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Child’s Play – Chucky

| Quentin Budworth

When Louise Harman said she wanted to be Chucky I thought long and hard about  an iconic Hull location. Where would Chucky live in Hullywood? A tricky question but after a few pints it came to me, of course Dinsdales Famous Joke ,Trick & Fancydress Shop in the Hepworth Arcade. The natural home of mischief, tricks, magic and on this occasion killer dolls with attitude.

We tried a few shots but they just didn’t look right. So I suggested that Louise should take her shoes off and kneel on them … like a sinister Toulouse Lautrec. Angela Dinsdale-Jackson who is a member of Hull’s legendary Dinsdale family watched with great amusement at our epic fails.

I then got Louise to channel her inner Chucky, which was quite difficult as  fits of giggles had made earlier attempts to be Chucky less than convincing. We nailed this shot just as the local Police Lady strolled up to watch the fun. I said it’s not a real knife and she looked at me, smiled and said that’s alright I’m not a real policewoman.

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Quadrophenia

| Quentin Budworth

I arrive at the Raine Club in east Hull. Anna Dinsdale is waving me in. Documentary film maker Les Drake is capturing my arrival. Anna who played Audrey Hepburn in Hullywoods Roman Holiday ushers me into the club. There are  22 men and women of a certain and delightful age dressed up in their finest mod gear. The atmosphere is amazing, it’s a bright sunny morning in January but it feels like a bank holiday weekend in Brighton. Spirits are high and we know we are going to have fun.

I grab a quick cuppa and Anna starts to organise the guys and girls outside the pub, there is a lot of laughter and banter and we make these images.

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Tony Mainprize, Paul Dinsdale, Rich Brumby, Chris Murphy, Jaime Eton, Karl Knott, Ian Rimmington, Gary Cook, Paul Garmston, Anna Dinsdale, Michelle Donno Melton, Tony Clark, Reverend Andy Simpson, Thomas William Pawson,  Martin Gibbs, Jack Rimmington, Pete Jones, Brian Stubbs, Susan Sewell, Frank Melton, Jez Cooper, Pete Brown

One of the actors in Quadrophenia was from Hull his name  Garry Cooper.

Call Out for Participants for Hullywood Shoots on 19th & 21st January

| Quentin Budworth

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This weeks Hullywood photo shoot days are as follows:

Thursday 19th January 8am – 5pm
Saturday 21st January: 8am – 5pm

Shoots take about 20 minutes.

Here are the guidelines:

To book a shoot

  1. I will need the name of your film, your character, film moment and iconic Hull location
  2. You will need to get permission from the location and make any necessary arrangements if required. Book in a time with them as soon as you have a confirmed shoot with me.
  3. You will supply all costumes and props for the shoot. If you are struggling with this put a call out on facebook or try ebay or amazon.
  4. Email me or Facebook PM me when you have done this with a proposed time on one of these days and your telephone number.
  5. I will confirm time and place of shoot and see you there on the dayThat’s it. Come out to play and have fun. If I am shooting you late in the day bring cake as I often do not get time to eat on shoot days.

    Email address quentinbudworth@yahoo.com

Buzz Feed News

| Quentin Budworth

You know things are happening when your super cool teenage daughter, hi Carmina, rings you up and then your other  daughter, hi Amelia, rings you up 5 minutes later and tells you that you are the lead story on  BuzzFeedNews.

For those of you who don’t know, BuzzFeed is the leading independent digital media company delivering news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

We are the lead story this weekend in which 24  of the Hullywood Icons are featured in their piece which BuzzFeedNews

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The Stepford Wives

| Quentin Budworth

I look at myself in the mirror god I look rough, the surgery from yesterday’s op has bruised and swollen, I look like Robert Di Nero in Raging Bull or Rocky Balboa on a bad day. I’ve been doing paperwork and admin since 3am, it’s now 6am and I have an appointment to meet The Stepford Wives at Tesco’s Super Market in the St. Stephens Shopping Centre in Hull. I pack my car with the gear I need for the day, a step ladder, PA gear my laptop, bits and pieces for tonights projections at Beverley Minster and St Mary’s Church my car always untidy resembles a skip.
I arrive at St Stephens and i’m greeted by a cheery Nick Carolan, I clock the name and ask, hey Nick your not related to Turlogh are you. He smiles and says how did you know. I am a direct descendent of turlogh O’Carolan the family dropped the ‘O’ years ago. I smile Turlogh O’Carolan is my favourite composer from the Irish Tradition an 18th century blind Harper the stuff of legends and exquisite musical beauty.
I grab a coffee. I’m a little early and at 8am I go down stairs to meet Jo and her friends who are recreating a still from the  movie they look amazing strangely out of place in their 1970’s dresses and summer hats, it’s the middle of January in Hull, the year is 2017. A few early shoppers stare, Nick takes me on a recce of the aisles we choose a suitable one, full of shiny plastic bottles, the Wives have filled their shopping ful of consumer branded items. We go to the aisle a strange procession; step ladder, 70’s glamour, shopping trolleys and smiling shop manager . I climb my stepladder and we make this picture.

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The Stepford wives are: Jo Cole; Kay Gamble, Carol Johnson, Sarah Jenkins, Rachel Iveson, Melissa Brolls and Jo Franklin. They are thoroughly modern Hull women from Hull who love irony and have a great sense of humour.

Stepford Wives I salute your creativity, humour and Irony. Nick Carolan Tesco’s Manager at St.Stephens I thank you for letting us cause chaos on the soft drinks aisle early on saturday morning in Hullywood.

 

Surgery, Buzz Feed and the I Newspaper

| Quentin Budworth

I came out from surgery this morning feeling a little shaky to receive a call from BuzzFeedNews and the I Newspaper and have spent the afternoon sorting out content for these substantial pieces  both publications are big fans of the Hullywood  and the Hullywood Icons.

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Here is the link to the Buzz feed feature BuzzFeedNews

If you see me over the next week or two I haven’t been in a fight I have had what they think is a BCC (Basal Cell Carcinoma removed from near my eye – the surgeons has done a great job but I look rough.

I will be resting tonight and shooting in Hull and projecting in Beverley at the St.Mary’s tomorrow saturday the 14th. The Icons film for the Minster and St Mary’s has been edited to take into account the sensitivities of the potential audience so please don’t be disappointed if you are not include it’s not you just your props – guns knives etc.

Kelly’s Heroes

| Quentin Budworth

I’m parked up outside the gates of  Fort Paull catching up with myself, the article Hullywood Twitter genius Emma Palmer set up yesterday with inews has been published. It’s lovely and all about the Hullywood Icons.

I’m fielding texts and FB messages from 10 potential Hullywood Icons and trying to help out on an emergency shoot at 4pm in Hull for soon to be Hullywood Icon and Soul Diva Ruth Toynton.

I get out of the car and check the gates, they are locked, I turnaround and a joinery van pulls up Kristian Stephenson gets out and makes a call. ‘They’re coming to open up’ he says. I ask him why Kelly’s Heroes and he says it’s ‘one of his favourite films’, it’s also one of mine.

Gareth one of the maintenance guys from Fort Paull appears and we ask about the American World War two tank. ‘It’s gone, someones nicked it’. This raises a number of questions for me but I’m here to shoot Kristian as Telly Savalas, so I put them aside.

‘Why Telly Savalas?’ I ask,  ‘it’s my hair or lack of it’, he replies. I take my woolly hat off and look him straight in the eye saying  ‘hair is overrated’ we both laugh and find a place to do the shoot.

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Desperately Seeking Susan

| Quentin Budworth

I use the sat Nav I know Hull well. I’ve worked in the city since 1996. I’ve never been to the Humber Social Club on New Bridge Road. I pull up outside. Jo, who played Lisa Minnelli from Cabaret, is  at the door waiting for me. She waves, I grab the camera bag and go in. Sharrelle Rigg, Shazza to her friends, is waiting here she is dressed in 1980’s clothing and drinking tea. Jo asks if I want a cuppa and I say yes, strong with milk, leave the tea bag in, I like it strong.

We talk about the shoots for the Hullywood Icons. Jo and Nancy and Shazza are all good friends they meet up a couple of nights a week to go for a meal or to the pub. Jo and Nancy are already Hullywood Icons.Today it is Shazza’s turn to have her Hullywood moment.

We go into the toilets in the snug. There is a hand dryer, we look at the shot on Jo’s mobile phone and I explain that we can flip it in post production so Shazza is facing the right way just like in the movie still.  I do a couple of test shots and then boom we have it. Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan.

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We drink our tea, chatting, the phone rings, it’s James Hoggarth from BBC Radio Humberside:

“Are you free to do an interview saturday morning 8:50? Talk about the projections at Beverley Minster and St Mary’s what your shooting Madonna ? Where? What does she think of the Humber Social Club?”

I look across at Shazza she smiles and I reply: “I’ll ask her.” I pause for effect “she says the tea is great and they have spotless loos”.

Shaun of the Dead

| Quentin Budworth

My day starts very early dealing with correspondence, updating the blog and grading images. I head in to the Old Town, Hull. The weather forecast for the day is awful, it’s snowing in North Yorkshire and there is a bitter east wind in Hull.

I’m running late, I get stuck behind a learner driver, I pull over and call John Jackson apologising. I get to the Lion and Key on the Old High Street. John stands across the road taking shelter from the wind with his girlfriend in a doorway. He looks remarkably like Simon Pegg.

He takes his coat off explaining that he has already spoken to the girls in the pub and they are fine about us doing the shoot here. He also mentions that he was stopped by security guards at St Stephen’s Shopping Centre for carrying a cricket bat. He chuckles and we start to set up the shot.

It’s early and cold it takes a few minutes for us both to warm up, me shooting and John getting into character.

I get the shot and rush to pass him back his coat it is bitterly cold and he is only wearing a white short sleeved cotton shirt.

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Later on  I meet  Adie the landlord of the St John’s pub and he says ‘we’d love to do Shaun of the Dead in the pub when you’ve got time’. I think to myself I know just the man.