Filming Day 2 "Behind the Spleans"

Filming Day 2!

Behind the Spleans!!!

Today we filmed a few more scenes for the upcoming movie "Splatterpus" that i am directing. Today we had a bigger cast than usual. We had Dave Cowell, Craig Finch, Dan Cowell, Callum Dallimore anda new addition Tom Portman. This was great as it meant we could get much more done. The only problem was that those darstedly clocks had to be changed and we lost a whole hour of sunlight (an hour we could have done with) but thats ok because today we managed to get the shots of Brad playing with his baby in the park (before it gets snatched by a zombie) and we also got th legendary intestine pulling out scenes!

We did these scenes by first making a few bottles of fake blood. We then filled up a standard plastic chinese takeaway pot with it. Then we got some tights and filled them with tissue paper and then left them to soak in the pots filled with blood. They came out pretty well i have to say, so if you ever want semi realistic fake guts give that a try.

Tom/dave

Like i said before, we also managed to get the shot done of Brad (Callum) playing with his baby at the play park. That was a fun one to film as there were also parents and children in the park. The parents seemed amused at our childish looking antics, where as the children...well they looked sort of terrified. The stunt baby we were using was our THIRD and most expensive baby yet. The other 2 werent really in a fit state for re using after the last day of filming and we had no more luck finding 50p ones in the local charity shops. In the end i had to bite the bullet and get the cheapest Argos one i could get. It was £4.99 and her name is Sally.

Swing

The other shots we managed to get today before it got too dark to film were the introduction of the actual Platypus and an introduction to the 2 police officers Officer Jenkins and SGT. McDibble.

joeff the zombie

All in all i am really pleased with how today turned out. As promised heres a few pictures of the cast (not including ALL their different roles) and also a behind the scenes video from today:

Callum Dallimore