Stills from short film "Abbeyhill"

[salvador]

Hey, I've been working on this short for a couple of months, from idea to edit and thought I'd post some of the stills from the shoot. It's my first proper film for two years and the the rough edit is running at around 13 minutes. It came about after a certain heated discussion on these forums!

These are stills from the footage taken on shoot day 1





These photographs are by David Arthur from shoot day 2










These photographs are by Kerri Rolland from shoot day 3

[Tom]

Yeah, I'm excited about this. And that handsome fella in the second day's shoot, he looks talented... Ha ha. Nice one. Can't wait to see how it all turns out.

[dude]

nice stills the B/W look great

[Gareth]

haha what are you pondering in that field tom?? whats for lunch?

[salvador]

You'll find the lunch was very good!

[Tom]

Jul 1, 2008 12:12:42 GMT Gareth said:

haha what are you pondering in that field tom?? whats for lunch?

Ha ha. Yeah, lunch was indeed very, very good.

I was pondering 'Will this look good on my Facebook?' Ha ha.

[Dazza]

Well Salv what the hell is all this that you have been keeping quiet about??? Whats the film about then fella? Looks good from the Stills mate ;D

[salvador]

Cheers Dazz, I think in the past I was guilty or shouting my mouth off about my projects, saying they were great etc when they clearly weren't. So I just thought it best to calm down, take the time to develop an idea and see it through, concentrate more on what I'm doing as oppose to where its going to get me or how good it will be etc (I hope that makes sense).

The film is the most personal, individual and original piece I have made. For the first time I have made clear outlines about how I want it shot, acted etc. I would say for the first time I was actually a director. I cut back on crew and made it more about the acting and the story.

Its spit into three stories each "section" shot in a different style and with different qualities of equipment, from domestic DV to HD.

Its a film I want the audience to talk about and decide what its about. I could easily say what I wanted but the truth is my intention really is for the audience to take the movie as they feel.

I will say its a film that looks at 3 couples in the Abbeyhill area of Edinburgh, looking at love, relationships, infidelity, chance encounters, consequence, the unknown and unsaid and whatever else people see in it.

Damn that sounds pretentious! That's why I haven't said anything about it!

I have been blogging about it, if anyone is really interested littlegorebridge.blogspot.com

[RydCook]

Great photos, really looking forward to it Salv.