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Title: BUZZ

Reference number: 7988

Date: 1993

Director: d. Kenneth Simpson

Sponsor: The First Reels Project & The Scottish Film Council [Scottish Television]

Producer: Andrew Secchi

Production company: Evolution Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 13.15 mins

Description: Short and surreal comedy of a man attempting to catch a common house fly. At the beginning the man is just mildly irritated by the fly, which was preventing him from eating his dinner. As the film continues he becomes more and more extreme in trying to catch the fly and the fly becomes more ingenious in escape. It ends with a TOM AND JERRY style situation.

See also ref. 8092 for raw interview footage with director Kenneth Simpson, about this film. Notes:- Film was shot on silent 16mm Black and White Bolex camera. Entire soundtrack recorded in post production. Small camera could be placed anywhere he wanted. Effects were not that expensive - used traditional techniques such as slo-mo; fast-mo; animation; printing back to front.

First Reels - a joint short film initiative from Scottish Screen (and its predecessor body the Scottish Film Council) and Scottish Television. First Reels was launched during 1991 by Scottish Film Council in response to a perceived need for small grants to help young and first time film-makers to make or complete their first film or video project. Scottish Television came in as co-sponsor at an early stage and as well as contributing to half the funds they have given the scheme a tremendous public relations boost by running three half hour documentaries showing excerpts from the First Reels. Applicants were invited to submit projects in any format and on any subject they chose. All entries were considered by a jury and thirty five projects were given grants varying from £50 to £2000. On show at the GFT are a representative selection of the best of the films and videos supported by the scheme. [Editorial from Scottish Film Council held in paper archives]

Credits: w. and d. Kenneth Simpson
p. Andrew Secchi

starring Steve McNicoll

lighting camera Andrew Secchi
camera ass. and grip Jez Curnow
p. design and models Dave Arrowsmith
art d. Dan Sellars
ass. d. Morag McKinnon
stills Alan Braidwood
titles designed by Jim Callaghan
ed. David Cairns
sd. Kiyo Murakami, Simon Fraser
m. composed by Haftor Medboe
double bass Lucy Shaw

Supported by The First Reels Project & The Scottish Film Council

Special thanks to Jack Orr, Donald Holwill, Len Brown, Anita-Jane Govan, Edward O'Donnelly, Pat Lovett Agency, Lothian Regional Council, Edinburgh College of Art, Metrocolor (London Ltd.), Edinburgh Film Workshop Trust

© Evolution 1993