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Episode 4 Is Wrapped!

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Episode 4, “In Crimson”, is officially wrapped!

After 2 days of filming, support from everybody who backed our Kickstarter campaign, and an extremely hard working cast and crew, we have finished filming episode 4 of our series.

Cast and crew worked tirelessly over two days to get all of our scenes filmed so we can now send them to our editor, Anne Nicholson, who will cut together the episode. Then it will be sent to Robert Newth who will add and mix in sound effects and compose the music as our visual effects artist Gareth Knight creates the effects to build into our near-future, sci-fi world.

Unfortunately due to unforeseen family issues, Sophie Aldred was unable to film her scenes, and as such, Scottish actress Karen Bartke replaced Sophie on the day. Karen is a long-time collaborator with the team and recently starred in the BBC Scotland comedy, “Scot Squad”. Karen has also just recently won awards for her work on BBC Radio Scotland, details of which can be found here.

Sophie will now be starring in episode 5, which we hope will go into production in July, crowdfunding depending.

We will be posting updates on our progress and we hope that episode 4 will be available to watch online by the end of April/beginning of May. We will be sharing official behind the scenes stills and video between now and the release of the episode on our site, Twitter and Facebook.

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Episode 4 – Filming Has Begun!

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Yesterday we officially kicked off filming on episode 4 of Cops and Monsters!

Cast members Kenny Boyle (Martin Carmichael) and Billy Kirkwood (The Cult of Many Faces) met for the first time as they filmed their scenes together for the episode on a quiet road in Partick, Glasgow.

New makeup artists Leah and Nadia joined us to make some gruesome makeup work on one of our stars while we worked out and filmed the scenes.

Our photographer Sonja was snapping away with a mix of publicity and behind the scenes stills and we will be sharing them with you soon.

Claire our producer has been working extremely hard to work within our budget to make sure costumes, makeup, props (and lunch for the crew!) is organised for next weekend’s shoot where we will be introducing new cast member Innes Anderson (Alexis) into the world of Cops and Monsters.

We’re cutting together a little teaser from yesterday’s footage and will have it online shortly!

Until next time…

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Casting Announcement!

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We are pleased to announce that Scottish actress Mhairi Calvey has joined our cast!

As episode 4 is currently in pre-production, due to shoot on March 19th and 26th, we’re looking slightly ahead as we build our Volume 1 arc, consisting of episodes 4-7.

Mhairi will make her debut in episode 5, which will be written by James T Harding. All we can say at this stage is that Mhairi is playing Zoe, a conflicted vampire with a troubling past who finds herself embroiled with Maya Hedges (Ellen Patterson) and the PITS team.

Mhairi is best known for playing Young Murrin in the blockbuster “Braveheart”, “Any Minute Now” and “Gemini”. She also has a full slate of films this year and 2017!

Here’s what Mhairi had to say about joining our series:

“I’m delighted to be working with Fraser and his team again. It’s important to me to support other Scottish film makers and having previously worked with Fraser I know he runs a professional set and has a great team behind him. I cant wait to work with them all again.“

We hope to bring new updates soon but in the meantime you can watch ALL of our current videos below:

Behind The Scenes, Episode information, Funding

Episode 4 is funded!

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Billy and Colin Enjoying'Fun Time' at the 'Cops and Monsters' Filming in Glasgow - 19 January 2014

As of 8.12am this morning episode 4 is officially funded!

Thank you to everybody who pledged to our campaign, shared the link and generally supported our show.

Cops and Monsters is a completely independent series with no official funding from governing bodies, so we rely solely on support from the generosity of the people who are willing to donate and pledge their money to us.

Episode 4 will be shot on the 19th and 26th of March in Glasgow before being handed over to our editor Anne Nicholson who will then edit the footage together, colour it, grade it and send it off to Neil Rowe who will create the visual effects and Robert Newth will create the sound effects and score the episode.

We hope to release episode 4 by the end of April. We hope to squeeze some money from our latest campaign to shoot episode 5, however the script has not been finished so we won’t know what we need until a little later. Realistically we may need to run a post-production crowdfunding campaign to finish it, but we’ll worry about that later.

Our producer Claire Mcguire will now work on the schedule for episode 4, sorting out props, costumes, makeup, filming locations etc. We’ll post update photos/videos, and any comic con appearances we manage to arrange.

Thank you!

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Casting Announcement – Who Is Playing Alexis?

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We are pleased to announce that Scottish-born actress Innes Anderson will be playing the role of Alexis in episode 4 of Cops and Monsters.

The last time we saw Alexis she was only 16 and played by Doctor Who star Caitlin Blackwood. By the time we catch up with her in episode 4 she’ll be older, less in control of the werewolf inside, and struggling to find her humanity…

Innes has been involved with drama, dance and musical theatre groups around Inverness and the Highlands from a very young age.

Between the ages of 11 and 15 Innes was heavily involved with the Youth Music Theatre UK organisation and spent her summers travelling up and down the country from Aberdeen to Plymouth performing and collaborating on many different shows.

When she reached 16 Innes auditioned and gained a place at the Musical Theatre Course at the Dance School of Scotland for two year of intensive MT training. It was at The Dance School where she met some incredibly inspiring tutors and discovered that her true passions lay in acting.

She then gained a full scholarship to The Academy of the Live and Recorded Arts in the North of England, during which she’s performed classical roles in ‘Antony and Cleopatra’, ‘The Comedy of Errors’, ‘Candide’ and ‘As You Like It’. As well many more roles in contemporary pieces such as Louise in Road and Wendla in Spring Awakening as well as working a lot with TV, film and radio.

Since graduating from ALRA in October 2015 with a BA Hons degree in Acting she has returned to Scotland to continue her theatre and film journey on home soil.

Filming of episode 4, “In Crimson”, by Ian Smith and Fraser Coull, takes place on the 19th and 26th of March in Glasgow. 

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The New Trailer

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'Cops and Monsters' in Govanhill - 11 March 2015

With 9 days left on our crowdfunding campaign, we’ve hit our target and thankfully we can now make episode 4 of our show. We’ve set a couple of stretch goals to allow us to shoot episode 5, and one or two spin-off minisodes by Roland Moore and Hannah George.

If you’d like to support our show and help us make more episodes then please click this link to view our crowdfunding page and check out our perks.

Anne Nicholson, our episodes editor, has put together two trailers to help us promote the show at conventions around the UK and beyond. We’re pleased to share with you the first of those trailers:

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Episode 4 Crowdfunding Complete!

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Billy and Colin Enjoying'Fun Time' at the 'Cops and Monsters' Filming in Glasgow - 19 January 2014

With 13 days to go, we’ve hit our crowdfunding target to shoot episode 4 of our series!

If you’d like to support us you have until the 28th of February to grab a perk and be a part of the show. The more money we raise, the more episodes we can potentially produce.

Episode 4 is in pre-production, with auditions for the role of Alexis taking part on the 20th of February, before filming on the 19th and 26th of March.

We’ll be appearing at the Capital Sci-Fi Con on the 27th and 28th of February, with a panel at 12pm on Saturday. So come along and meet some of our cast and crew!

Once episode 4 is complete, we will be focussing on the rest of “Volume 1”, comprising of episodes 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. We also have two stand-alone episodes written by award winning writer Roland Moore and “Wolfblood” writer Hannah George.

Sophie Aldred

“Doctor Who” companion Sophie Aldred joins the cast of episode 4, playing Tina Hedges, the aunt of new PITS member Maya, played by Ellen Patterson. Sophie joins returning cast members Ellen, Kenny Boyle, Chris Bain and Billy Kirkwood.

In episode 4 we meet a grown-up Alexis, a powerful werewolf last scene in “Preparing the Weapon“, cutting loose and having some fun, when something takes over her and her dangerous werewolf abilities rise to the surface. When Maya and Martin arrive on the scene to investigate, emotions boil over between the pair, forcing Maya to storm off, leaving Martin to continue the investigation. When Maya meets her Aunt for a coffee to cool down, her entire world is flipped on it’s head.

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Casting Announcement – Scottish Actor Kenny Boyle Returns!

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Kenny Boyle

Scottish-born actor Kenny Boyle will be returning as Martin Carmichael, a hacker with a troubled past, and feelings belonging to new PITs member Maya Hedges.

We can’t give too much away, but things are about to get… complicated for Martin, and you’ll see more of that by the end of episode 4.

Since emerging into the acting world Kenny has appeared in various plays across Scotland, most recently a tour of one man show “Hero Worship” and Theatre’s “Nine Lives of Roddy Hogg”. He’s had the pleasure of appearing in the Tron Theatre as Ariel in “The Tempest “and the Traverse in Isobel Wright’s “Blind Eye” as well as appearing in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe twice.

He recently appeared award winning film “Perfect Strangers” which was warmly received by festivals around the world.

He is keen to see where his character will go and what he shall become as he journeys through the world if Cops and Monsters.