Two week crash-course: filming Misfits (Channel 4)

I am a better actor for the time I spent on the Misfits set this past two weeks. It's as simple as that.

Wayne Yip and Alex Garcia are two fantastic directors who really let me play with my character and try a myriad of scene interpretations, subtle nuances and shadow moves. I really let go and I'm so excited about it.

Like all good things, this has come to an end and I'll miss the people and the screen times. But onwards and upwards! Here's to more exciting projects with other cool people.

I love my job. Not many people can say that :) I am one of the lucky ones...

Location:Richmond, UK

Grenade Cam: filming A TV show - with guns!

What a week I have had. I began filming a special episode of a well-known TV series.

I can't tell you too much about my character without giving anything away but the techniques that have been used on set have been world class. Grenade cam, gun fights and exploding glass; armourers, pistols and exploding squibs. It was weird firing blanks and seeing things explode; it felt like we were doing all the damage ourselves. Very authentic. And very cool. It was like playing with the most expensive toys money can buy. It was every boy's dream!

But the character I play is such a dreadful person, it's great fun to play him. Being a villain requires a level of letting go of everything that is nice and wholesome in the world. Imagine accessing what you really wanted to say to the man in the pharmacy queue; or what you'd want to do to him. It's not for the faint hearted because we as humans have great potential for doing really bad things.

Next week is going to be darker for my character but me, I'm going to be the boy playing with the expensive toys again, trying not to eat too many chips in the catering truck :)

Location:London

New website!

I've just been through the process of commissioning a new website and I've been confronted with so many decisions in the process:

• How much information?
• The order of information - what's most important?
• Who is my audience and what do they want?  I wanted to make it super quick for them to get to key information about me.
• Where do I host audio and video files? Do I surface them on my site from other CDNs like YouTube, AudioBoo, SoundCloud and Flickr?
• Where do I host my website so that it will open quickly and perform well?
• What file formats for video and audio will play on all devices - from laptops to iPhones?
• What social media items do I include - since I'm active on many!

It's a minefield!

I'm happy to say that I went through this process and we've come out the other side.  

Let me know what you think: www.glennspeers.com