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“Trapped” to film this weekend – Scottish filmmaking – Glasgow Webseries

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This weekend will see the Cops and Monsters team return to filming for our brand new episode, “Trapped”.

When a routine inspection of a werewolf safe-house is interrupted by a notorious hunter, PITS officer Astrid Bennett must work together with Jenny, who runs a werewolf pack meeting, to get out alive!

We’ll be filming in the Kirkshaws Community Centre in Coatbridge with a full crew, including several students from the SAE Institute in Glasgow. We’re also welcoming other students on board to shadow our crew to gain on-set experience for their courses.

“Nina and the Neurons” star Katrina Bryan is reprising her role as caring werewolf Jenny Connor, as is Joanna Harte, who returns as PITS officer Astrid Bennett. For those who are wondering how that’s possible after the ending of “Astrid’s Secret“, this episode takes place a few months before the events of that episode.

Katrina and Joanna will be joined by Victoria Gibson (Detective George Gently, DCI Banks) who will be playing Karis Jones, the notorious werewolf hunter!

We’ll be taking pictures and posting them on our Twitter account throughout the shoot on Sunday, and some photos from our rehearsal on Saturday. Follow us on Twitter by clicking here.

Tomorrow (Friday 31st) we’ll be launching our series finale Kickstarter to raise £3300 so that we can shoot our final episode of series 1 at the end of May so please do spread the word and pledge if you can. Thank you.

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“Fight the Bite” Visual Effects Completed!

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Visual effects animator Shervin Shirazian has completed the visual effects shots for our upcoming episode, “Fight the Bite”!

Now they will be added into the edit of the episode by Anne Nicholson, graded and coloured, while our sound designer Robert Newth works on the sound and music for the episode.

Hopefully we’ll be able to release the episode by the end of April.

We’ll be shooting episode 8, “Trapped”, on the 2nd of April and aim to release it later in the year.

On March 31st we’ll be launching our Kickstarter campaign to raise £3300 to shoot our series 1 finale, “Inhuman Nature”.

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Chris Bain Interview – Scottish Actor Interviews

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Scottish actor Chris Bain discusses his role as Jonathan Clark, Minister of Justice, in our upcoming episode, “Fight the Bite”.

The visual effects for the episode are currently being worked on and then we will be sending the episode off for music composition and sound design.

Once it’s complete we’ll set a release date and send a private link to all of our backers!

“Trapped”, the 8th episode of Volume 1, is due to be filmed on the 2nd of April and set for release sometime in Spring.

On March 31st we will be launching our Kickstarter campaign to raise £3300 to shoot and edit our series 1 finale, “Inhuman Nature”.

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The Series 1 Finale – What Happens Next

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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

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Trapped Kickstarter Campaign – We Did It!

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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:

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Casting Announcement – Victoria Gibson Joins Our Cast

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We can officially announce that British actress Victoria Gibson has joined the cast of Cops and Monsters!

Victoria will be playing the role of Karis Jones, aka The Hunter, in our 8th and upcoming episode, “Trapped”, alongside Katrina Bryan and Joanna Harte.

Victoria graduated from Northumbria University in 2011 and moved from Newcastle to London to pursue her acting career. Victoria’s professional career started with North East Theatre Company, The November Club, as she took the role of illustrious explorer Gertrude Bell in ‘Teacups, Zebras and Dancing Kaisers’ and was then invited back to appear in ‘Operation Pied Piper’ the following year, which was nominated for a Journal Culture Award. Victoria has travelled internationally with her career, and has performed alongside the likes of Stephen Tompkinson, Martin Shaw and has developed her own Production Company – Twenty Seven Live Ltd, specialising in immersive, and often site – specific work. Victoria is also an advanced drummer, singer and athlete.

Victoria has just finished filming crime thriller “Black Nest”, on set with Stephen Tompkinson (DCI Banks) and Neil Grainger (Hebburn), and now looks forward to working with the Silly Wee Films team on Cops and Monsters!

Her screen credits include: Inspector George Gently (Company Pictures), DCI Banks (Left Bank Pictures), Presenter for Andrew James Worldwide Limited, Polly in Ripper (Eighties Doubt Productions), Alice in Black Nest (Linton Pictures, ITV).

Theatre credits: Gertrude Bell in Teacups, Zebras and Dancing Kaisers (The November Club), Kitty Trevelyan in Operation Pied Piper (The November Club) The Art of Not Getting Lost (Little Cog), Snowflake the Fairy in Santa’s Naughty Elf (Customs House), Amelia in Mountain Bluebird (The Courtyard Theatre), Danielle in Last Resort (Northern Stage), Hitlers Headquarters (Twenty Seven Live) The Six O’Clock News (Northern Stage).

6 days remain on the Kickstarter campaign for “Trapped” and you can help us hit our stretch goals by buying a perk at this link!

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Cast Interview – Katrina Bryan – Nina and the Neurons Star in Cops and Monsters

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“Nina and the Neurons” star Katrina Bryan took time out during filming her debut episode, “Fight the Bite”, to discuss her character and how she got involved.

We hope to be releasing more interviews on the run up to the episode.

Our Kickstarter campaign to shoot our 8th episode, “Trapped”, has until the 7th of March to hit the goal and you can help us and find out more by clicking here.

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Casting Announcement – Joanna Harte Returns – Scotland Acting

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We are pleased to announce that Joanna Harte will be returning to the world of Cops and Monsters!

Joanna will be reprising her role as PITS agent Astrid Bennett, last seen in our Roland Moore penned Christmas special, “Astrid’s Secret”.

Astrid will play a key role in our upcoming episode, “Trapped”, which also stars Nina and the Neurons lead Katrina Bryan.

“Trapped” is a spin-off minisode that takes place before sometime before the events of Volume 1.

We have until the 7th of March to raise as much funds as possible to shoot both this episode and our final Volume 1 episode. Lots of perks are available in return for your support and you can find out more by clicking here.

Watch Joanna’s first appearance in the Cops and Monsters universe at the video below:

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Help us make our new episode – Crowdfunding Begins!

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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!