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London & Brighton Singer/Songwriter, Writer, Director and occasional actor...whatever really and who the hell cares!

Thursday 9 June 2011

Where Have You Been?

For quite some time I've been going on and on about writing songs and never actually getting round to recording them and sharing etc.

The time has finally come...I would cue a little drum roll but I don't play drums very well, which is why I stick to just playing guitar!..so it is my great pleasure to present my first recording of a track entitled, "Where Have You Been?".

Where Have You Been? by Lewis Mckale

I would like to give a massive shout out to Mr Pat Blann for helping me record all this and putting up with me for countless hours! I'm currently teaching myself harmonica at the moment so I let Pat do the harmonica work on the recording which sounded great!

Keep a look out for Pat's promotion company too
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Little-Bear-Promotions

More news coming soon, it's been busy at the Mckale camp!

Monday 6 June 2011

Lights, Camera, Ransom! at the Arc Network screening and a trailer!

It's been over a week since LCR got screened and got watched for the first time, that's how useless I have become these days unfortunatley. So the time has come to shed some light (ooh see what I did there?) on Lights, Camera, Ransom!

For some time..I have been meaning to one day write my own movie reviews..which may very well happen but for now, you can be judge of my reviewing skills! I will review a short film that I co-wrote and star in which, to be honest, could be hard to review but I will take all this into much consideration and review LCR to the highest standard.

Before the film started, as someone who was involved with this project, we shot this film for quite some time. It never was a slow process, it was an interesting process in a way that the rehearsals was like writing our own script. After working solidly on our characters and dialogue, I had a very general idea in my head of what this project was going to look like on screen.
As soon the film started, when the title appeared, it suddenly became very beyond my expectations. When I say this, I mean in a positive way. I am in no way trying to say that I expected less, but the structure of the scenes was layed out differently and it worked so much better than orignally planned. If anything, it brought out the comedy and with having it's very choppy editing, made it more comical and I found myself laughing so much, even though after retaking scenes over and over, watching it for the very first time was so refreshing.

Whilst watching this movie, I got this sense of a mixture of both Clerks and Be Kind Rewind, the most interesting character in this whole project was Lenny (Dick Douglass), at the beginning of the film, he is introduced as this big time gangster..but by the end of the film he then comes across as a father figure...again I can't reveal too much but he is certainly a very interesting character in this movie.

I didn't tell anyone this, but at the end I felt a little bit emotional. It took me a while to figure out why this was and then it dawned on me, I realised that this is a movie about making a movie and this is a subject that I can relate to and when you get to the end product, it's a very rewarding and special moment...I won't spoil the ending for any of you as the end production is just incredible!

Hope you enjoyed my review...if you did then I may write more like these in the future.

I would just to thank everyone involved with this project, Tom Clear, Natalie Nelson, Dick Douglass, Kirsty Jeffery, James Lane, Dan Mitchell, Lisa Thorne, James Lee Hunt, Jenna Cole, Martin Sorenson and David King and of course Rhys Bendix-Lewis for his hard work and for being such a great guy to work with. It really pays of, working for someone as great as Rhys who really looks out for his crew and actors. On behalf or Rhys and the rest of the cast and crew, and sorry to anyone who's name I haven't put down, I honestly cannot dream of a nicer bunch of people to work with who all worked so hard. This is certainly a movie that is worth watching for all the hard work put in by everyone, from the crew to the make up artist to the extras..eveyone involved has put so much effort in and now you can see the trailer..I will post more info on when LCR will be available to go and see but here is the trailer for now. Enjoy!


Lights, Camera, Ransom! Trailer from Rhys Bendix-Lewis on Vimeo.

Other news yet to come. Stay tuned...