Project Detail

Rough Cut

Name: Rough Cut
Director: Jamie Shovlin
Released: 2013
Duration: 90 mins

Synopsis

Rough Cut explores the re-making of an exploitation film that never was. At its dark heart is Hiker Meat, an archetypal 1970s slasher movie imagined by Shovlin, complete with hitchhiking heroine, charismatic commune leader and a group of teens who disappear one by one. This tantalising film-within-a-film serves to both deconstruct and pay affectionate homage to the often-maligned exploitation style.

Having created a full screenplay, score and cut-and-paste prototype for Hiker Meat, Shovlin filmed key sections and a full trailer in an intense shoot in the Lake District in summer 2013. Rough Cut contrasts these re-made sequences with on-set footage and insights into the development of Hiker Meat’s script, soundtrack and design, to create a compelling mash-up of self-referencing processes, behind-the-scenes viewpoints and time-honoured slasher tropes.

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Details

Year: 2013
Type of project: Features
Running time: 90 mins
Director: Jamie Shovlin 1st Feature
Producer: Bren O'Callaghan
Executive Producer: Sarah Perks
Editor: Adam Milburn, Jamie Shovlin
Screenwriter: Mike Harte
Director of Photography: John Grey
Production Designer: Jamie Shovlin
Sound: Adam Milburn
Composer: Euan Rodger
Assistant Producer: Marisa Draper

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Cornerhouse Artist Film

Cornerhouse
70 Oxford Street
Manchester
M1 5NH
Tel: 0161 228 7621

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Same as Production Company

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