Nothing
Designer couple Kaz and Nillis go crazy for he new uber- stylish nothing' catalogue, as they fill their lives with the 'new' minimalism, their nightmare has only just begun.
The temperature dropped to minus 5 everynight of the five day shoot and we enjoyed our 6 oclock and midnight drives across the fog bound and frosty peak district. The largely unheated location in Stoney Middleton was also a pleasure to work in. Thankfully we were kept so busy moving furniture, props, and rigging lights, black out and gel in the converted factory roof that we didn't notice - much. The challenge of the shoot was creating the final 'no face' special effect. A professional cgi company agreed to do it before christmas for coffee money and goodwill only and all seemed set. It was also a challenge creating the look of ultra high style contemporary luxury living on a total art and costume budget of £600. When you think a single designer product of this type cost £1000 and we had to fill the place, I think we did ok!
On set production went steadily and there was a great atmosphere between cast and crew, fuelled as we were by organic food from Whole food suppliers Beanies and Lembas in Sheffield. Delays were caused by the need to black out or gel 50 meteres of window and by the length of time it takes to produce 'top end' 'white' graphics on set of the 'nothing' products. Our problems really began in editing when we found out the JVC hd100 camera was unsupported by editing software in Europe. The delay caused the CGI company to pull out and that left us with a huge problem of trying to track a three dimensional digitally produced 'face' to our actor as he turned through 360 degrees and produce the layers of skin colour, shadow and texture at HDV quality. We built a wire frame of Mark Hudson and Vicki Boltons face using a revollutionary new 'face recognition technology being developed at Sheffield University. 9 months later and seven months after my screen delivery date at Screen Yorkshire, the effect was finished and the film was ready for output. Apple had updated its software and 'Final cut' could outpout HDV footage from the JVCHD100! Thanks JVC and Thanks Screen Yorkshire and Hugo Hepple for your understated support.
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