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"Sacrifice"
The Security Guard stands over the dying
boy who asks him "what's your name?",
Simons eyes glaze over as he
remembers his first tour in Northern Ireland during the early 80's....
The Patrol walks past a IRA
muriel and down an terraced street, Young Simon at the rear,
as the patrol passes by a young women
brushing the pavement, she stops and asks Simon "What's your name?"
Hearing
this the Patrol leader shouts to Simon as a shot rings out...
We
received out of the
blue an email from Binary Films who were looking for help and advice for a short
film that they were making to be shown on the
Film festival circuit. With emails exchanged we volunteered to help
them out. Suddenly, and with quite short notice
myself and Darren found our selves
on an old terraced street in
Manchester on a Cold, Wet and windy day.
We
had agreed to provide the uniforms and weapons but this
also turned into bodies to fill the
uniforms as well. As the emails
came thick and fast and the day approached, the film company said that they
would like to use two of our members in the film, to which one was to portrait
the Patrol leader. "Okay" was the reply and with
that our first encounter with the film industry was but hours away.
6am found us loading the car and on the road
heading towards Manchester, arriving just after 7am to be greeted
by the film crew
and Bacon butties with hot cups of tea. They had found our
weak spot. Within half an hour we had met the two
young actors who we kitted out and quickly familiarized
with the weapons and how to patrol.
With the first scenes being filmed we had a few
moments alone to practice being a squad. We were t o learn as the day went
on
that Military tactics and drill was not to be film friendly and that give and
take was the order of the day. |