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notes from the basement 

4/12/2016

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PictureGray O'Brien and Shabana Smith
So here we are, deep in the heart of post-production. So much to tell, but so little time because…post-production.
Everybody keeps asking “when is that movie of yours going to be done?” It’s like when you’re nine months pregnant and everybody keeps asking when that baby’s going to pop.  The answer is “Pass me a sandwich, and one of those nice pickles. Oh, and a bucket of coffee, please. Because I haven’t had time to eat or sleep this week."


Been busy looking at stuff like this (eyes right) 


​So here’s what you need to know about how we're doing...
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  • It looks beautiful. Stunning. We are wildly happy.
  • The performances are outstanding. We expected a lot, but this is beyond the beyond of the beyond. And don’t even get me started on the chemistry of our two young leads, Lauren McQueen and Sean Stevenson. You can’t tear your eyes off them.
  • While we’re on about chemistry, Alexz Johnson and Brendan Flynn are a riot to watch together. 
  • Our editor is a superhero.
  • Our composers have started their work on the score and every day is a beautiful revelation. They are innovative, talented and they really understand the deep connection between the story and the music.
  • Every time I sit in front of the screen (and so far it’s been hundreds of times) and see all our hard work coming together so perfectly, I’m newly grateful for the miracle that is my cast and my crew.
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Cast. Crew. Lunch. Much miracles.
 
Yes, post-production takes long time. So do babies. But in the end, they’re both worth it.  And unlike babies, The Wasting won’t throw up on you. 
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the misogynist ghost of captain bound

12/6/2015

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There’s this 17th century bad seed and his name is Captain Bound. He has nothing to do with our film. Except that we shot The Wasting in Upton-upon-Severn, and in Upton, Captain Bound is the local ghost. Everybody has something to say about him in this town of deep history, where the innkeepers talk as much about who haunts them as what’s on tap. 
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Pubs and ghosts - an unbeatable combo
Everywhere we went in Upton, people wanted to know if we were making a movie about the notorious Captain. Or if we’d seen any sign of him. We heard his name so much I feel like he’s one of us, and so it behooves me to write about him.  I’ll try to find something good to say, but really, Captain Thomas Bound sounds like he was most unpleasant.
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Bound's boss, Cromwell. Also unpleasant.
Born in 1615, he was a Puritan (See? Unpleasant!) with Cromwell’s forces when they won the critical Battle of Upton in the English Civil War. He probably enjoyed the war, because rumour has it that Captain Bound liked to kill. Specifically, he liked to kill his wives. He had four of them, three named Mary, in that sadly unimaginative era. Two of them were murdered, but the authorities could never pin it on the captain. I’m not sure they even tried.
 In time, Captain Bound committed suicide, drowning himself. Maybe guilt caught up with him, but death didn’t let him off that easy, as he’s still seen galloping around Upton, possibly looking for another Mary. If he was looking for a Jenny, he could stop galloping, as every second person I met in Upton was called Jenny. No Marys though. Maybe Upton's parents caught on - don't call your daughter Mary. 
We were hoping that, what with all that bounding about, we’d have seen him. We shot on Rectory Road, where he lived, and where his ghost is often spotted. We shot on The Ham, the riverside meadow that’s another of his haunts.  Didn’t see him, but we did see a lot of really nice Labradors. 
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No galloping ghosts here, just the marginally spectral Gray O'Brien
And then - on Friday the 13th - we shot in Old Hall, on Rectory Road, in a flat that one of the poor murdered Marys is said to haunt.  Our makeup artist Sian and I were minding our own business, sitting near the window where her ghost is sometimes seen standing, when something suddenly moved behind us. (Sidenote to Gray O’Brien: It was not a cat!) I thought Sian did it and she thought I did it, and when we compared notes, we realized neither of us did it.  But it definitely moved, and made a noise, and freaked us out. 
Did they just see Mary's ghost?
Old Hall in the monitor
And that was it. It was good enough. Really, I’m not that keen to see a ghost, especially a misogynistic one, despite my many years of writing about them. And we did have other brushes with Upton’s ghostly mythology, but I’ll save those for another post. 
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