Looking at the footage..cinematographer Alan Trow

So a quick personal blog on the Industry my Arse adventure. We interviewed Alan Trow at his office on the Welsh borders , and he proved to be a great guy, deserving of his good reputation.

Alan shot John Eyres’ movies from the start, so of course it was all downhill after Good Night God Bless (well maybe not). His first movie credit was with Richard Driscoll on The Comic (1985) , a film I first encountered back in the 80s on the ABC label of 77 Merthyr Road, Cardiff , which is where the empire was located.

Anyway, I digress. Sometimes I wonder if there will be more from Mr Driscoll on our film, time will tell.

So, the comic is actually bollocks but shot pretty well considering. And Alan gave John’s films a glossy big movie look fitting with the video-store-with-ambition feel of Project Shadowchaser and Monolith.

For now the beginnings of the editing process on Alan involves roughly selecting clips and cutting them down, splitting up into lots of short clips so that they can be moved around and manipulated. And there’s no quick way to do this kind of thing , so it will probably be a little but often over the next few weeks. John is working separately on another interview  - so it’s a start folks !

Right, trying to get some bits showing Alan’s work in here now …

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