ROY & RALPH REPOST

Ungraded rough cut of a scene featuring RALPH (Colin Salmon) and ROY (Mark Rathbone).

DELETED SCENES 3 - MR JOHNSON

No need to further discuss this after this post, but still, a very sad day cutting these scenes from the film.

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Nitty Gritty time

If you're wondering where we've been, the edit suite repairs took a bit longer than we thought, and well, we spent the weekend blowing off steam.

As some of you know, I have a business to run, and that plus this film is stretching things a bit. Poor Jeremy is tying himself in knots trying to horseshoe some of the older scenes back in to the film, and I'm just desperate to get all the dialogue scenes sharpened so we have a decent rough cut by the end of this week. 

Both of us are strung out from rearranging the sequencing of the film. It never ceases to amaze me how flexible a story is, right up until the final piece of audio post. One scene for example was cut completely, then became a flashback, moved forward in the day but now in real-time, and its central theme completely changed twice, all since Friday. 

Its also been a time of concentrating on the pacing of the film. We watched Peter Berg's 'The Kingdom' the other day, as it uses a lot of the frenetic, multi-camera style NIL has. In fact, almost EXACTLY the same style as NIL has. While its a pretty good film, it never lets you breathe, so hopefully we've got the right blend of fast, handheld cross-the-line energy, with enough moments of reflection and stillness. And that those moments happen at the right time in the story. 

The picture above is from the Paul McGann shoot that will never make the picture. In this ending the gorgeous Callas (Meredith Ostrom) comes in to save Roy (Mark Rathbone). In the version we have now, Roy meets a rather different fate. 

- MT

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Video 1

Ungraded rough cut of a scene featuring Colin Salmon and Mark Rathbone.

Enjoy. 

Ah, the joys of finding footage.....

Colin Salmon as 'Ralph', Mark Rathbone as 'Roy'

One of the real pleasures of cutting a film so removed from shooting it is that you get a real kick out of seeing the footage again. And finding scenes we had completely forgotten shooting!

So far we've found a sexy massage scene with 'Callas' we'd completely forgotten about, and Paul McGann's incredible work as Mr Johnson, a character that was eventually cut (much more on this, and Paul, later). His character was replaced by Colin Salmon's 'Ralph' above.