Introduction

Hi Everybody (who bothers to come to my page),

My names Seamus and I recently (1st-7th Nov) shot a short film in Hong Kong. The film is a martial arts action piece and stars Philip Ng in the lead role, Yennis Cheung as the leading lady and a fellow by the name of James Ha as the villain.

We were lucky to get both Henry Chung as our DP and Jude Poyer as our Action Director. The rest of our crew was equally great and I will go into further detail about them in coming entries.

The film was entirely self-financed. I saved the money working in a warehouse in my home country of Ireland for around 3 years. I have been a huge fan of HK action cinema since I was 12 and saw John Woo`s Hard Boiled for the first time. I saw my first proper Jackie Chan movie (Police Story) a few years later and that was it for me.

Over the next while I will be writing a kind of post mortem diary of the shoot, things that happened on the day and how those decisions affected the footage that I am currently editing.

I hope the blog will prove useful to anyone who is interested in making their own film as they can see some of the problems I faced and hopefully they can anticipate and avoid them when they do their own project.

Beyond that nice to have you here and I hope you find the future blogs of interest.

All the best,

Seamus