When Neil Walters, the writer of the short story “Best Goon Brenn”, approached his friends Tam and Dave Jarvis, (Skim New Media,) to ask if they would like to turn the story into a short film, the answer, thankfully, was a yes!
Eclectica films was born on that night, over the clinking of glasses in a local Cornish pub. The three of them then set about finding actors, musicians, technicians, photographers and anyone who wanted to get on board with a collaborative film-making project. More importantly, they set about finding anyone who was happy to give their time. Thankfully everyone they spoke with also said yes… to everything. Eclectica Films had become the collective that they had hoped for, and so began the making of their first film.
When two life-long friends go in search of “The Beast of Bodmin Moor”, will they get more than they bargained for?
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What an innocuous title for our third “entry.” I had written the story; I knew my characters; I knew the plot, so we just read the story and made a film. Right? Wrong. In between those two processes is the task of turning the story into something that works as a movie. Forgive me if…
Hopefully you enjoyed my first blog, or in keeping with my Bram Stoker theme, I should write, first “Journal entry” enough to arrive at this second. A strange title, but allow me to elaborate. Growing up I was an avid consumer of both horror films, and horror books. Before “On Demand” television and more than…
