Nothing but the Wild Rain
Unwittingly two chumps - a cocky lad and a poet with sensitivity, fall for the same girl. The laddish approach seems to win out at first but there is only one thing the lad can do when he finds out his romantic friend is properly 'in love'.
Set to the poetry of Edward Thomas this was Camp Films breakthrough production screening on ITV's New Visions to an audience of 2.5 million in 1995. Co written and co directed by Gail Herrod and Tim Gripton, the production was shot to plan and cut in three days. The music was composed in an afternoon and the film was telecinied at YTV. The film cost £1200 in total and was shelved for a year because of concerns over the lighting. All this in the context of a 3 to 1 shooting ratio. It doesn't get any more efficient than that and somehow 'the magic' worked. We had two feet of snow on the third day of filming just before christmas 1993 that can be seen entering the final shot of the bicycle scene. I suggested we carry on filming and call it 'Nothing But The Wild Snow' but we pulled the shoot and re shot the last two day early in the new year. The production challenges were: finding an interior and exterior location for the 'Kiss' and designing believable rainfall for that scene. The sollution was a four foot length of plastic plumbers pipe drilled with holes on one side. Each end was attached to a hose pipe leading to bathroom and kitchen and taps were coordinated with the camera crew. The bus and driver was donated and we drove ten mile circles to return to our thirty degree angle Ecclesall Rd (we could only use existing bus routes only). The windows steamed up with crew and cast cramming the top deck and this blocked the audiences view of the snowy landscape outside.
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