No Respite Productions

Inspiration can come from the strangest of places.

I was watching the brilliant That Mitchell and Webb Look on BBC and they have a fantastic sketch on there called The Quiz Broadcast. What's funny about this sketch is that this light hearted piece of entertainment seeminly takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where people are constantly told to "stay indoors" and a thing known as "the event" is referenced as causing the current state of affairs. The event itself is not expanded upon but characters frequently talk about it and the horrific effects it has had on mankind.

Watching this, I laughed my head off and then began to wonder exactly what would "the event" look like. This is the subject of a new script I'm currently writing. It's going to be a very short and morbid affair, starring just myself due to a lack of any other willing actors.

This is something small to keep me productive and creative whilst I still wait for the forever stalled filming of Ring of Death to eventually take place.

I've always avoided television in favour of working on my own creative pieces, but it would seem that in doing so I've missed out on a rather fundemental need... inspiration. Here's a clip of the show that I could find for you to enjoy.

This blog has been very quiet because no filming has taken place recently. No filming has taken place because it's been incredibly difficult to find a date that two or more people can agree to.

 This is a very common problem with amateur film making, normally people are incredibly busy with this, that and the other. So you try to arrange something even a month away and it turns out that people have weddings/holidays/stag dos etc. It's fair enough, but it doesn't help get a film released. Even worse is the very fragmented nature of the shoots themselves, you could have one shoot booked for next week, thennot another for a months time.

So I've decided to attempt a different way of booking people's time, a method more akin to what they do in the professional industry. This involved setting a defined period for filming, which in my case is now five weeks during November -December. During these weeks my actors have to remain free of as many social appointments as possible, and prepared to do multiple shoots during consequtive evenings/days.

Hopefully this will help focus all of our effort (and the inconvenience of filming) into a single defined period, rather than the scattershot and fragmented way that has been so far.

Obviously strings are attached to this, some people may not feel comfortable in having such a large portion of time taken out of their personal calendars. Hopefully that won't put them off too much and fingers crossed by the end of the year the whole film will be in the wrap!

At the end of the day, trying to find random dates that more than two people could attend wasn't really working out. So fingers crossed this alternative trial will yield better results.

Adam