Wild's lead, Antonia Clarke, continues to build on her roles in Skins and Holby City earlier this year. In September she featured in ITV's, A Mother's Son, as Jess. More recently she appeared in the final episode of the highly acclaimed BBC/HBO drama, Parade's End. Currently she is filming for a five part ITV drama called Lightfields.
Recently I caught up with Wild's art teacher, the actor Sam Spruell. He's almost completed filming 'Snow White and the Huntsman'. Sounds like an enormous production!
It's photographed by Grieg Fraser who did such an amazing job on 'Bright Star' and while it's probably aimed at the family demographic, I'll be going to my local multiplex to see Sam do battle with Thor - Chris Hemsworth plays the Huntsman - and to check out Greg Frasiers photography.
Sam has played a number of excellent and significant roles in British film and drama, along with some smaller parts in American features. Fingers crossed that this film brings his talents to the attention to the American film industry. He certainly brought some star dust to the set of 'Wild' which was much appreciated.
Here is the trailer
I've been researching credit/title sequences for 'Wild' - our short film - and came across this courtesy of www.artofthetitle.com . Its a charming song with an intelligent and well researched video. I'm still trying to pin all the of the references down...clever stuff
I'm finally at the end of the offline edit which has been an experience...Next time around this burden will definitely be shared with another editor!
Showing the rough cut to people has generated a variety of responses but all of them have been positive. The ending provokes an amount of debate, which can't be a bad thing. Off the back of showing a rough cut 'Wild' has secured itself an excellent sound designer in the form of Jack Gillies. Jack has also managed to get us a theatre mix at Jumbuck which is great news.
The rough cut also persuaded an excellent band called Metronomy to let me use their music in the film. This is really exciting not least because they were short listed for this years Mercury award, but more important to me...I'm a big fan of theirs, so bit of a wish come true! The music really enhances some key scenes, so a big thanks to the band, Pru at Universal Music and Elysa at Because Music for making this happen.
Antonia Clarke, who plays Laura (Wild's lead), has recently been signed by the highly regarded talent agency, Troika, and recently picked up a part in Skins. She's an amazing talent and we at Scissorhands are quite smug that we got there first.
So it looks like we are on course for screenings in December and then putting the film into the festival circuit early next year. It's either the end of days or the beginning. Lets hope for sun
Barring an act of God it looks as if Scissorhands is about to start its first film project. It's been touch and go but an almost autistic desire to get this short into production had brought a host of goodly people together to make it happen.
The shoot starts on the 13th April and runs for 5 days. We'll be launching various social network initiatives and other new fangled means of disseminating info about the project as soon as we get a chance.
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