Phone Box Gun Archives

The Great Acting Blog: “Why The Panic Set In, by Alfie Black”

02.07.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 20 Comments

Alfie Black is a London based actor. Throughout my career I have never really suffered any panic attacks whilst performing. That was of course until I filmed the pivotal interior scene from Phone Box Gun. Even though I originally met the writer/di...

The Great Acting Blog: “Phone Box Gun – Full Trailer Now Up”

27.06.2012 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

This blog has become a real fulcrum for me, and I’m very grateful to those who take an interest in it, support it, and offer feedback. As it is, I’m delighted to share with you the full trailer for our new film, Phone Box Gun....

The Great Acting Blog: “Only Worry About Action”

16.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Check out this quick teaser for our new short, Phone Box Gun. My action in the scene above, was to get my scene partner to agree with me (within the fiction of script, this amounted to Bob getting Vincent to let him buy him a...

The Great Acting Blog: “Some Thoughts On Self-Producing”

09.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

I'm often an advocate on this blog, of actors being their own bosses, creating their own productions, the reasons for doing so are too numerous to mention here, but in the modern era I would say it's essential rather than an option. Having recentl...

The Great Acting Blog: “Stills From Phone Box Gun”

06.05.2012 , Uncategorized , 1 Comment

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The Great Acting Blog: “The Independent Actor”

28.03.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 18 Comments

Donald Wolfitt made a name for himself at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1936 as Hamlet, and he tried to persuade the management to bankroll him on a tour of the provinces. They declined the invitation, so he withdrew his savings and started ...

The Great Acting Blog: “An Online Actors’ Lab”

25.01.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 22 Comments

This week, I was due to shoot Phone Box Gun, but had to move that back to next month as one of my actors became unavailable. However, I didn't want to waste the time this freed up, and so decided to go and shoot an...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Audition Lowdown”

18.01.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 23 Comments

Check out a clip from the film, above. For those unfamiliar with the film, The Audition is about an actor, Tony Wallis, who is being seen for a part in a play. He breaks the ice with his interviewer then starts to speak the lines...

The Great Acting Blog: “Flipping Between Mindsets”

21.12.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Before I head back to Ireland to complete filming on Rouzbeh Rashidi's HE (which is going to be an utterly sublime feature, by the way), I intend to squeeze in a quickie short film, called Phone Box Gun. It'll be a Kaurismakian film noir, about...

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