Shadow Laughter is a collaboration between artists Hamish Marr and Martin Pearson. They exploit the visual language of film noir to create scenarios of mystery and intrigue. These scenarios are populated by a range of characters portrayed by the artists and occasionally by others. Episodes go out on facebook on a Thursday evening, and on this blog on a Friday. 'Viewers' are invited to leave comments which may influence or direct the forthcoming episodes. Join the adventure!
Tuesday 30 June 2015
Saturday 27 June 2015
Tuesday 23 June 2015
Sunday 21 June 2015
Thursday 18 June 2015
Wednesday 17 June 2015
Monday 15 June 2015
Saturday 13 June 2015
Friday 12 June 2015
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Monday 8 June 2015
Sunday 7 June 2015
Behind the Scenes: Driven to Destruction!
Back in 2012, we posted an episode called, 'Border Crossed, Contract Complete!' It featured photos such as these, below:
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This one above, is really our darkest hour; something heavy inside the carpet, and a bloodspill. Below, this was taken with a hand-held digital, and was unplanned. It seemed to fit with the motif we were working to.
Round about the same time, we also took these shots, with a focus on the car interior:
Below: This was perhaps the first appearance of The Hat, who has developed into one of our most popular and well-loved characters!
Anyway, three years down the line, we are looking at these images and thinking that we could do more with the car interior theme. With that in mind, we thought more about the disposal of the body, and an episode focusing on part of that process. The results can be seen in the current episode.
As luck would have it, just down the road is a former entrance to an old industrial site. It gave us a clear space behind, with just the top of the metal fence providing some appropriate texture. We backed the car in and worked fairly quickly, so as to avoid arousing suspicion.
We also had the same clothes to wear, so it was easy to become the same characters.
It's a grim task all right!
Shadow Laughter schedule:
Tuesday - trailer
Thursday, Saturday, Monday - Episode posts
Sunday - Blog
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