October 2010

richkeeble / Acting / No Small Matter, Smoke & Mirrors 48hr Film Festival / 0 Comments

No Small Matter

October 24, 2010

rich_keeble_15 — Massive house of cards? Or 2 men holding up a small one on a breadboard just out of shot?

A few weeks ago I was asked by Jon Kerby and Paul Jones (who I worked with on Tax Cuts and respect immensly – although I’d never tell them that) to star in a short film they were going to make as part of the Smoke and Mirrors 48 hour film festival. The idea is you get given a theme for your film at 7pm on the Friday, then have till 7pm on the Sunday to write, film, edit and submit your finished film to them. The theme was ‘size’ and a great script was written by Chris Silver, which basically involved me as some weirdo bursting into a married couple’s house and competing with the husband (played by Chris) in trying to impress his wife (played by Chris’ actual girlfriend Sofia).

I won’t spoil it too much as I’ll wait until it’s online, but I had to burst in on the two of them in the shower, getting in between them ‘naked’, stuff my face with a fried breakfast which was fairly cold by the time we got to filming (and I had a hangover), and end up ‘naked’ again in their lounge.

I’ve put a couple of photos up in my photos section, and I apologise if one of them in particular makes you feel a little ill.

richkeeble / Acting /

scAIRcrows again

October 24, 2010

5033840157_4ea5bb1eb4_o — Filming scAIRcrows, dir: Chris Galagher.

So usually I only post about things here when I’ve actually got a still from the film or whatever (unless it’s a gig flyer!). Having already bucked that trend by posting about this film before I’d actually filmed my part, I’m going to post about the same film again before I’ve even seen an edit. Having said that though, I’m only going to be brief here as I don’t really want to give anything away about the scene, other than the fact that I die in a fairly cool and messy way.

This shoot was a bit unsual though from my experience, as originally my scene was me performing a magic trick to 4 ‘friends’. This was then cut to 2 friends, and then on the day of the shoot when we were in position and all ready to go, one of my ‘friends’ just didn’t turn up, so the scene was then changed to just Miranda, the other actress who had turned up, and me.

It could have been a real disaster as it was freezing cold waiting for this guy, but we ended up having a great laugh nonetheless. I even improvised a fairly childish and expletive-heavy few lines about the other actor/’friend’ not turning up, which Chris the director actually decided to keep in, much to my amazement. Chris has actually written about Miranda and me in a very favourable light on his blog, for which I thank him very much. I look forward to seeing the final cut. Also, I should say thanks to Jenny for the spare jeans after mine got covered in blood. Naturally the T-shirt and suit jacket they supplied at the beginning of the filming were completely blood-free, but that’s all part of the fun!