"Lenny's Luck"

I have completed my latest short Film "Lenny's Luck". It's inspired very loosely by a story about the great jazz guitarist and recording technology pioneer Les Paul, though I've jazzed up the "facts" so, you should consider all elements of the story as purely fuctional, and any similarities purely coincidental.

The film was shot in 1080i HDV on a Sony Z1E. We used Cineframe 25 mode and recorded the sound on camera. I directed and recorded sound. Karen Savage did lighting and camera, Aysegul Epengin produced and was responsible for art direction.

Anthony Tivey served double duty as Gaffer, and then needed to be drafted in to play "Lenny" when our lead actor failed to turn up. He did a fine job, despite the fact that he never saw the script, and about the only meaningful direction I gave him was "can you do an American accent?" In fact all the cast we great and I'm thoroughly grateful to them all.

The film was largely shot in one day in a Studio in Chichester University with a few pick ups filmed at Portsmouth University a week or so later. Post production was done on iMovie and in Garageband, using the great new feature of being able to play music while watching the video. Titles were done in Gimp.

The film was premiered at Portsmouth University's Wiltshire Studio 1 on the 29 October, and was projected in High Definition. The video will be posted online in the new year. In the mean time here is a link to a gallery of behind the scenes stills.