Nick & The Green Room

A big thank you to Nick for cooking us great food on block one. He did it under difficult conditions and did so very graciously.  The food was wonderful too.

Also a big thank you to Black Door, who let us use their space. Much appreciated X

First Block Shot!

The first block was shot on 12th, 13th and 14th of September. Actors included Ronald Pickup, Virginia Denham, Bec Boy and Crispin Manson.

We Got The Look :)

We are very privileged to have Abbie & Dot working on the look of our actors.  Dot brings her imagination to the wardrobe and Abbie does a great job transforming actors into characters!!

By the way, they dont usually look this stressed, but I just love this photo!!!!

Home Sweet Home.... The Green Room

Thanks to Sam and his boyfriend for lending us their flat for our Green Room. We appreciate it enormously.

Youre space is great and it adds heart to the film!

Crew Announcement

We have been fortunte to have some of the best crew in the industry joining us for the production of the film. Welcome onboard and thank you for everything

Gaffer: Simon Battensby
Focus Pullers: Marek Polaszewski, Scott Norris

Sound Recordist, Lorenzo Grippo

Grip: Riccardo Cellotini

Crispin Manson Joins

We are delighted to welcome Crispin Manson to the acting cast.  He plays Tom Barleybone.

Director of Photography - John Hoare

We are very lucky that Mr John Hoare was agreed to be our DOP.

Fantastic :)

 John Hoare, Director of Photography

John has been a DoP for 20 years, shooting drama, commercials and branding films on celluloid and digital. Recent projects include the short film Disintegration starring Miranda Nolan and Nicola Stuart-Hill. He shot The Other Man for director D.R. Hood, winner of Best British Short Film Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Gemma Vine Rolls in...

Welcome to Bec Boey who plays Gemma Vine.

You are made for this part.

Cast Announcement

An initial cast list has has been announced on The Schadenfreude website (www.schadenfreudethemovie.com). Below is a summary of who we have:

Steve Sweeney Steve Sweeney is an actor, best known for "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998), "Slullduggery"" (1989), and "Nil by Mouth"

Ronald Pickup Ronald Pickup is an actor, known for "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" (2010), "The Mission" (1986) and "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" (2011). He was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role of 1997 for his performance in "Amy's View".

Virginia Denham Virginia's acting career covers nearly twenty years. During that time she has appeared on almost every major TV series on UK television. Just some of them include "Agatha Christie's Poirot", "Casualty", "The Bill", "Bugs", "London's Burning" and "Eastenders".

Rachael Pickup Rachel is an actress known for her work in theatre in both London and New York. She has just finished shooting the feature film Chronic in LA with Tim Roth.

Moya Brady Moya has a tremendous body of work. Her credits include working for Mike Leigh, Terry Gilliam and Woody Allen. After that, what else is there to say?.

Rupert Holiday Evans Rupert Holliday-Evans is an actor, known for "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (1988), "From Hell" (2001) and "Driving Lessons" (2006)..

Cream Cream (Kai Taylor) is an actor and Multi-Award Winning Rap Artist, Famous for his Hit Single "Daddy Kool", and for his role as The Rapper in the Hit BBC3 reality show/comedy series, Boom Town (2013)..

Howard Marks Howard Marks is a Welsh author who achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler. At his peak he was supposedly smuggling consignments as large as 30 tons. He was convicted but released in April 1995 after serving seven years. Though he had up to 43 different aliases, he became known as Mr Nice, and a film was made about him starring Rhys Ifans.

Set Building For The First Block

Simon and Steve at Work

Natalie Ashby becomes our 1st AD

Welcome Nat.  Great to have you as part of the team, although in all honesty you have been for ages!!

Schadenfreude Welcomes Mutant Robot

Schadenfreude has invited Mutant Robot, headed by Dominic Devine to join the team as a Producer.Dominic's skills and experience add a dimension to the film, which cannot be underestimated.

http://www.mutant-robot.com

More Artwork in Detail

Simon brings his vision alive with some more beautiful artwork

Art Work

The Artwork has been completed by Simon Pickup, in order to set the tone for the characters.  Here is a sneak preview of the ensemble cast.

Early Artwork

Simon's early genius from his little black book

Script Synopsis

Schadenfreude is a German word meaning 'to take pleasure from other people's misfortunes'. The film opens with a typical weekend breakfast chatr show called 'Sally on Sunday'. She is interviewing an Austrian Professor who explains the dark nature of the five forms of Schadenfreude, which are then played out in detail in the subsequent five acts.

The film itself is set in New Street Junction, a ficticious and fantastical place bizarrely boasting the most sign-posts anywhere in Britain - and ridiculed by a TV Show called 'The Scoop'.

Jeremy O'Reilly - the maliciuos, self important TV presenter of the show - has returned to further demolish the reputation of the dischevelled bunch of locals, as part of his 'Clean up Britain' crusade.  However, when he winds up in their local pub, an unexpected turn ensues as the local's play a mischievous prank, which unfortunately goes horribly wrong - and culminates in the murder of the beautiful Paige Boston, a local actresss.

How could this happen in front of the world's press? What exactly happened? Who did what? A media frenzy kicks off as journalists hunt for answers, the media gossip and accusations fly of corruption and deceipt. Welcome to a week in modern media and the question "Who killed Paige Boston?"

Script Completion

Steve and Simon at the very start of the nights celebrations.

Steve & Mikey (one diamond geyser),
who is set to play the Vendor.

We are happy to announce the completion of the Script for Schadenfreude. After many years of hard work by Simon and Steve and a meagre few months by the rest of us, we are happy to say that the ship is finally ready to sail.

Working on the script

Printing out the first draft of the script ready to get it out to actors and investors alike

Script Polishing

Thinking, printing and debating the script for the final polish.
Several weeks of fish cakes and smiles. Good times

Imagery for the script

Some initial thoughts of artwork...... check Steve out in the bottom right of the bottom paper!