The Monster Under The Bed

 

 

 

Directed By..........................David Bloomer

Written By.....David Bloomer & Lewis Andrews-Oakes

Music By.......................Lewis Andrews-Oakes

Edited By............................David Bloomer

Starring.......................Lewis Andrews-Oakes

 

 

Pre-Production

After the tradagy of the failure of "New Film," I suddenly wanted to make a film about a monster being under someones bed.

Lewis and I had talked together before hand that Lewis wanted to write and also create the music for future films, rather than be involved in any real filming or acting. We both agreed that it would be good way of going about it, even though Lewis was both invovled in filming and also in acting for "The Monster Under The Bed." (But that was generally because it would much easier just to have Lewis act.)

We both wrote "The New Film" and "Monster Under The Bed" together. Even though "The Monster Under The Bed" was written to be simply a three minute film, but the film ended up being eleven minutes.

 

 

Production

After the primary camera that was used to film The Human Hunter, we decided to use Lewis's smaller SD Card camera; which didn't have any optical zoom. In order to film the bleeding donut, we bought a donut from a shop and put a hoze in the back of it, attached the other end of the hose to a large syringe of fake blood, then just pumped the blood (keeping the hoze out of the shot.)

 

 

Post-Production

When it came to editing footage from Lewis's camera, it turned out that those film files where quite incompatable with my computer. This caused a lot of problems during editing, mainly when the editing software would crash without warning at certain points. To fix this problem, it was required to convert all the filmed files to a different format. Everytime the software crashed, we would still have the footage that was converted before it crashed. Meaning you could just pick where you left off.