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Post by Sparky on Oct 10, 2019 6:29:26 GMT
In 2013 - I had the misfortune of working on this... totally shot in Huddersfield (at a disused mill) and in the air-con plant at Huddersfield FC.
It snowed for the entire shoot. The Director of Photograpahy was a total k*ob (to Corden standards) - and insisted everything was lit Green (why they couldn't do this in Post Production is anyones guess).
He then decided at the end of the shoot that he wanted to re-shoot a major sequence - for reasons known only known to him and no one else - but didn't have any budget left to do it. So we (stupidly) did it on a "promise" of getting the overtime once the film had been released (so far I've received £25 since 2013).
At the same time, there was a spate of Horror films being made around Yorkshire. At the other end of the budget scale - I ended up working on this delight... about 60% of which was shot in a converted barn in Selby, and the rest CGI. And we were paid for this.
Sorry to inflict this in you all.
But as we were discussing dreadful films, I think at least one here does qualify!
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 10, 2019 6:37:23 GMT
Oh my good gawd Sparky!
What have you created!
Do the rest of your crew ever feel like having a coup, tying up the director and finishing the film yourselves?
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Post by Cartman on Oct 10, 2019 7:28:58 GMT
I think horror films are, in general, rubbish apart from the Hammer ones from the 60s which were usually set in Europe or Britain in about the 17th century. Recent ones made in the UK are universally terrible
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Post by Sparky on Oct 10, 2019 10:22:05 GMT
Oh my good gawd Sparky! What have you created! Do the rest of your crew ever feel like having a coup, tying up the director and finishing the film yourselves? There was no way any of the crew would have wanted to take the film over and complete it.
The overtime issue is currently in the hands of the various interested Unions. Though this was 6 years ago - and the overtime didn't mount to that much - but there is a Principle, and also we all have families to feed and bills to pay.
They create a LTD company for each film, which holds all the cash and liabilities. A production accountant is supposed to work out spending the budget efficiently - while factoring in overtime and unexpected costs.
Once the film is complete, the company is dissolved.
If the film ran out of cash - ie Bankcrupt - the debts would be written off, the producers would move on and the Crew left unpaid.
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 10, 2019 10:26:15 GMT
Oh my good gawd Sparky! What have you created! Do the rest of your crew ever feel like having a coup, tying up the director and finishing the film yourselves? There was no way any of the crew would have wanted to take the film over and complete it.
The overtime issue is currently in the hands of the various interested Unions. Though this was 6 years ago - and the overtime didn't mount to that much - but there is a Principle, and also we all have families to feed and bills to pay.
They create a LTD company for each film, which holds all the cash and liabilities. A production accountant is supposed to work out spending the budget efficiently - while factoring in overtime and unexpected costs.
Once the film is complete, the company is dissolved.
If the film ran out of cash - ie Bankcrupt - the debts would be written off, the producers would move on and the Crew left unpaid.
Didn't know that, now I understand.
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Post by Sparky on Oct 10, 2019 10:28:23 GMT
Is there a "Top 10" shockingly poor films? Or should we have one?!
Normally they are called "Straight to Video" movies.
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 10, 2019 12:18:35 GMT
Normally they are called "Straight to Video" movies.
My wedding recording certainly was!
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Post by Sparky on Oct 10, 2019 14:37:34 GMT
Normally they are called "Straight to Video" movies.
My wedding recording certainly was! Oooh nooo. Wedding Videos. I loath them. (No disrespect to those who have videos of the day and they are made tastefully)
Though, my 2 sons did a fine job of filming my sisters wedding - it very nearly turned into an episode of the "Sweeney". The youngest one wanted a Punch up at the wedding do with tables going over (A'la 'Night out') and the Eldest wanted a car chase (A'la 'Stoppo Driver'). Would have made a great video - though I doubt the relatives would have been impressed.
I still can't comprehend that people are now videoing loved ones Funeral services.
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Post by Dick Dastardly on Oct 10, 2019 18:53:01 GMT
Yes that brings back some memories..... none of them very good haha!!
Think the trailer is longer than the film; looking at it now there are some faces I seem to remember seeing in other programmes.
Anyway time for the first of my therapy sessions!
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 10, 2019 19:05:38 GMT
My wedding recording certainly was! Oooh nooo. Wedding Videos. I loath them. (No disrespect to those who have videos of the day and they are made tastefully)
Yeah, me too. I’m not in the remake of mine, apparently I don’t appeal to younger audiences.
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