Yesterday, I met up with Rob Wicking and I passed all the behind the scenes footage for Blood + Roses. I had asked him if he could edit ‘The Making of Blood  + Roses’ for me a couple of weeks ago, but it was only until today I could get the footage to him. Rob is busy getting ready to shoot his film for this year's Straight 8. Thankfully he has been able to fit me in.

I had the footage for the making of sitting on my computer for a while now. When I imported the footage of the film onto the computer, I also imported the behind the scenes footage too. I have watched it several times now, but I just hadn’t the time to edit it. I have just been busy focusing on getting the film finished. Also I would cringe at the footage of myself. I was trying to be witty in front of the camera and didn’t work out too well. That’s what I think anyway. So every time I would sit down to edit the making of, I would put it off because I didn’t want to cringe. I decided that I needed someone else to edit it. I thought of Rob.

Rob had done such a good job on 'Cut The Blue Wire: The Making of Code Grey' that I asked him if would be interested in editing ‘The Making of Blood + Roses’. Thankfully Rob agreed, so I put together all the footage that Lee Akehurst had shot and clips from the film, and put them all together on an external hard drive.

I met Rob at The George pub on Wardour Street at 5pm, with the hard drive. We discussed the making of. I went through a few things with Rob that I wanted with the making of. The main thing that I told Rob about was that I wanted the running time to be no longer than 10 minutes. With all the footage that Lee had shot, 10 minutes is all we are going to get out of that. Anything longer than that and we will need a new set of interviews with the cast and crew to be done. Maybe something to organise when the film is finished and I am getting ready to do the DVD. This making of is going to be like an EPK (Electronic Press Kit), so I can get it out there on the internet. The plan is to get it on the official website and Facebook, Myspace and YouTube as soon as it is finished.

So Rob now has the footage at home and will start working on it when he has finished shooting his Straight 8 film. I asked Rob to aim to have it finished by the end of April.