Made by Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association (ACA) amateur filmmakers, Gus Galloway and Joe Clark, this is a dark tale about a henpecked husband and amateur photographer who plots revenge on his nagging wife during a photo shoot.  Credit: Pennyfine Films Present Title: The Inspiration Credit: With Joyce Thomas and Joe Clark Credit: Camera Gus Galloway The film opens with a still life of ‘Photo Contest’ advertisements in Amateur Photographer magazines. A man is...

Made by Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association (ACA) amateur filmmakers, Gus Galloway and Joe Clark, this is a dark tale about a henpecked husband and amateur photographer who plots revenge on his nagging wife during a photo shoot.  Credit: Pennyfine Films Present Title: The Inspiration Credit: With Joyce Thomas and Joe Clark Credit: Camera Gus Galloway The film opens with a still life of ‘Photo Contest’ advertisements in Amateur Photographer magazines. A man is thinking up an idea for a photo competition. Close-up of a magazine article about a film that won first prize in the ‘Action’ section of a competition. He is sitting at the dining room table when his brassy, blonde young wife shouts at him from the door, waving a tea towel at him.  He goes to do the washing up in the kitchen, wearing an apron. The wife now has the lawnmower out and tells him off for relaxing in the garden and reading his film magazine. He mows the lawn. She nags him to hurry up. Speeded up film of him mowing the grass follows. His wife nags him again. He mops his brow. Upstairs, the wife is brushing her hair in the bedroom and dolling herself up. Outside, the husband is sawing wood furiously (again, the film is speeded up). The wife is now painting her nails. Speeded up film follows of the husband chopping up wood for a fire. The wife carries a bowl of water outside and shouts at him to clean the windows. He begins to clean windows, not fast enough for his wife who tells him to hurry up. Speeded up film follows of the husband washing the windows. She checks her stocking seams, and goes inside. Outside, he is now polishing shoes, speedily. Inside the house, the wife is flicking through a fashion magazine as he glances at his film magazine. He picks up his camera. He gets the seed of an idea. He begins to flatter his wife, comparing her to the models in the fashion magazine she’s looking at. He asks his wife if he can try a few fashion photographs with her as a model. In the bedroom, the husband watches her as she dresses up in preparation for the fashion shoot. In the early evening, the couple leave their suburban home. She stubbornly waits beside the car door for her husband to open. They drive off. Closely-framed shots inside the car show the dash board, the wife turning on the radio, the husband scowling. He pulls up on a deserted road. There’s a quick cut to a beach. He gets out of the car and calls her over. The couple walk across a field to a cliff top. He requests a pose on a fence next to a sign warning of dangerous cliffs. He photographs her. She smiles glamorously. General view of a rocky coastline. He continues to walk, pointing to a rocky promontory where he wants her to pose. Close-up of the sign that reads “It is dangerous to approach close to the cliff edge”. He asks her to pose near the edge of a sheer cliff. He continues to take pictures, rolling waves in the background. He edges her yet closer to the cliff’s edge. She poses but he gestures her further from the camera. She complains but her vanity gets the better of her. She steps back and plunges over the edge, her handbag and shoes dropped at the cliff’s edge. The husband is gleeful when she falls. He snaps a picture of her body on the rocks below. He races back to the car, leaping for joy. Title: The End