It's been a while!

Holy crap! It has been so many months since I last made an entry in the G6 journal! So you may be asking what exactly has been filling my time so excessively. Well, let's begin our journey from where I last left you.

So we were talking about making that short web series about weird stuff in Scotland. We still haven't got round to that because of a variety of issues which mainly are equipment shortages and the fact our driver sold his car. The good news is that project is still in the pipeline. We are still going to do it.

What's next in the list? We made Michael's documentary 'The Sound of Scent'. This film is quite possibly the best film we have made to date. It was shot in the stunning vividness of my DSLR along with a JVC HD camera. Watch the film on our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/groupsixproductions). The film focuses on the possibility of making music using plant DNA with the future hope of doing the same with human DNA. We worked with a man called Stuart Mitchell who is at the forefront of this work and the best thing was he lives in Edinburgh. There are some things that given another chance at we would do differently but in all honesty we got a beautiful couple of days to get the shoot done and almost everything went perfectly. The film was also screened at the Edinburgh Filmhouse, which obviously felt amazing. There is definitely no greater feeling than putting in a whole load of work to produce something that we are proud of and then showing it off to people on a massive screen.

Speaking of that Filmhouse showing we also had a couple of other films that were being screened. One being a short documentary called 'Matters of the Heart'. The film is about falling in love, if you believe in love or not and also any losses in love such as a partner passing away or cheating. MotH has got a very defined style in that there is no V/O it is just people telling their story to the camera, letting you into a very private part of their life, sometimes it is funny, other times it was upsetting. The film was written and directed by Del Campbell. Unfortunately there is currently no copy available online so your just going to have to take my word that it was a really nicely shot film especially the outdoor voxpops in Princes Street Gardens.

I helped on another friends film which unfortunately is completely plagiarised from an existing internet series, but nonetheless it was still fun to help out on. I even play a small role. The film is called 'At Home With Dr Devious'. It is basically a drama but made to look like a documentary. It follows a young mad scientist and his pursuit of the love of his life. Here is a link to the film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuMzyWSUUTE&feature=g-user-u.

Lastly we worked on a short drama called 'Locked Out'. Fin is a sixth year high school student who has the house to himself for the weekend, and has invited his girlfriend round for a romantic evening. However he returns home to find that the worst has happened... He's locked out. This drama was written, filmed and edited in only a matter of days. We had surprisingly more fun filming this than we thought we would as well which is always a good thing. To see the film click on the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es3gR6Lwkts&list=UUsO-8WqOW5oqn5wQwBDtxVg&index=1&feature=plcp

That pretty much covers what we've been doing for the past wee while. We are working on a few short projects such as: a couple of music videos, a promo video for an open mic night and entering a few competitions. We are also trying to find a venue to run our own open mic night. Anyway cheers!

Oliver Watson