Thread: DVD OUT TODAY Young soldier film 'Broken Britain'

I am a film-maker from manchester and have been given a grant to make a short film about army life, this is a fiction film and i want to get my facts correct, so i want to speak to Officers and Soldiers that can help me make a positive, TRUTHFUL film about a soldiers life on leave after returning from conflict,

I want to give you a voice, and this will be a film i want to sit in the audience with you and watch togehter, so iam not going to Hollywood it up or make up untruths,

the film is about Honour to the civvie street family and the family within the regiment, and when a situation arises and you are given a choice, which way do you go, and how is this choice made.

If you are intreasted in helping, and proofing the script and getting involved please e-mail me at info@asha-media.com

many thanks Mark Ashmore (Director)

Who or which organisation provided the grant?

I'm dizzy looking at this:

Your State of Emergency: A Mark Ashmore Film

his hair is like some kind of 'fin' - must be a worldwide swimmer.

only pullin your leg Mark -


respond when you can as (for once) these good people sound like they might give you a chance. good luck with your project. let me know if I can help. Please try and do a good, realistic story.

nice work, thats the sort of banter i need in the script see, go watch my other films, you can find them on my wesite or www.asha-media.com , this one i just took to the cannes film festival www.yourstate.co.uk

its not a student job, grants from north west vision and media, not much only 2k, and most people will be working for free, so like i said, i make all the choices,

as for the picture, thats my blue steel look.

Originally Posted by Ninja_Turtle

Don't think we should write him off so soon.

What's the general outline mate?

This 10min short film is about 2 soliders coming back from Afghanistan after surivving a road side bomb in which 2 other best friends and soldiers where killed because the Landrover they where in was not protected properly. on leave, on the last night, after the wake, in a club, one of them wants to leave the army, the other wants revenge for his dead friends, but when Amy the girlfriend of one of the soldiers reveals she is pregnant, the soldier who vowed revenge must decide which family he will honour.

do you know what - apart from the screen full of balloons at the beginning (I thought you were hiding behind a ballon and some jelly to keep safe but realised you were showing you'd put the camera down in shock) its not too bad!!

the bloke doing the briefing in front of the over head projector is not totally unconvicing as a military type of charcter for example.

the female 'questioner' isn't too bad either! but in a different way...

exactly, thats why i need your input, so rip the idea, but expand it, thats the starting point,

constructive, to the point comments, and it can develop

what would you like to see, thats not been done already and can be made in manchester for 2k.

Originally Posted by mark1234

Originally Posted by callum13

Originally Posted by oldbaldy

I'm dizzy looking at this:

Your State of Emergency: A Mark Ashmore Film

what a load of crap, Al Quada make better films than that.

Proper sh!te, expect this film to have a student politics slant, I wouldn't trust brylcreem boy as far a jarrod could f**k him.

watch it then give your verdict, i wrote it after seeing what pol pot had done in Cambodia at S21 when i traveled there in 2005 (yes after uni :D ) and also reflects on the regime in burma and Zimbabwe, no student politics. real shit

Originally Posted by asha

exactly, thats why i need your input, so rip the idea, but expand it, thats the starting point,

constructive, to the point comments, and it can develop

what would you like to see, thats not been done already and can be made in manchester for 2k.

Can you confirm that it will be in no way anti military, there are more than enough documentarys and fictional programs that are.

Also is it going to be a PTSD grief fest?

Originally Posted by mark1234

Originally Posted by asha

exactly, thats why i need your input, so rip the idea, but expand it, thats the starting point,

constructive, to the point comments, and it can develop

what would you like to see, thats not been done already and can be made in manchester for 2k.

Can you confirm that it will be in no way anti military, there are more than enough documentarys and fictional programs that are.

Also is it going to be a PTSD grief fest?

its going to be human story, it will have elements of everything possibley PTSD if that effects the characters choices, but only if thats the truth,

i don't know what its like to fight in a war, but my cousin is driving tanks in basra and one of my best mates served in both iraq and afghanistan and is now out, so iam not going to make something that is not going to stand up as truth.