That Crazy Business of Filmmaking! (3/3) By Eddie Rex

(1/3), (2/3), (3/3).

Before Christmas 2006 I directed When Evil Calls - about an agony uncle on radio who receives a phone call from a dead guy! It's received nearly 2000 hits on YouTube and sent to Propeller TV with Airport 9/11, but it's still awaiting a transmission.

For most of 2007 I worked on a low budget feature film Jesus F Trotsky, The Greatest Film Never Made, and was cast as the evil, nutcase filmmaker Jesus F Trotsky!

Filming at weekends in Nottingham I enjoyed the production which gave an all expenses paid trip to Cannes. Being my first time in Cannes I realised with a market pass you could even sell the film. I saw buyers from all parts of the world who expected a complete feature, not a film in the making. Our purpose in Cannes was for production, and our four days were well documented in my four part series. The JFT production finished in august and is now in post production.

After its Nottingham premiere the producer will enter all the leading festivals including Cannes, so I feel hopeful.

They say it never rains but it pours and I am not referring to the floods, but my autumn was very busy! Teaming up with Andy Whatmough (Littleern) I produced My World Of Art, a short film about Ernest Wiseman and his ideas of art. The visual comedy is still showing on the Hull Big Screen (now in its third week) and new ideas to improve the film are in development.

I directed The Voice Of Jack about a supernatural serial killer which I entered for the Halloween Challenge but missed the deadline. Currently I am shooting several flashback scenes, before I send a submission to Propeller TV.

Since summer 2002 I have worked on over a dozen short films and one feature, which are all distributed over the internet (myspace, YouTube, ifilm, ukscreen, vod, minimovies, etc) and shown on Propeller TV. Its a myth to believe a London base is essential to make a film, as life does exist north of Watford where production is much, much cheaper! My equipment is currently a Canon XM2, Sennheiser ME66 mic and Premiere Pro 1.5 editing software. I will transfer to HD, but not yet.

My video services are advertised in the Hull Colour Pages under the trading name of National Pictures and last week completed my first paid job filming in the Pozition nightclub. Which was fun despite losing my camcorder battery, but an eBay replacement was only £7.59 and my client seemed happy with my work. Production will start next year on Keith Vader.

The feature film follows the life of Keith whose currently locked up in the monkey house (or jail) for his drunken behaviour. Being the cousin of Darth Vader (but twice removed) he lives in Hull and production will begin after his release. The script's in development and a Darth Vader costume was bought off eBay. Recently I set up his website on www.myspace.com/keithvader1 and things are looking forward... That's it for now, and I dedicate this blog to Slack Video who have shown so many of my films!

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