The Clearance was also a ghost story. An unscrupulous man, sent by the council, is clearing out the house of a recentlty deceased elderly woman. Whilst rummaging though the old coach house he finds some medals and a soldier's greatcoat. Thinking he is alone he puts it on and wanders back into the house where he meets an unexpected, attractive visitor.
It was filmed in a friends old, victorian house over a few cold, wet weekends. Actors, yet again, were a bit of a pain - relatively minor things like not bothering to learn the script and not having a clue what the story was about. Despite this it turned out ok in the end. We entered the film in what was billed as an international film contest and was told it would be screened in cinemas across the country. Our film, along with a number of others in the competition, premiered in a local cinema so we went along to see it - let the comedy begin. First of all the organiser casually anounced he had lost our high quality avi files and that all the films will be shown in dvd format run from a laptop - ie crap quality. When we sat down to watch our precious films they were all in the wrong aspect ratio - 4:3 instead of 16:9. If you're a fat person this can be quite flattering - I think at least one actress watching herself on that big out of focus screen was well pleased with the result - I wasn't! There's more of this sorry saga to come.
