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Fanz and Fantoms!
If there’s a lesson to be learned from editing a documentary, its that whatever structure you have in place, throw it out!
As I’m finalising the edit on FANZ (my flick about DOCTOR WHO fans), I’ve realised that I’ve so much good footage that I’m in a constant battle to swap, exchange, bin or replace footage to make the final cut. It’s almost there now and with a running time of an hour, I think I’ve put together quite a comprehensive overview of DOCTOR WHO fandom.
I’ve some brilliant interviewee’s including J Jeremy Bentham (Doctor Who Historian), David J Howe (Telos Publishing), Lawrence Miles (Faction Paradox), Justin Richards (Writer), Stephen James Walker (Writer), Toby Hadoke (Comedian), Alistair Lock (Actor), Nick Scovell (Dalek Stage Plays), Steve O’Brien (Cult TV Writer), Paul Wilson and Seb Brook (Doctor Who Online), Stuart Robinson (Writer), Anthony Weiner (Doctor Who Appreciation Society), Neil Oseman and Rob Tizzard (Filmmakers), Gareth Preston (Westlake Films), Dan Harris (Sci-Fi Sea Cruise) and The Who Shop (Retailers) plus guest appearances from Nicholas Briggs (Voice of the Daleks) and Louise Jameson (Leela).
I know it’s a bit overdue but I hope people will enjoy it so watch this space!
We’ve a couple of paranormal investigations coming up in the next couple of weeks. We have the Viaduct Tavern in London and Carew Manor in Surrey. With Carew, I’ve wanted to get in there for years and we will be the first paranormal team to explore this Grade 1 Listed building…it’s allegedly very active of course, we shall see!
As I’m finalising the edit on FANZ (my flick about DOCTOR WHO fans), I’ve realised that I’ve so much good footage that I’m in a constant battle to swap, exchange, bin or replace footage to make the final cut. It’s almost there now and with a running time of an hour, I think I’ve put together quite a comprehensive overview of DOCTOR WHO fandom.
I’ve some brilliant interviewee’s including J Jeremy Bentham (Doctor Who Historian), David J Howe (Telos Publishing), Lawrence Miles (Faction Paradox), Justin Richards (Writer), Stephen James Walker (Writer), Toby Hadoke (Comedian), Alistair Lock (Actor), Nick Scovell (Dalek Stage Plays), Steve O’Brien (Cult TV Writer), Paul Wilson and Seb Brook (Doctor Who Online), Stuart Robinson (Writer), Anthony Weiner (Doctor Who Appreciation Society), Neil Oseman and Rob Tizzard (Filmmakers), Gareth Preston (Westlake Films), Dan Harris (Sci-Fi Sea Cruise) and The Who Shop (Retailers) plus guest appearances from Nicholas Briggs (Voice of the Daleks) and Louise Jameson (Leela).
I know it’s a bit overdue but I hope people will enjoy it so watch this space!
We’ve a couple of paranormal investigations coming up in the next couple of weeks. We have the Viaduct Tavern in London and Carew Manor in Surrey. With Carew, I’ve wanted to get in there for years and we will be the first paranormal team to explore this Grade 1 Listed building…it’s allegedly very active of course, we shall see!
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Spirit comes out to play
We were invited by those top folk at Dark Encounters Paranormal Group and The Spiritual Connextion Awards to film a Charity Ghost Hunt at Southsea Castle in Portsmouth on Friday 19th October. With Special Guests Richard Felix, the mighty Phil Whyman (both former Most Haunted dudes) and Mark Webb joining the investigation, it was a really great evening with us finally meeting face to face our mates Lee and Chrissy from WightGhost (they are also the presenters of the rather superb Pulse Radio). A big shout out also to Norie and the team at Dark Encounters for organising it all and hope to be doing some more work with them in the not too distant future.
Whilst we’re on the subject of the paranormal, I want to let you know about our experiences on Saturday 13th October in Oxford. I was invited by a lovely lady called Karen to film a joint investigation with herself, David Vee (he of TV’s Haunted Homes), the guys from Extreme Paranormal and us. We were supposed to do a Victorian House but we ended up at Abingdon Town Football Club that they had arranged and what an excellent location this turned out to be.
Things started slowly as we didn’t arrive at the location until 10.30pm and had to wait for the punters to leave. But then it kicked off, we had Karen (a psychic) allegedly having two possessions during the night but it was the communication circle around a small table in the meeting room upstairs that changed my outlook overnight…Alan led the circle and we had very loud and definite taps on the table to almost all questions asked.
This was done in two sessions, as spirit did not seem to want me to film the first time so I sat in on it (we had a Dictaphone though). Now, taps would have been good enough but when the table elevated many times on command, I could hardly believe what I was seeing and I’m the kind of person who try’s to exhaust every rational explanation before declaring it ‘unknown’. I’ve always questioned this sort of table tipping in the past but it seems I’ve been proven wrong, I, of course was constantly checking under the table to make sure everyone’s feet were away from the legs of the table. The table was also quite heavy and misplay would have been very difficult.
Luckily on the second session, I managed to get plenty of video footage of this phenomena and is very compelling footage of spirit activity...oh, and the trigger objects (3 coins) had moved in the room whilst all this was going on.
Now how about a full-blown apparition and have done with it?
Whilst we’re on the subject of the paranormal, I want to let you know about our experiences on Saturday 13th October in Oxford. I was invited by a lovely lady called Karen to film a joint investigation with herself, David Vee (he of TV’s Haunted Homes), the guys from Extreme Paranormal and us. We were supposed to do a Victorian House but we ended up at Abingdon Town Football Club that they had arranged and what an excellent location this turned out to be.
Things started slowly as we didn’t arrive at the location until 10.30pm and had to wait for the punters to leave. But then it kicked off, we had Karen (a psychic) allegedly having two possessions during the night but it was the communication circle around a small table in the meeting room upstairs that changed my outlook overnight…Alan led the circle and we had very loud and definite taps on the table to almost all questions asked.
This was done in two sessions, as spirit did not seem to want me to film the first time so I sat in on it (we had a Dictaphone though). Now, taps would have been good enough but when the table elevated many times on command, I could hardly believe what I was seeing and I’m the kind of person who try’s to exhaust every rational explanation before declaring it ‘unknown’. I’ve always questioned this sort of table tipping in the past but it seems I’ve been proven wrong, I, of course was constantly checking under the table to make sure everyone’s feet were away from the legs of the table. The table was also quite heavy and misplay would have been very difficult.
Luckily on the second session, I managed to get plenty of video footage of this phenomena and is very compelling footage of spirit activity...oh, and the trigger objects (3 coins) had moved in the room whilst all this was going on.
Now how about a full-blown apparition and have done with it?
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