: Murray Grigor and David Peat talk about Big Banana Feet

Glasgow Film Festival 2012: Gareth Evans talks about his new film The Raid

Glasgow Film Festival 2012: Irvine Welsh plus Cast and Director talk about Irvine Welsh\'s Ecstasy

Glasgow Film Festival 2012: Son of R.D. Laing Adrian Laing talks about All Divided Selves

Glasgow Film Festival 2012: Annie Ross interview and Q&A

Glasgow Film Festival 2012: Writer/Director Simon Arthur talks about Silver Tongues

I was tasked with filming and editing. I used my own Panasonic AF101 and edited on Final Cut Pro. Many of the videos followed a set ENG style pattern. I would shoot an interview on site, as well as a number of cutaways, the interview would be stripped down to a couple of minutes and covered with the cutaways captured.

This video shows the typical format of most of the content.

I was also on hand to capture shots of the festival’s opening party. These shots, again using the Panasonic AF101, were cut into a little montage, giving a flavour of the evenings events.

I was also tasked with capturing a flash mob at the National Museum of Scotland, which was filmed mostly with a single camera, cut together and uploaded within 3 hours.

Finally, I’m throwing in this video, because it was a lot of fun to shoot!

The rest of the vids can be found below.

Festival Foragers

Firewalking at the Edinburgh Science Festival

The Science of Dance

The film was to debut at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010.

Director David Lumsden helmed the making of project and we both came up with this 3 minute promo.

The film itself went on two win two Trailblazer awards and was included in the Festival’s ‘Best of the Fest’ category.

More Recently Dave and I returned to the footage to create this follow up video, which focuses on a big scene in the film.

Richie

This part covers the story of the film and features concept art from Anthony Devine and footage from the 4 day shoot in Edinburgh.

This is an extract from the current Evening News feature on ‘Boat’

David, 28, said: “It’s a story about a post-apocalyptic world featuring a father and his son who are basically trying to survive at sea and find a place to live. They sail between different buildings, a bit like a version of The Road on water, looking for somewhere to call home. The father is under a lot of pressure and there are a lot of dream-like sequences that might be real or might in his head, which makes it a bit like Inception.

“The reason Edinburgh has become that way is only really hinted at, but there’s an environmental element to it.”

After writing the film in late 2010, David found matte painter Anthony Devine on the internet. He has designed all the backgrounds, including the city centre, crumbling flats at Sighthill and a submerged Forth Road Bridge. The crew also includes his friend, Edinburgh-based Katie Crook, who has produced the short under her company, Blue Iris Films.

The team spent four days filming Boat in January, three of which were shot using a green screen that will have the backgrounds added to it later, and one day beside Edinburgh Castle.

This is an extract from the current Evening News feature on ‘Boat’

David, 28, said: “It’s a story about a post-apocalyptic world featuring a father and his son who are basically trying to survive at sea and find a place to live. They sail between different buildings, a bit like a version of The Road on water, looking for somewhere to call home. The father is under a lot of pressure and there are a lot of dream-like sequences that might be real or might in his head, which makes it a bit like Inception.

“The reason Edinburgh has become that way is only really hinted at, but there’s an environmental element to it.”

After writing the film in late 2010, David found matte painter Anthony Devine on the internet. He has designed all the backgrounds, including the city centre, crumbling flats at Sighthill and a submerged Forth Road Bridge. The crew also includes his friend, Edinburgh-based Katie Crook, who has produced the short under her company, Blue Iris Films.

The team spent four days filming Boat in January, three of which were shot using a green screen that will have the backgrounds added to it later, and one day beside Edinburgh Castle.

In this part we take a look at the artwork that aided the green screen heavy production and allowed the writer/director David Lumsden to communicate to cast and crew the sort of world that Boat takes place within.

This new instalment to the series has coincided with the launch of the film’s official website, which, in the coming weeks/months will be reporting on the film’s progress, you can also check it out for production stills and cast and crew biogs.

www.boatthefilm.com

Keep an eye out for further episodes, coming soon!

-Richie

The site is in it’s early stages at the moment, but in the coming weeks I will be tinkering with the look of the site and adding lots of interesting content, such as videos, pictures and perhaps the occasional blog.

So check back soon!

Richie

The filming took place one sunny Sunday in North London at Lordship Park, a large Victorian House purposely decorated for photo shoots.

http://lordshippark.com/home

My camera of choice for the day was the Sony Z1E set to HDV mode.  I was able to spruce up the footage afterwards with Magic Bullet Looks Suite.

For more information on Susanne Beer, visit susannebeer.co.uk

For more information on Garat Records visit garatrecords.com

- Richie