my name is Nick Stotesbury and for the last year and a half I've spent every spare
minute I have making a feature-length film with my good friend Joe
the film werre making is called "Rudi"
we didn't set out to make a feature-length film it's
just something that kinda happened, with no money or experience in certainly been
an interesting endeavor in this short documentary i wanted to share the journey
we've taken so far and some of the experiences we've had along the way
We started seriously making films only about a couple of years ago prior to
that point we'd only dabbled in making short films which mostly consisted of
running about messing around with mates.
whilst we've always been obsessed by films and had an interest in filmmaking it wasn't until in 2011 we found ourselves
with a bit of spare time, we had an idea for a short film and started off as we
had before just running around with a camera with little idea what we were doing
Over the next year or so we continued to
make films learning and improving with each project. We built up new equipment
cameras, lights and anything we need to get an idea done
We'd learn new software and start branching into digital effects
We'd teach ourselves new techniques by just watching films and the try to figure out
the way it had been shot and then try and emulate it with no budget
In a short space of time we found ourselves completely obsessed
to the point where we had pushed everything else out of our lives
and we're investing all of our disposable income into our new obsession
We had been well and truly bit by the filmmaking bug
so what is Rudi?
Rudi is a comedy sci-fi film ambitiously set across space and time
it follows a group of unlikely misfits thrown together tasked with saving the
world from a hidden threat
in it we've mashed up everything we love in cinema
espionage, conspiracy, action, gunplay,horror, aliens, spaceships,
time travel and romance
so before we started Rudi
The only experience we had was our own run and gun no budget
DIY filmmaking
and we really had no idea what we were getting
ourselves into
we started the film back in December 2012, the original script was
written in a very rough format and in the beginning a lot of it wasn't even
written. We would just carry it around in our heads
we wrote the script regardless of our ability
if we wanted a space landscape or an epic space battle we'd
write it and worry about how we're gonna figure out shooting it later
we knew and we didn't
want our own limitations to prevent us from
achieving it.
We start shooting in January 2013 and
early on we naively made things harder by deciding we wanted to keep outside help
to a minimum this meant that we ended up doing pretty much everything between
just the two of us in front and behind the camera
location-wise the Isle of Wight isn't exactly a location that typically lends
itself to the genre of sci-fi, but with a bit of searching around we found plenty
of locations ideal for our story
beaches caves waterfalls forts bunkers
old railway tunnels and a quarry
one of the major benefits of having no crew was
that we could get in and out of these locations without drawing too much
attention to ourselves filming either late at night or early in
the morning
there were a couple of times when we'd have to explain ourselves though
like when we were caught stood in the middle of a quarry with Joe dressed as
a spaceman at 6:00 in the morning
or when we had to explain to residents why
we'd lit the bunker at the end of their garden pink and blue late one night
whilst the island has a diverse range of amazing scenery to take advantage of
sometimes just getting to a location could prove difficult
many the areas that we shot are
renowned for their instability and quite often when returning to shoot
we'd find that the route we had previously taken no longer existed
this meant that often we'd have to
find a new way to the location which frequently resorted in either
scaling rock faces or massive detours with all our gear
although we were very lucky
to find external locations that often surpassed our expectations the
Island really didn't have anything suitable for our interior shots
we wanted lots of futuristic looking labs and spaceship corridors we didn't want
to over rely on green-screen which we were already using in some scenes
and also for our miniatures fortunately we had access to several barns
on the face of it none of these locations look like that we were after however
after we stripped the areas down we had a blank canvas which we could work with
using whatever scrap materials we could find we were able to
convert these areas into our desired sets
there was a lot of recycling of materials
from scene to scene and making use of things that people chucked out
with no money we made do with whatever resources we had and with
whatever we can find we even resorted to transforming my
bathroom and hallway for a shoot
We took the doors off and covered the whole area in tin foil
we'd written a lot of night time shoots into the film
one scene in particular was set in the woods
away from civilization we had scouted a great location
unfortunately it presented us with two obvious problems
the first was how to light a pitch-black area
and the second was how to get power to somewhere that was literally in the middle of nowhere
to remedy this problem we were lucky to acquire some old broken floodlights
With a couple of rolls of gaffer tape
we were able to get both of them back up and running
to get to the wooded area we wanted to use we had to
connect all the extension leads we had or could buy
we still didn't have enough so this meant we ended up making our own from
some old electrical wire we found lying around and whilst far from ideal the
lighting did work...
most of the time
the majority of night shots we had planned to
shoot in March the idea being that we would still have
enough darkness to not be out filming too late and that it wouldn't be too cold
unfortunately March 2013 ended up being the second coldest since records began
and the six weeks we spent in the woods at night during this period was without
a doubt the most grueling obstacle we faced so far
every night we would be out in sub-zero conditions
a lack of proper planning meant that we'd regularly
overrun often we'd be out filming until 2-3 or 4 o'clock in the morning and then
have to get up and go to work a few hours later
Caked in fake blood
cold, tired and angry this was probably our lowest point of the film
when we finally finished
our night shoots we took a couple of weeks out to work on a short
film called prologue
Prologue was our submission to the Isle of Wight Film Festival
last year (2013) and instead of Prologue being an entirely separate film
it was actually the opening sequence to Rudi
the idea was to go to the festival with something
to show what we've been working on over the last few months
after a couple of weeks break making Prologue
we reflected on our first few months of shooting
we hadn't achieved anywhere near as much as we'd like
and it was evident that we needed to become more structured in the way we worked
our method of going out filming just running and gunning was leading to too much waste
we'd always been resistant to doing things properly planning, writing
shot lists and storyboarding
we had this misconception that it would bog down our enjoyment
and make things too regimented however, from our experience so far
it had taught us that these processes were very necessary
we we're very proud that we'd
made it as far as we had and without any help
but the time had come to start bringing a few people on board to
help us out
this meant we'd no longer have to balance lighting shooting and acting
freeing us up to concentrate on each scene as a whole
it allowed us to pick back up the pace
and hit the ground running we grew more confident with each shoot
and with each scene we would reflect, refine and hone our shooting style
as our workflow became more structured we were able to expand our overall plan
we continue to add to our kit saving up for new cameras lights and
audio equipment whenever we could
this opened up more shoot possibilities for the remaining scenes
and allowed us to push and continue to progress our knowledge
we had aimed to finish the film in time for this years
Isle of Wight Film Festival (2014)
we reached a point where we could have rushed to finish the last few
scenes but we decided not to as we thought it would be of detriment to the rest of the film
the end is in sight and we are still on course to finish the
film this year (LOL!)
we're hoping to have it done towards the end of summer (Again LOL!)
currently we're working on the digital effects, overdubs and the last couple of
remaining scenes before we finished the soundtrack
I think the key lesson we've learned whilst making this film is the value of doing things properly
but we had to learn this the hard way to properly appreciate it
for something we never intended on taking so seriously
we certainly have pushed ourselves to breaking point several times over
but from the brink of meltdown instead of calling it a day
and walking away we've pushed through the hardship and
learned organically from our mistakes
we've had so much fun making this film, it has been
tough at times but you forget all the bad stuff and you learn to laugh about it
it's the challenge in the difficulty that have made this film so rewarding
hopefully Rudi will go some way to showcase what we're capable of and
hopefully show that anyone can make a film
even if this film falls flat
the valuable lessons that it's taught us and the experience we've had will help
push us and our work onwards and further
we live in a day and age where film making
is an accessible hobby to almost anyone you don't need qualifications
you don't need money or even experience
all you need is an idea and enough
self-motivation to see it through
so that was three years ago and unfortunately the film still hasn't been
released myself and Joe have drifted apart creatively which means that at the
moment we're both working on separate video projects and sadly this film has
been shelved
at this stage I'm not sure when or even if the film will get released
if it doesn't get released that's a real shame because we all
worked really hard on it and in a lot of ways that's why I wanted to put
this video out so we could at least partially represent just how hard
everyone worked and in some ways I wanted to test the water to see if the
film is even still relevant or if people care
so who knows what the future holds
I really really hope it does get finished one day
Joe has moved on to working with a lot of the people
that we previously worked with filming
and his channel has become the spiritual successor to our film work
so I definitely recommend checking that out, I know that they've got a lot of
content coming up which I'm really really excited to see what they do so
take a look and thanks for watching Cheers
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