Quote: Matthew Stott @ February 21 2013, 3:35 PM GMTI dunno, I found the guy playing David Bussell a bit wanting.
Yeah, in retrospect I'm not sure using that understudy was a good idea.
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It seems like a lifetime ago we made this, but it was only three years ago. Not that long ago really.
For a 3 year old it is a lifetime.
I thought this was good the first time round, and it is still as good. I would definitely watch this if it was on TV.
You're very kind, Will. It would have been a real treat to have been commissioned and get the chance to work with that cast and crew again.
Well done again to all involved, top stuff 
Looks excellent and it must have been a great privillege for Kevin Eldon to perform with all of you.
Do you want feedback? (other than the crackle between skits was a little loud)
Quote: sootyj @ February 22 2013, 12:49 PM GMTLooks excellent and it must have been a great privillege for Kevin Eldon to perform with all of you.
Do you want feedback? (other than the crackle between skits was a little loud)
It's unlikely we'll be doing any more, and we won't be changing what we have shot, but you can say what you like about it. I for one know that there's plenty that could have been done if we had the time over.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ February 22 2013, 12:55 PM GMTI for one know that there's plenty that could have been done if we had the time over.
I bet that's an itchy feeling. Too many ideas, not enough time.
The most interesting thing about this is what a difference having good performers make. I'm pretty sure if we were to have read these scripts in critique, they might not come across as anything other that good to very good or maybe even bad.
How different was the original script to the finished piece? Because it's all the little actions in the crab-hand sketch, that really bring it to life, and no offence (I maybe wrong) but I can't imagine you managed to write all of them before (crab)hand.
Quote: Lee @ February 22 2013, 2:22 PM GMTHow different was the original script to the finished piece? Because it's all the little actions in the crab-hand sketch, that really bring it to life, and no offence (I maybe wrong) but I can't imagine you managed to write all of them before (crab)hand.
No offence taken! Any examples?? I mean, everything we shot was in the script by the time it came to shooting it; what you see is how it was written, and then we'd go through with the director how to visualise it on screen.
Quote: sootyj @ February 22 2013, 12:49 PM GMTLooks excellent and it must have been a great privillege for Kevin Eldon to perform with all of you.
Do you want feedback? (other than the crackle between skits was a little loud)
Thank you, and yes it was (especially him allowing me to punch him in the back of the head).
At this point it's too late for feedback to be implemented (we're two major projects ahead of this now) but feel free to offer critique if you must.
Quote: Lee @ February 22 2013, 2:22 PM GMTI bet that's an itchy feeling. Too many ideas, not enough time.
The most interesting thing about this is what a difference having good performers make. I'm pretty sure if we were to have read these scripts in critique, they might not come across as anything other that good to very good or maybe even bad.
How different was the original script to the finished piece? Because it's all the little actions in the crab-hand sketch, that really bring it to life, and no offence (I maybe wrong) but I can't imagine you managed to write all of them before (crab)hand.
The fact is that we had pretty much unprecedented creative control over the project, but once the cameras start rolling the Director is king, and over the course of 4 incredibly fast-moving 14 hour days things will slip you by. There are definitely things I would have spent more time on given a do-over (we dropped an entire sketch because the punch never quite came together) but at a certain point you have to accept that something is what it is, let it go and move on to the next thing. As a crash-course in professional film-making the experience was worth more than any course we could have taken and it provided us with contacts we still use to this day.
As for the writing, I'm pretty sure everything that ended up on film was on the page before Action was called.
Maybe the odd line of dialogue was tweaked, but action wise I don't think anything was changed on the day.
That's interesting. The only reason I bring it up is because with the majority of what you three have posted up (and a common theme within critique amongst other writers) is that most people seem to forget to concentrate of the visual side of things in their scripts.
Quote: David Bussell @ February 21 2013, 1:34 PM GMTIt's been over two years since we produced this pilot starring Alice, Lowe, Kevin Eldon and Steve Furst, and given that it's yet to find a home on TV, we decided to release it online as a sort of cult curiosity.
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I like Cults and I like Curiosity's so in all I really enjoyed this and would like to see more. Oh I have to ask, did you kidnap Kevin Eldon and Steve Furst to be in this or did they willingly do it.. 
Nice one David, Matthew, Ben
No they just kidnapped the audience.
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