I am currently half way through shooting The Good North in and around Rochdale and Oldham in the North of England. It’s been fantastic! Been working with the fantastic Jack Deam, Linzey Cocker & Zoe Iqbal. Next week, on to the interiors with Michelle Holmes and Diane Beck!
Using the 7D, it’s perfect for this project! Smaller chip size means it has a fantastic ‘cinema’ feel. To be honest, framing up feels like we are using 35mm again :-) Justin Brown is DoP, great to get to work with him on a short. It’s all going well! Can’t wait to finish and get down to cutting…
I’ve been working hard over the past few days on a skeleton script for the the quartet of shorts shot in the North of England. The idea is to workshop the scripts into 2 minute scenes that will interlink and form a 6 minute short.
The content is based on a few things – Each short is titled – these titles will be a words which I feel reflect not only elements of life there, but also form a dramatic representation of the shorts. The power will be in the choice of ‘slice’ that we take. The situation we choose to dramatise – in and out in 2 minutes then on to a contrasting yet wholly linked scene.
In many ways it will be similar to Cotton Stones. It will be more abstract in cinematic construction, but no less realistic in the situation. Grabbing quick story elements from the lives of a few people.
What I can say about the story is that it will be reflecting the recent localised right wing politics in the area. It has been brewing for many years there, but recently members of the ultra-right wing party; the BNP have taken legitimate seats at the European Elections last week. I’m hoping to represent the areas lack of willing to take this head on at a local, personal level.
