Dead Man Drinking is a micro-budget film shot in Sydney, Australia - we estimate about a grand was spent on food, booze, light-bulbs and digital tapes to shoot on. Check back soon for some more information about our shooting methods. But for the moment, check out the page about it for our first film.

In the interrim, please enjoy a serving of light trivia.

• No prop booze was used in the making of this film. In fact, the crap being voluntarily poured into Allan's gullet in the bathroom scene is Frigate rum. The Director was also imbibing this unique cleaning product while working behind the camera. As a result of this, we tend to look back on this shoot in general as more "choreographed drinking" rather than actual filmmaking.
• The screenplay was written over a few days in a Melbourne hotel room with a few bottles of red.
• The editing and post-production process took just over 12 months.
• The project was entirely shot on the same small Sony HDV Handycam that we shot Insecurity on, using a single Rode NTG-1 boom pole and two 200W workmans lights. However, one of these blew a short way into production and we had to make do with one.
• The project was edited on Final Cut Pro 6. The raw footage came to about 18 hours in total.
• The part of Karl was originally written for Jen Greiss, and was named Karla. However, at short notice someone lined up to play Leanna pulled out, and the script was quickly gone over with a fine-toothed sledge-hammer to make the parts work with the new cast.
• If you look carefully during the scene where Stacy storms out of the lounge room in a huff, just to the left of her thighs are the leads going from the boom to the sound recordist's corner. Didn't notice it? Too busy staring at Stacy? That's okay. We were counting on it.
• The large scene in the kitchen remains surprisingly faithful to the scene as written in the screenplay, which is quite an accomplishment as it was shot very late one night with four drunk actors and a crew so tired and boozed up that at one point the director and the caterer started engaging in a recreation of a Monkey Island insult swordfight. Also? The scene was done in a single master shot. No second take was done.