SAE student Alyn Smith was on set shadowing our photographer, Sonja Blietschau, while we were filming our latest minisode, “Trapped”.
You can click here to view the gallery.
We have 23 days left to raise the remaining £2228 in order to shoot our series finale, “Inhuman Nature”, which will wrap up the Lycan A202 storyline and see Maya Hedges confront Alexis and The Cult of Many Faces, finding out the truth about her parents!
To help us, visit our Kickstarter campaign by clicking here.
Our producer, Lindsay Dowell, walks you through the set of our most recently shot episode, “Trapped”, introducing you to the cast and crew!
We’ve got 25 days left to hit our goal of £3300 in order to produce our series finale, “Inhuman Nature”, with lots of perks available in return for your support. Click here to find out more.
We have officially launched the Kickstarter campaign for our series 1 finale, “Inhuman Nature”.
The episode will see the story that started in “The New Recruit” come to a head as Maya Hedges confronts The Cult of Many Faces and his personal werewolf assassin, Alexis.
We’ve got set visits, walk-on-roles, voice-over perks, signed DVDs, blu-rays, posters, signed scripts, artwork, soundtracks, mugshot perks and more! You can claim your perk now by clicking this link.
The campaign will run until April 30th where we will only be successful if we raise the £3300 we’ve set as our goal. No money will be taken from your account until this date. All perks are shipped worldwide for free.
All of our main cast are due to reprise their roles for the final episode and we’re currently casting for the role of Neil and Lucy Hedges, Maya’s parents.
Rachel Teate and Leona Kate Vaughan from Wolfblood are returning as troubled couple Grace Mackenzie and Alicia Hughes.
Episode 6, “Fight the Bite”, will be released shortly and hopefully, if we hit our crowdfunding target, we’ll shoot the final episode over 3 days at the end of May.
It’s taken us a couple of years, with a lot of planning in place, and here we are, the home stretch. We’ve started planning the production for our series 1 finale, “InHuman Nature”!
Officially our 9th episode since 2014, “InHuman Nature”, will bring to an end our first series as Maya Hedges will find the truth about her parents and why they were murdered, along with confronting The Cult of Many Faces and his killer werewolf assassin, Alexis.
The script is currently being written and the production team have made the decision to shoot the episode over the course of three days, to allow us to work in a timely manner with our cast and crew to ensure we can deliver the best episode possible. This does however mean that our budget will be a little bit higher than previous episodes, to make sure we can afford to pay our cast and crew, pay for costumes and props, special effects makeup, editing, sound design, music compositions and visual effects.
On March 31st we will be launching our Kickstarter campaign to raise at least £3300 to cover the three day shoot and all costs incurred. All the usual perks will be made available, with some extras, and we will pushing hard on social media to give us the best chance to hit the goal by April 30th otherwise we will not be able to make the episode happen.
In the meantime you can watch all of our finished episodes by clicking this link along with behind the scenes interviews and more.
Episode 7, “Fight the Bite”, will be released in April and episode 8, “Trapped”, will be released sometime after that.
If you’d like to get involved in helping us fund our final episode please e-mail us at contact@sillyweefilms.co.uk
THANK YOU EVERYBODY! We’ve hit our target and can make episode 8 happen!
We’ll be shooting “Trapped” on the 2nd of April and it’ll be released after “Fight the Bite”.
As “Trapped” is a stand-alone episode it won’t effect the overall storyline of Volume 1 but give you an insight into some of our other characters and how they deal with the world they live in.
All going well we’ll be launching our final Volume 1 Kickstarter campaign by the end of March to raise £3300 to shoot our final episode over 3 days. It’s the most we’ve ever asked for and we’re hoping that with everybody’s help we will be able to raise the funds and shoot the final episode in May this year.
Thank you again for everybody’s support!
In the meantime be sure to catch up on our first 6 episodes below and subscribe to our YouTube channel below:
We have officially launched the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise £1200 to shoot our brand new episode, “Trapped”, which will star Nina and the Neurons’ very own, Katrina Bryan.
The campaign will run until the 7th of March and we are offering set visits, signed scripts, copies of the episodes on DVD and blu-ray, Cops and Monsters key rings, signed cast photos, A3 posters, IMDb associate and executive producer perk and more!
Click HERE to to visit our Kickstarter campaign, check out our perks, pledge if you can and share the link!
Only if we hit our campaign will funds be taken from your account and only after March 7th.
Thank you!
Thank you to Gillian Loney at Glasgow Live for interviewing our showrunner Fraser Coull and helping us spread the word of our show! You can read the article by clicking here!
You can watch all of our available episodes, behind the scenes, cast interviews and more on our official YouTube channel and by clicking below.
Episode 6, “Fight the Bite”, by Laura Anderson, is currently being edited and we will let you know when the episode is going to be released!
We are in pre-production of our final Volume 1 episodes, which we hope to crowdfund early this year to shoot in the first half of 2017.
First up will be “Trapped”, a minisode that takes place immediately after “Fight the Bite”, and will see the return of Scottish actress Katrina Bryan as the kind, caring werewolf Jenny Connor.
And finally there will be episode 7, “Inhuman Nature” (title to be confirmed) where everything we’ve built up from our first episode will come to a head as Maya Hedges reaches Martin Carmichael and faces off against The Cult of Many Faces and powerful werewolf assassin Alexis.
Following this we hope to storyline a 2nd volume, bringing some new writers on board before we start the process of funding each new episode and filming them. We have no timescale for this but as we have news we’ll release it here.
We’ll be at Coventry Comic Con on October the 1st with some cast and crew. If we’re lucky Sophie Aldred, who plays Lady Audrey MacDairmid in our most recent episode, will be joining us on our panel.
And that’s our news so for January!
We are offering a small range of merchandise from the world of Cops and Monsters for you to own, and in return help us make more episodes of the show.
So far we’ve got a DVD with all our currently available episodes, two different A3 posters, t-shirts and hoodies.
We commissioned artist Michael Philp to create a front page for an as-yet-to-be-made Cops and Monsters comic strip and now you can own it for just £10! We’ll print it off as A4 and laminate it for you.
Head over to our Merchandise page and help us make more Cops and Monsters next year!
The first edit of episode 5, “Revolution in a Teacup”, is in. Notes have been sent back and then we’ll be sending it off for visual effects, music and sound! Hopefully we’ll be able to release the episode to the public early November!
Our backers for episodes 5, 6 and the Christmas episode will receive a private link before the public release so you can all see it before anybody else!
The Indiegogo campaign for our Christmas episode has 18 days left and we’re £294 away from our goal! You can find out more and get involved by clicking here.
We know people don’t like talking about Christmas too early, but like most of your favourite TV shows, we’re going into production with our yuletide special, aiming to shot it in November so we can release it online in December just in time for Santa Claus to deliver his presents to all the good little girls and boys.
Roland Moore, creator of “Land Girls” and writer of “Doctors” (amongst other things!) has scripted our Christmas special, “Astrid’s Secret”.
When PITS Commander Norris Fletcher drops in on Astrid Bennett’s house on his way to the office party, he intends to drag Astrid out of our house to avoid an awkward party on his own, little realising that Astrid is hiding a most terrible secret that can only end in disaster.
Shooting “Astrid’s Secret” will take 1 day with Simon Weir reprising his role of put-upon PITS Commander Norris Fletcher. Joining him will be Wanda Opalinska who has appeared in “Peaky Blinders”, “Silent Witness”, “Raised by Wolves”, “Man Down”, “Coronation Street” and many, many more projects. Wanda will be playing Astrid.
To make this happen we are running an Indiegogo campaign to raise £1200 which will end on the 30th of October. We’re offering signed scripts for this episode, DVDs of all of our current episodes so far, signed cast pictures, posters, and more in return for your support. You can find out more by clicking here.
Episode 5, “Revolution in a Teacup” will be picture locked in the next week and sent off for visual effects, sound design and music. We hope to release the episode by the end of October or the beginning of November. Episode 6, “Fight the Bite” will then go into the edit and we aim to release it to the public early next year, with our episode 6 backers receiving a link to watch the episode earlier.
We’ll resume filming “Volume 1” with the final part in the story being filmed in Spring 2017.
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