Tunic Production

was shot over three days at Arle Court, the 19th century house at the centre of Cheltenham Film Studios.

The Production Team:


Writer/Director Simon Bovey Production Designer Bridget Dowty Composer Rochford Dyer Costume Designer Hayley Spicer Make-up Artist Max van de Banks 2nd Make-up Artist Rachel Jones Gaffer Colin Holloway Spark Geoff Holloway Grip Jim Wilkinson Property Master Andy Trenfield Floral Artist Jane Boyle Armourer Colin Digby	Director of Photography Terry Flaxton Camera Assistant Shirley Schumacher Sound Recordist Alex Christison Boom Operator Jonathan Rowley 1st AD Alison Sterling 2nd AD Kay Ransom Location Manager Val Lane Continuity Marnie Paxton Casting Director Laura Dickens CDG Stills Photographer Flo Smith Runners Matt Jones & Karl Jones


Post Production:

Editor Torquil Dearden Sound Designer & Mixer Neil Hillman MPSE Colourist Lee Clappison	Title Sequence Milton Adamou Credits Kathryn de Vries

It is one of the first independent UK drama productions to be shot on the state of the art Panasonic DVCPro HD Varicam. The results were stunning. The camera dealt effortlessly with a variety of lighting effects and conditions ranging from full sunlight to an interior lit with just two candles.

The film's design set out to reflect a Pre-Raphaelite influenced look and sensibility, and HD perfectly captured the intense colours, depth and fine detail which were essential elements in this vision.

Post production on the cutting edge iQ system at Quantel enabled editor Torquil Dearden to work with full resolution images of startling quality.

With a rich emotive music score composed by Rochford Dyer, and audio post completed at The Audio Suite, Birmingham, A Soldier's Tunic returned to Quantel for its grade and title sequence.

The intense and vibrant look that was achieved can be seen here in some of the stills from the finished film.

In addition to the funding assistance of a Lottery Award we would particularly like to acknowledge the financial and 'in kind' support of local companies and individuals in the making of the film:

Anne Handley
Kingscott Dix
Caroline Norbury at South West Screen
Blooms of Bressingham, Cheltenham
Palmsandexotics.co.uk
Nature in Art, Twigworth
Jenny Wood Antiques, Worcester
Bumbleweeds, Cheltenham

...and David Bill at CFS, who made the film possible.

Thanks also to our suppliers of:

Lighting - Eyelights
Lenses & Filters - On Sight & Films @ 59
Costumes - Flame Torbay
Firearms - Bapty
Catering - Arle Court Hospitality
Audio Post - The Audio Suite