When I approached Birmingham-based film company Lightweaver
Productions with a treatment for a film noir, little did I know how it would
feel to see the results on-screen. That moment, however, would be a while
coming. First of all, I worked with Lightweaver Productions to produce a
script. We had to ensure dialogue felt natural and memorable for the actors,
delivering information that viewers needed to know. It was also necessary to
have actor and camera directions that were both effective and achievable in the
lapse of film available, which could fit within the budget constraints. Eventually,
‘Deception’ was born; a Grime-Noir thriller in which characters, and hopefully
viewers, would be deceived by the turn of events.
