At the end of 2017, I decided that I would stop waiting for someone to green-light my ideas, and just go ahead and make them. I put up a call-out into my local creative community for actors, devisers and filmmakers. We gathered together to talk about making a web show that followed young people walking home from parties late at night. I was inspired by coming home after a big night, walking down my alleyway with bats streaming overhead, heading home, calling to one another. I imagined that we were calling to one another too, calling for connection, intimacy, friendship and togetherness. 

 

A ragtag group of mostly theatre actors with a lot of free time ended up meeting up for rehearsals every week, discussing the tone of the show, and improvising scenes, some of which would end up in the final product. After about 5 weeks of this, I decided we should just dive in, and try and film some of what we had. We had no fundraiser or grant money, so we borrowed, crafted and asked around for favours to get it going. In the end it was made on $300. We had no script, but we had worked out beats to hold the scenes roughly together. I told them they had to devise three scenes: one in movement, one in stasis, and one that combined these two elements. After our original DOP dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, Freya McGrath, one of the key creatives (with a background in dance and performance), took on the role as DOP. Having never before worked as a camera-person before, she then shot two more episodes, walking backwards, in the dark, keeping the moving actors in frame avoiding camera-shadow in an ever-changing nighttime environment. We think she did a pretty spectacular job! Half a year later, myself and my co-creative Dylan Murphy edited the finished product into being.
The result is the 4-part series you can watch on Youtube.

We're proud of our shoe-string budget, DIY, devised, collaborative, inclusive process, and will continue this process and work on Season 2 of Low Frequency, which is currently in development with a queer writing team. Find the trailer below and link to the full season here.