A Cypriot Break

Elworthy Episode 1, Part 2 is now almost complete. I have only one more scene to shoot in order to finish it (which simply involves a UNIT soldier sat at a Radar screen).

I am off to Cyprus this week for my holiday. I had hoped to have Part 2 online before I went, but unfortunately it will now have to wait until my return.

As soon as I am back in the UK I will get this remaining scene shot ASAP, and get Part 2 online for all to see! Of course, I still need to cast the UNIT soldier, so any volunteers would be greatly appreciated!!

I leave you with this promotional photo of Captain Elworthy...

Film Footage

Here are some screenshots from the footage I shot yesterday, which I have now edited.

These are from a scene where Elworthy is walking to his meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Beckett...




And these are from a scene after his meeting, where he is pondering his mission.

Film Footage

Here is a still from footage that I shot last time I was in Lichfield. I have now added the alien Tennis Balls, which are surrounding their victim.

Successful Shoot

Did a little filming yesterday afternoon. Shot a short scene of Elworthy in the grounds of his HQ. The scene is from Episode 1, and will be merged with some shots of Cardiff Castle that I got on my lunch break from work earlier this week (I am using Cardiff Castle to double as Elworthy's HQ - Sandford Castle).

Once again, I roped a reluctant Vicki in to help! This time she portrays a passing soldier. No wig was needed this time as I only shot her from behind. I shall post edited screencaps once they are done.

Making Headlines

In Episode 1, Professor Richards looks at the newspaper and complains that there is news about Wimbledon everywhere! I shot that scene over Christmas, except I didn't get a shot of the newspaper - so yesterday I put a front page together...

I used the name The Examiner after I saw a newspaper graphic from the BBC Doctor Who website. I got the idea of putting a box about Wimbledon above the main headline after a recent copy of The Metro did exactly the same thing. And since Episode 1 is set a year agao, I decided to make the main headline about the wet weather we had.

Below is a rough sketch of the newspaper page that I did in work.



I then realised that I would need a photo of a Tennis Player, so I took a picture of myself holding a Tennis Racket.



I then drew a headband on, and made my hair slightly longer in Photo Paint. It didn’t matter that the hair colour doesn’t match, because I figured it wouldn’t be noticeable on screen. I then put together the page using Coral Draw. The picture of the Unicorn and the people with umbrellas were just random stock photos from the Internet. Finally, I didn’t want to write a report on the soggy summer, so having seen ‘Turn Left’ recently, I just stuck a paragraph of Bad Wolf!

The finished page…



And here is a screenshot of the paper as it appears in the episode…

Film Footage

I have now edited the footage that I shot on Sunday. Below are some screenshots from the scene, which involves Elworthy enjoying the company of a young lady, before being pulled away to duty.

Obviously, in true Bond fashion, there is more than just chess on Elworthy's mind - but you'll have to wait until the scene is on YouTube to see how it pans out for him!

Coincidence?

I was looking through the screenplays for the later episodes of The David Elworthy Series today. As I read through Episode 6, I saw something that made me smile.

Episode 6, which is called ‘The man With The Golden Llama’, is about a lost Incan city that turns out to have extraterrestrial connections. Captain Elworthy, Professor Richards, and a female archaeologist they have met, travel to South America to uncover the secrets of the lost city (bear in mind that I wrote this story over a year and a half ago – before the new Indiana Jones film was released, with a similar storyline!)!

What I smiled at, though, was exactly where in South America Elworthy travelled to – Peru! The reason I smiled, for those of you who don’t remember, was because in the Doctor Who Sontaran two-parter that was on a few weeks ago, Colonel Mace told the Doctor that Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart was stranded in Peru!!!

Now, my story is set a year before the Sontaran story, but it is fun to hypothesise that perhaps Sir Alistair was in Peru because of Elworthy’s lost city. Perhaps there to oversee a clean-up operation, or to give his expert opinion on various alien artefacts that had come to light! Why he would be stranded, though, is beyond me - maybe Elworthy forgot to deactivate an alien trap!!