It is with great pleasure that I bring you the first official teaser trailer for the upcoming film I've been working on, Blood Loss....you may remember this blog I wrote prior to shooting, that gives you lots of fun information and stuff and things. :)
Blood Loss is a short psychological thriller about three guys sent by their criminal boss to finish a job that didn't go well and has taken its toll on each of them. they quickly find themselves caught in the middle of a battle for both revenge and ultimately redemption.
This
coming weekend, 29th and 30th November, recently formed
Arbroath film company that I'm part of, IronStar Films, will be shooting our debut short Blood
Loss. After a successful IndieGoGo
campaign, and a lot of excellent connections within the film industry, the boys and I are ready to further put Arbroath on the film map with Blood Loss; an original revenge thriller, written and directed by one of my oldest friends, Graeme Carr. Graeme was my fellow film nerd at school....and he's a sarcastic shit as well....so obviously we get on perfectly. Mwahahahaa. IronStar Films is also made up of Dean Pearson (who is an astounding DOP/editor...like, he is shit hot!!)....and also my Peter Birnie and Alan Jennings, who have been making awesome little parody skits and stuff for years which are hysterical. All in all, an awesome team! :)
Having
cast my favourite piece of Scottish manflesh, former rugby player and pro strength and conditioning
specialist; international model turned actor, Craig McGinlay in the lead role;
Blood Loss is turning into something more awesome by the second! 2014 has definitely been a very good year for
McGinlay, and this rapidly rising star is most certainly on his way to the
top...which makes it all the more exciting that he was so enthusiastic to get
on board Blood Loss. Basically, McG, or Super Pecs to moi....just think Chris Evans...aka Captain America....he kinda reminds me of him. Mmmmmm...... ;)
2014 has seen Craig
McGinlay star in David Izatt’s The Fairy Flag, followed shortly by a stunt as
the face of Irn Bru for their Commonwealth Games advert and poster campaign.
Craig
then went on to star alongside David Beckham in the Guy Ritchie directed Haig
Club whisky advert which has been aired the world over, and was super rad that he was working with my beloved Madonna's ex hubby. Haha.
After
Land Rover commissioned British James Bond writer William Boyd to write an
original novella featuring the Land Rover brand, in a unique and different form
of brand marketing; Boyd then cast McGinlay from L.A. to star in the film
version, which he cites “‘The Vanishing Game’
was inspired in part by the late John Buchan, the Scottish novelist best known
for the thriller ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps.’” Which for this Hitchcock nerd, it's fucking awesome!! Yup! ;)
Add to this various other films, including vampire flick Dark
Haven, and modelling assignments such as the new Barbour campaign, Selfridges,
Finlay and Co., amongst many more, as well as having just been signed to Major
Models Milan...Craig is most definitely one to look out for in both the world
of fashion, and the world of film. He
has fight trained with George Johnston who has trained the likes of Christian
Bale for Batman, Daniel Craig for James Bond, and Matt Damon for the Bourne
films, as well as Seoras Wallace, who trained Mel Gibson for Braveheart, and
Russell Crowe for Gladiator, so not only can he act, and look good....he’s a
damn good fighter as well! And god daaaaaaaaayummmmm....he looks so fucking hawt when he fights! BWAH!
(Pictured above - Craig McGinlay (right), with Seoras Wallace at the back, and his training partner Mark Wake)
Also
cast is Craig’s Fairy Flag co-star Alan Cuthbert, a former cop turned
self-employed farmer and flourishing actor who has had parts in Sunshine on
Leith, River City, Silent Witness and Waterloo Road, amongst other things. Alan
has also been trained by Seoras Wallace, and continues to work with him, as
does Craig. Alan is brilliant, a great actor, and just a generally all round sound guy to work with.
In
addition to Craig and Alan, local boy Chris O’Mara (pictured below) who created
the Limelight Company in Arbroath, teaching acting to kids and teenagers is also cast and really excited to get on board the project. And his mother is my drug dealer. HAHAHA. Okay, she's actually my pharmacist, but same thing really. Lol. So yesss....Mommy O'Mara is rad as fuck and super quirky, and having spoken to Chris before, he seems sound as fuck, so I'm looking forward to working with him.
Another member of our cast is someone I have also probably encountered in my life, is Dundee born Tom Ingram (pictured below). Just met him earlier on tonight and he is ace. Turns out he used to play for the Dundee Sharks basketball team...as did my boyfriend and so many other people I know. It's a small, small world out there. :)
Last but not least is our only chick, and that is Dean's sister, newcomer and Arbroath girl Demi Pearson, pictured below with Dean as she's doing an selfie as her character. Well...kinda....bwahahahaha.
Make-up
and SFX artists include Hayley Tinline (who did my super awesome as fuck zombie make up, pictured below!!) and Samantha Jack, both of whom worked
on The Fairy Flag with Craig, Alan, Jess and myself. And whilst there are no zombies in this film (despite what people keep thinking, lol)...there is definitely some cool as fuck make up to be done!!
With such a tight schedule, having a group of
people who already have a bond and work well together is definitely a
bonus. Jess Cant Bowman, who was part of
the re-enactment team for The Fairy Flag is also on board to join myself and Pete with
AD work, and was the 1st A.D. on my other project Safe Haven, as well
as work on Andy Stewart’s INK, and recent project Pinfall.
You
can find us on Facebook and Twitter to keep up to date with all the goings on with both IronStar Films and Blood Loss. :)
Filmmaking peeps, check out this wicked opportunity to get on board my friends at IronStar Films new short, Blood Loss. I have been friends with writer/director Graeme Carr for a greater part of my life, and I know how much of a film geek he is, and one with a wicked imagination. These guys are just starting out, but as you can see from the teaser trailer, they are onto something pretty awesome. They're in talks with some outstanding actors, as well as make up artists, and I'm really excited about being part of this project.
You can check out my previous blog on the short, which also features the teaser trailer HERE!
So yay, get on board, spread the love and share, share, share. Thanks to John Carswell, they have a superb location for shooting this too, it's so freakin' cool!! Let's put Arbroath on the map showing the world what Scottish filmmakers are capable of. :)
It is with great pleasure that I present the brand spanking new teaser trailer for my fellow Arbroathians new short film, Blood Loss.
IronStar films, an independent film company created by four local lads in order to produce a variety of short films from original scripts. The first of which is " Blood Loss", a tale of retribution and redemption among a group of friends who find themselves in too deep.
When three friends are forced by a local criminal to sort out a potential problem, their plans end in a horrific accident destroying their lives forever.
Months later the three men are confronted with the possibility that not everything was as it seems, and find themselves caught between a criminal who wants the job done, and a victim who wants revenge....no matter what side they choose, there's going to be ...Blood Loss.
Graeme Carr, Peter Birnie and Al Jennings have been making little short parodies for years now, however, it was only when they met up with the youngster of the group, Dean Pearson, that they decided to take their love of film to the next level. :)
Now I've known Graeme since I was a kid, and he has always been one of the biggest film nerds I know. Ever since we were in our early teens, all we've ever done was talk about films. Well, that and his constant mocking of my love of Take That. Haha. Don't judge me! ;) So with that being said, I know just how good a creative mind that boy has! Put him together with the terrible twosome that are Pete and Jennings, add in Dean, (one of my little sister Kimberley's friends, pictured below with Graeme), and you have the perfect concoction.
I've been watching my boys for some time now, and seeing them grow....spying on them...just not as creepily as Norman Bates!
It was when I met up with Jennings and Pete for lunch back in April, that they showed me not only what they had been working on, but also something that Dean had done himself. Taking inspiration from James Wan's The Conjuring, and the story of the Annabelle doll; Dean did this whole little faux trailer himself...which is really quite tricky when you are trying to work a camera, shake a rocking chair, turn a creepy head around. Silly boy...it was only afterwards he realised he could have just called on his Ghostbusters to come and help him. I'm sure they would appeared, dress to kill and all. :) It makes me so happy though seeing a younger generation of people taking inspiration from my beloved James Wan. James and Leigh redefined the horror genre for a new generation, and so it's totally cool to see others learn, and become inspired by their work. The circle of gore....muuuahahahaha. Sounds so much cooler than the circle of life. *hums song to self*
So yes...expect some interesting and muchos awesome things from these ladie.....I mean boys! ;)
I'd also just like to throw out a big thank you to John Carswell as well, a good friend of mine since I was a teenager. John gave the guys the PERFECT location to shoot this, an abandoned mill that his family are to convert into flats. It looks fucking awesome, so major high five to you Mr Carswell...you'll be getting added to my location scout books! :) This is so cool because it's a local Arbroath business cutie, helping out local aspiring filmmakers too. YAY! Let us show the people of Arbroath just how creeeeeeeeeeepy it can be, muuuuahahahaha. :)
For more information on the project, drop by the Facebook pages for Blood Loss and their new film company, IronStar Films.
And the charming boys that they are, they take me to the nicest of places. Mmmmm.....a walk-in toilet, also known as the Arbroath subway/fornication ground/potty/tampon disposal unit!! ;)
