Many thanks Arron for your lovely review of our film and for posting a link to it! Much appreciated. We made it to demonstrate what can be achieved on a zero budget (bar having access to film or video equipment of course). We chose this particular story as it's set in France, where we live. It's a bit rough in places, due to the guerilla nature of the production; we used a church in Provence that was open to the public, so anyone could suddenly appear whilst shooting a scene... like a ghost and ruin everything! In parts of the film it was a solo performance; just me; acting; doing the camera, lights and sound. We did try to adhere to the M.R.James story as closely as possible as many other adaptations of his ghost stories stray quite far away from the originals which seems rather odd, knowing how brilliantly well written and compelling they are. My personal favourite from the aforementioned, is "The Stalls of Barchester" which does stay on track and is very spooky. Our only "crime", as it were, was to add some visual effects which are not mentioned in this story of the eager and very unwise Cambridge academic! The entire shoot was made on location in the south of France with some additional rostrum shots of St.Bertrand which we visited many years before making the film; had we shot the film there it would have cost an arm and a leg, not least for gaining official access to the cathedral. However, having seen the massive cathedral in the tiny village perché of St.Bertrand de Comminges, you can fully appreciate why it inspired this ghost story (I can highly recommend a visit there).
Thank you for watching. Given what I imagine was a shoestring budget, you produced a great adaptation. Would you be interested in doing an interview about the film and your interest in M. R. James' ghost stories in general?
Many thanks Arron for your lovely review of our film and for posting a link to it! Much appreciated. We made it to demonstrate what can be achieved on a zero budget (bar having access to film or video equipment of course). We chose this particular story as it's set in France, where we live. It's a bit rough in places, due to the guerilla nature of the production; we used a church in Provence that was open to the public, so anyone could suddenly appear whilst shooting a scene... like a ghost and ruin everything! In parts of the film it was a solo performance; just me; acting; doing the camera, lights and sound. We did try to adhere to the M.R.James story as closely as possible as many other adaptations of his ghost stories stray quite far away from the originals which seems rather odd, knowing how brilliantly well written and compelling they are. My personal favourite from the aforementioned, is "The Stalls of Barchester" which does stay on track and is very spooky. Our only "crime", as it were, was to add some visual effects which are not mentioned in this story of the eager and very unwise Cambridge academic! The entire shoot was made on location in the south of France with some additional rostrum shots of St.Bertrand which we visited many years before making the film; had we shot the film there it would have cost an arm and a leg, not least for gaining official access to the cathedral. However, having seen the massive cathedral in the tiny village perché of St.Bertrand de Comminges, you can fully appreciate why it inspired this ghost story (I can highly recommend a visit there).
Thank you for watching. Given what I imagine was a shoestring budget, you produced a great adaptation. Would you be interested in doing an interview about the film and your interest in M. R. James' ghost stories in general?