The Trickshot Story: Part 5 - "Skip To The End"

OK, yes, I've been backward in coming forwards to finish the history of my own film-making endeavours so, because I'm conscious that this is dragging on and anyone still out there amy well be losing the will to live, I'll give you a whistlestop tour from where I left opff to where we are now. Sound good? Alrighty then, strap in and let's go.

Look At The Duck
I made an attempt to turn Trickshot Films into a collective (dubbed "Look At The Duck Productions" in one of those "seemed humourous at the time but is actually long-winded and tedious" style anecdotes) in the early part of the century with a group of likeminded creative types from uni and, while ultimately it didn't quite work out, we still learned some valuable lessons from it - namely that more people means more help but filming by committee means you spend more time trying to get everyone together and plan than actually film. We still came up some great little shorts:- Who's Next? (which can be seen here :- http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_8AskYp5j28), Sleepless, Speed Kills and How To Be A Collector are all still yet to be properly unleashed on the public (look out for a DVD once our feature film's finished!). Department 23 was sadly never completed and Safe As Houses, even more tragically, was completed but no one can find the rushes! Now that is annoying...

Eightball
Meanwhile, Rich's little brother Rob, having been helping us with film for as long as he could remember (he's ten years younger so was much child labour when helping us out on our early stuff*), decided he wanted to make a feature length action film (as you do). So armed with producing/directing help from Rich and a brief cameo from yours truly as a menacing/camp villain**, Trickshot's first feature length attempt was launched. It took around two years to film and edit and culminated in a successful screening for around 250 people in . All of which prompted us to believe that a feature was possible and ultimately led us to...

Incidental Weekend
It's been three years in the making and is a feature length dark comedy about a reunion for four friends who meet up ten years after university. As is the way with low-budget filmmakers who have to go to "proper" jobs while attempting to film/edit in their spare time, it's taken us a lot longer than expected. But, as of this week, the end is in sight and hopefully a date for the screening should be announced soon! And, fianlly, because I'm a shameless self-publicist, for anyone who hasn't seen it, here is the trailer for the film:-

So that brings you up to speed with the history of Trickshot Productions. How are things with you? Has that rash cleared up yet? Good, good...

Next time on Nick Nack Blog Attack:- Random witterings about all manner of stuff and things (which will hopefully be self-contained and not drag on interminably for weeks)

* He wasn't really child labour - we never paid him...

** Depends on your point of view. I played it as menacing. However, somehow that has tranlated to audiences as camp. Which is why I try and stay behind the camera as much as possible. Quentin Tarantino should learn from this example.