A film by Andy Martin
Written and Narrated by Ian McMillan
Music and Sound Design by Robert Worby
Technical Assistant Tom Hadley
Camera Malcolm Hadley
3D Assistant Tom Mitchell
Performers Gwen Zayac & Kevin Power

The Wonder. The Weather. The Weirdness. The Works.

End of the Street takes the original 19th century Beaufort wind force scale and conjures a response, incrementally turning up the strangeness.

One one level, End of the Street is about language – language that builds. On another level, it's about the weather and our emotional responses. Taking the lead from McMillan’s abstraction of language, it drifts in and out of literal interpretation while maintaining the visual trajectory. The resulting film bears all the usual Andy Martin/Ian McMillan hallmarks: good story, well told, neatly interpreted with a rich montage of illustrative action.

A blend of treated live action, CGI, graphics and typography.

A film by Andy Martin
Written and Narrated by Ian McMillan
Music and Sound Design by Robert Worby
Technical Assistant Tom Hadley
Camera Malcolm Hadley
Lighting Matthew Day
3D Assistant Tom Mitchell
Audio Mixing Dave Hunt
Production Assistant Roz Howe
Performers Gwen Zayac & Kevin Power
Studio and Rigging Denis Russo

In memory of Dick Arnall

Ian McMillan has lived all his life near Barnsley, South Yorkshire. In 1981 he left the tennis ball factory to become a familiar full-time and very prolific poet, performer and broadcaster. Often tagged the Barnsley Bard – he is Poet in Residence at Barnsley Football Club – his best-known book is the powerful Dad, the Donkey’s on Fire. He has previously collaborated with Andy on the short film Messages from a Russian Heatwave.