Down the pub was one of the most fun videos we have ever done. Even though it was all about the acting and we only used one static camera shot for over an hour I felt it still deserved to go in our portfolio as it is one of our best pieces. It is basically a 50 min video in which we improvised several characters and spent an evening down the pub drinking. The results were amusing to say the least.

Staring: Charles Reynolds as: Frank the old man, a barman, a dodgy geezer, a bouncer
James Abbott as: barman number two, a very camp homosexual, an old man, and a drug dealer.

Out line: 
Filmed in Charles bedroom which we cleared and converted into a pub with a bar in one corner and a few chair the stereo was hidden away and provided background noise and music. The action took the form off usually a bar man and another character. The entire 50 min was improvised on the spot, We started with a bar man and then the other one would enter in a character they had just made up, when one character got boring they would make there excuses in role and leave the pub, get changed outside and invent a new character on the spot, meanwhile the other person was filling in by talking to a person the camera couldn’t see (they obviously weren’t actually there) The new character would enter and the action would continue. The entirely improvised scene finished 50min later when Charles character accidentally knocked over the bar while having a violent reaction to the cocaine he had tried from the drug dealer. After this we lost it. It reached the cock-ups tape witch was amazing. The whole process was helped along by the fact that all the alcohol consumed in the set pub was real and the proceedings got better and better as we got more and more intoxicated.