37. Load, schedule and Marketing scheduled.

Load videos to YouTube and DailyMotion, playlist them schedule them, then tweet and market, all scheduled for future dates and auto release.

Shades Of Bad is still a weekly 3 to 5 minute web TV series, rarely does it go over or under that, length and we have released constantly since going live a year ago.

We also have the Doris Visits travel series and are away again on another ship from this weekend where we will be filming cruise stops in Denmark, Sweden and up to St Petersburg, so we expect to come back with 7 or 8 new travel films for Doris Visits.

then we have the behind the scenes films from our features and a How To Film series which this video falls under. So, although we haven't counted, we reckon about 150 films in a year.

We now are using the scheduler more and more and that means the episodes are uploaded early and scheduled to go out at later dates.

On top of that we schedule tweets to go out on the back of those episodes and a blog to go out on the back of the tweets, then tweets on the blogs on the back of the blogs. Next we have OS TV, the operating system for TV and TV apps and Opera and Strimm..... yes, check out Doris running as a TV show. So, we can't worry about hitting deadlines, we have to deal with uploads in bulk. Eventually the plan is to have a TV channel and produce a constant output, that is an interesting future. So, when someone tells you they are making a web series and it is just three or four parts, you can see where that ambition might lead.

To keep all our films, blogs and web pages and the links thereto all listed, we keep a huge excel sheet of all the links, short links and blogs and blog's links we can make those marketing moves and also randomly blog.

Uploading is not straight forward and becomes a huge job that has to be done in a certain order and the boxes ticked. There are many little tricks that one has to deal with. like if you schedule a video to go out and save it, then you cannot add the film to a playlist. So you have to do things in the right order.

We have done two more films this week to help film makers and content owners build their channel, the first was the terrific interview Jean (Doris) did with our composer Mark Blackledge. That dos nicely to the film she made a few weeks ago about laying music cues on the episodes as she now has a library and lays her own music on as the others in the team start to plan films again.

This video is a film of Doris at the desk again, buried in wires, uploading films and marketing. It is an interesting insight into the workload and makes you realise that the filming side of film making is just a tiny bit of what you have to do.

Load, schedule and marketing scheduled ...... take a look.  Below.....

Then come back and see where the ambition of clever shooting can outstrip the limitations broadcasters have.

Enjoy the current episode of Shades Of Bad where Jean as Doris is on a ship approaching Bergen in Norway. Jean now directs and has been directing Olympian Derek Redmond, who is back in the UK in the Kitchen .... Derek is in his screen debut. (auto available from Friday is his 6th episode)

36. Doris sits with Mark Blackledge in his writing & recording studios and talks music composition for film,TV and Shades Of Bad.

Doris Interviews film music composer Mark Blackledge

Doris Shades spends the weekend with composer and orchestra conductor Mark Blackledge and his

wife Maryam. Then on Sunday morning she manages to get a very rare interview with Mark in his writing & recording studios. This adds to the blog on her web site found by clicking this text.

They talk about music composition for film, TV and Shades Of Bad as they have now done three feature films together as well as the web TV series and travel show spin off.

Actress Jean Heard has known Mark for 20 years, he has composed the music for the INDYUK films she has co produced, Freight with ICON, Bula Quo with Universal and Devil's Gate which was signed to an American company that went into bankruptcy, (which now they have back and hope to put on Amazon).

The music from Shades Of Bad helps lift the web TV show to a level way above the current web TV show, maybe other web TV shows do not consider music and sound enough. Mark's sound design in episode 13 was quite brilliant. He plays the music and breaks it down talking about the key changes and moods he produces.

Mark has now supplied Jean with a library of music cues that she lays on after each edit, but up to about episode 30 Mark did the complete sound design as well as composition.

Mark has also done other major films and TV from Nativity to many US cartoon shows some which he was never allowed to take the credit for, but that is the business and it now affords him to pick and choose what he does, sitting at the grand piano in his recording studio space which could house a mini orchestras or a large band comfortably, or on his mixing suit with screen projection on the wall opposite his desk which he also uses to remotely watch the musicians he mixes.

This is a very rare and unusual insight into film composition and Mark's methods. Good post production means better pictures. If you find the DORIS VISITS botanical gardens videos in Barbados (East Coast) and St Lucia and Tortola, his music is played throughout.

Finally as Doris has a library of music which she now lays on the dramas and the Doris Visits travel films, you can click here for a film on how she does this in the edit suit.

35. Royal Mistresses. Mistresses to British Kings, sounds like SHADES OF BAD

Mistresses to British Royalty, or Royal Mistresses just happens to be the one woman show of actress Jean Heard who plays Doris Shades in Shades of Bad. Now, she walks us round London and reveals the haunts of Royal trysts. How did we get there from Shades Of Bad?

The drama web series Shades Of Bad has won Jean Best Actress twice and is now well into season 3.

There is now a well established travel show spin off. Doris, as Jean, or Jean as Doris has reviewed cruise ships, been to many of the Caribbean stops and has videos on ski resorts. Click here for the list.

Obviously there is a travel show film on the Fjords in Norway on the list, but unlike the other travel films which are purpose shot, that is a collection of film out-takes and views from when they were shooting the Norwegian episodes of Shades Of Bad the web series which are now going out weekly. Click here for the first Norwegian show.

However, it is odd that a London based travel show ignores the jewel of London. Add the train of thought that Jean Heard has a series of five one woman shows called Royal Mistresses, it was obvious that the team should trek into London and see just where these little elicit meetings took place. Her show is booked via Jennie Storr, her agent at the famous The Speaker's Agency.

There are some fantastic surprises in the films like being allowed to film in the famous Rules Restaurant for the Lillie Langtry film and finding the table where she sat with Edward VII.

Discovering that there was a tunnel from the Drury Lane Theatre to the pub opposite for Charles II to see Nell Gwynn.

The fantastic statue of Queen Alexandra who had to share Edward VII with many mistresses, including Alice Keppel who was the great grandmother of Camilla Parker Bowles! In Edwardian high society, affairs and mistresses were more acceptable than divorce!  We visit Clarence house, once home to King William 1V, previously the Duke of Clarence who had a 20 year affair, and 10 children with Dorothy Jordan.

On top of that there is a film on Buckingham Palace and the area.

If you are not all Royalled out by then Doris, Jean, went up to Edinburgh for the Queen's 90th birthday and does a full tour of the Royal Yacht Britannia.  One of three films in Edinburgh, Doris also found a take of Lillie Langtry while in Scotland, That appears in the Lillie Langtry film.

34. Jean Heard, who was voted Best Actress for Doris, talks on shooting a web series abroad and the UK plus her travel show.

Shades Of Bad web series shooting abroad and the travel show go hand in hand.

There are many industry professionals on a cruise ship, so it is easy to find cast and shoot episodes of a web series, and a travel show. Enter Shades of Bad and Doris Visits, they both now have extensive and growing playlists.

If you have never cruised, then Doris Shades has just reviewed the Azura and given tips. The travel show is shot on the same Black Magic camera the web series is shot on, and with just as many edits and cuts, it is one of the many travel episodes in the travel show spin off now feeding back to the drama series.

On the ship the Azura, the final episode of season 3 was shot, some clips have found their way into promos even though the episode is not scheduled to go live until 2nd September. Before then, starting episode 44 (click here), Doris has been sent to Norway to collect a package, and all of that was done while on the Azura.

You will already have seen in episode 43, the arrival of new star Derek Redmond who sends her abroad. Click here to catch up.

In episode 45 I arrive in Stavanger to meet with someone and pick up a package, but I am being followed. So I am told. Leaving Wilma in the house with Drek meant that I was not required on the the UK side of the shoot so I got my first chance to direct, and after 40 episodes I felt I knew the show and was confident enough to do it. Click here for episode 45.

The best way to see the show is via the play list and if you are new to Shades OF Bad I suggest you jump in at Episode 40 otherwise you have a lot of catching up to do. Click here for the play list.

The Barcelona episodes are due to go live after the Norway episodes which run for about ten shows. Barcelona episodes were shot while on the Britannia. The ship stops for about six hours and during that time considerable inserts for two episodes were shot with Manuel Martinez, actor Gary Keates.

The tour of P&O Azura is one of our many films, please visit our YouTube channel and subscribe free.

P&O AZURA cruise ship tour and review is below at the end of this blog. In it I tour the cruise ship Azura walking through all the major features of the ship. This was done on a tour of the mirror like still Fjords in 2015 and then on a Caribbean cruise in 2016.

This adds to the many films I have of cruise stop destinations from Fiji to Barbados, and gems like Bequia or botanical gardens. These help you orientate and choose before you travel.

I have also listed the cruises, by their cruise number in playlists that contain the films of the cruise stops in order.  I wish I had started earlier as I only have stills of Asia, India and previous cruises in the Mediterranean but I am playing catch up. Next I am off to St Petersburg in Russia.

I have tried to list most of the new Caribbean season cruises with playlists on our channel, please subscribe to the channel and help circulate to those interested in cruises.

For those of you who have never cruised then I hope this helps you. The ships are all totally different so it is a case of finding the cruise you want. Within the larger ships no two people will have exactly the same experience. You can be exclusive and you can party and play.

Some people prefer a small ship, others a large ship which is more like a city.  The Azura came into service in 2010 and was named by Darcey Bussell. It has so many features you will find it hard to discover them on just one visit.

The Azura is a mid size ship that takes 6 minutes 11 seconds to stop when at 24 knots.
Normally the ship only turns at one or two degrees to correct course, but the Azura can go over to 35 degrees. She can carry 3145 tonnes of fuel and at 23.5 knots is using 260 tonnes per day.

There are 900 cabins with private balconies and a number of staterooms. It has stabilisers that go out when seas are rough.

Cruising can be a totally casual affair, buffets and never needing to dress. Or, they can be an excuse to dress up and engage in formal nights and visit the fine dining spots. Cruising can be about 'Food Heroes'. Like many celebrities they can be found visiting on some cruises and they leave their mark and menus. Select dining and fine wines are part of cruise life like dressing up for formal nights. The Atul Kochhar's Sindhu restaurant, Olly Smith's Glass House, the Epicurean experience, the Beach House and others are all mentioned. If you need more information take a look at the P&O Fine Dining page. 

With a shopping centre, medical centre, laundry, and every other facility you would need, the Azura

normally has about 1174 crew to 3000 passengers. P&O have a great web site and list many details and crew there.

Azura is a stylish ship that was built by Fincantieri in Italy, started in 2008 finished in 2010 and has a gross tonnage of 115,055 MT, its displacement is 53,967 MT. Length is 288.6 meters and width is 36 meters which is 2 meters too wide to go through the Panama Canal. The bridge is 50.5 meters wide. Deck 15 and above is made of aluminium, the decks get lighter as you go up. The heavy plant, engines and sewage pumps, propellors and fresh water making equipment put most of the weight at the bottom. Fresh water is made by 3 large evaporators that can produce 90,000 gallons per hour.

If you are thinking of a first cruise, then the Azura is not a bad choice. You can then decide if you wish to try a smaller or a larger ship, or, it's sister ship the Ventura. Here is my tour, please share.

Links for playlists are as below....

AZURA A630 there is a playlist of stops for P&O AZURA A630
AZURA A631 there is a playlist of stops for P&O AZURA A631
AZURA A632 there is a playlist of stops for P&O AZURA A632
AZURA A633 there is a playlist of stops for P&O AZURA A633
AZURA A701 there is a playlist of stops for P&O AZURA A701
AZURA A702 there is a playlist of stops for P&O AZURA A702
AZURA A703 there is a playlist of stops for P&O AZURA A703
AZURA A704 there is a playlist of stops for P&O AZURA A704
AZURA A705 there is a playlist of stops for P&O AZURA A705
AZURA A706 there is a playlist of stops for P&O AZURA A706
AZURA A731 there is a playlist of stops for P&O AZURA A731

Antigua, Barbados, St. Lucia, Totola, Miami, Canaveral, Bequia, Azores, Key West, Fiji, Norway, Mediterranean, Baltics, Canaries..... take a look....

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33. Emma Bunton asks, Blowing up Emmerdale village to Shades Of Bad, then Norway? Doris has left the kitchen !

Shades Of Bad got spiced up when Stuart went on Too Much TV. 

Doris has left the kitchen ! Shades Of Bad the UK web series arrives in Norway and it all started in Emmerdale, ask Emma Bunton.

Doris arrives in Norway but there is a problem.  Over the next ten episodes Doris is on a mission in Norway, and she starts by refusing to get a cheap flight!   If you are searching via the Shades Of Bad playlist that starts to run from episode 44.

So, Doris and the crew go walkabouts abroad with a Black Magic camera, DR70D mixer and a radio mic, small lamp and a defector. What more does a film crew need?

Derek (Derek Redmond), the man who sent her there has had a tip off that she is being followed, already! She must avoid the police at all costs, though it will not be the police who are after her.
She was meant to go to Oslo to collect a package, she has arrived in Stavanger. Someone has to travel. Either she now gets a train to Oslo, that is not going to happen, it is Doris ... or the man travels to Stavanger. Where? Exactly. Doris has left the kitchen.

Exec producer on Shades Of Bad, Stuart St Paul, first worked on the TV soap Emmerdale in 1986 because he was working on other ITV shows like Prime Suspect and (Band of) Gold in Manchester, and in Yorkshire TV on shows like Stay Lucky as stunt coordinator as well as looking after other shows including The Bill and Casualty. They had a very special need and a conference was called, infant many conferences and meetings to discuss a major change.

Emmerdale then decided to go from the sleepy Emmerdale Farm afternoon show to something bigger and the transition was to be the historic passenger plane crash into the village. To this day, and it is 2016 that is thirty years on, Stuart still has requests fto be interviewed on that topic. He was recently with Emma Bunton on Too Much TV being asked about that huge game changer that Emmerdale from afternoon soap to evening daily drama.

Though it was never admitted, one could suggest it was to recreate what may have happened at Lockerbie. He joined a team of three to plan the action. The rest is history, he stayed at Emmerdale as an advisor to the show right up until Bula Quo in 2012 winning many awards for Best Episode, Best Exit etc... That was 26 years as a creative advisor to the show.

So the cruise link is that Emmerdale posted Stuart to a cruise ship as a celebrity guest to talk about the action he put into the show. That was a Fred Olson ship and he and Jean (Doris) both loved it. Though they never thought we would like cruising, wild horses would not have dragged them to sea for a holiday, they had a great time. Now they both appear as guests on many ships, 'Doris', has just done a tour and review of the AZURA. It has spawned a travel series which they wish they had started years and years ago.

Stuart started his career as a compare, radio broadcaster (hence the connection with James Whale and his appearance in the show) so he has no problems taking the stage and talking. As he has no shortage of great stills with huge stars like Van Damme, huge action plans from some of the biggest films and stories from working on Mrs Brown's Boys to horrors like Chucky, Superman, Aliens and three Bond films he puts on a great show.

Jean is now directing Shades Of Bad since Buster left, and the Norway episodes are the start. Her being abroad meant that she was not required when shooting in the UK and that was when Buster got a movie, so Jean naturally helped and directed Derek Redmond.

The first episode that goes abroad is 44. Click here to go there. Please subscribe to the channel and share and tweet. @shadesofbad

32. New black actor could be mega star - Derek Redmond in Shades Of Bad

New black actor could be mega star - Derek Redmond in Shades Of Bad

There is nothing more exciting than discovering talent !

Stuart St Paul met Derek Redmond on the 'after dinner speaker's circuit ', where they have both often been on the same bill. The two have became friends.

When Stuart suggested that Jean was looking for an actor to play a complex part and they both thought he would be perfect, Derek was interested.
The rest is now history.

Derek is an Olympian, won the Men's 4x400 metres event at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan and 400m with team mates Roger Black, Kriss Akabusi and John Regis. St Paul had already worked with Akabusi on the TV show 'Do You Want A Smack'. So there was even more common ground. It is funny how this really is a small business and the players have long and inter tangled roots.

Explaining the part was not easy because Redmond appears as a bad guy, the kind who would kill anyone, but, he is there to save Doris from someone even worse. To say more would give too much away, but Derek, playing Drek, sends Doris Shades to Norway to collect a package and waits for her at home with the annoying Wilma.
(Click this para for Derek's first episode.)

These international sports stars have charisma, they have something special which is why they make such great presenters and panel show guests.

They already live the life of strange hours, world travel, TV cameras, panel shows and being under the press microscope at every move.

However, as celebrities, guests and keynote speakers they are plied with more bucks than actors are thrown, so it was the friendship that swung the deal and the fact that as it was a web series  his contribution could be shot around his very busy calendar.

Even then he often arrived late from another engagement, had to leave for an engagement, and while there Sky Sports were sending a satellite unit to the set to have him go live into the news. Shades Of Bad was a perfect fit as all the players have other engagements, but it did make scheduling a little bit of a challenge.

Stuart confirms that these were the first episodes that actress Jean Heard directed, purely as she was not in the UK in the story and as such was without a job while they were to film, and Buster Blackledge had gone off onto a movie.

Jean's Norwegian sections had been shot ages ago, long before Derek was cast, which to some extent sadly locked the flexibility of the script.

However it has all been made to work and series three ends with him able to come back for another season should he want to, however, the reality is that season 4 will no doubt start shooting around the time the Rio Olympics are on and Derek will be busy as a commentator or expert on a TV network somewhere round the world.

Research, here are a number of films you can click on to see what is going on

Click here for the 2016 trailer with Derek in, long before the episodes were cut, but it is a good taster.

The very first episode Derek appears in, click here. They then follow on each week.

This is the very first time Derek has acted, so let's share and tweet.... maybe it is the start of something.

Click here for the full Shades Of Bad playlist. Derek starts in Episode 43, if you want to jump in somewhere, episode 40 is not a bad place to start.

Since Norway, Jean has started a Travel Show spin off, DORIS VISITS, click here for the whole playlist. 
But click here for the cuts of Norway cobbled into a travel show episode, whilst not in the normal Doris Visits style gives a little of what was going on. All this was shot before Derek was cast.

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31. CAT FIGHT - it was bound to happen, Doris and Wilma fight. Is she dead.

Wilma has killed Doris, what next? –  Episode 42, Season 3.

It was bound to happen, not just because Doris and Wilma are literally at each others throats, but because the executive producer who funded the show is a world ranked stunt coordinator with endless serious credits and awards. However, Stuart St Paul, has little to do with the filming of the show. He invested the money and his scripts were adapted to two women in a kitchen. 

Now on Season 3 there is a point where they have to fight, and he called a number of the stunt women to come in and arrange the fight but they were all too busy. Stunt women, compared to their male counterparts never stop working. One was in Hungary on The Martian, her sister was abroad, and others of Stuart's regular team were also working. There are so few stunt women compared with stunt men which is amazing when you think many women come into the industry through dance and gymnastics ... still that is another story.

In last week's episode Wilma has thrown Doris to the floor,  left her for dead and plonked the chainsaw firmly on the kitchen table. She goes for Doris’s purse where Doris keeps the gun in order to finish her off, but there is no gun. Doris had been bluffing. Wilma is therefore not able to coldly put a bullet into Doris to conclude the evening. (episode 41).... but before the end of the season one of them will have to go!

Here in episode 2 of season 3, Wilma looks down and sees Doris is dead, Doris hit her head on the tiled floor as she fell.

“Sorry, Doris’. Wilma says, then changes her mind.  “No", she reconsiders, "I’m not.  Bitch”.

The question now; will Wilma cut Doris’s body up with the chain saw like Doris just cut up the dead body of the councillor?  Maybe, but the recycling bin is already full with one body.(Episode 40)

We have to thank Breaking Bad for making that word so fashionable, ‘Bitch!’ But Wilma had just about had enough of Doris and it was coming, though unexpected. However, expect the unexpected with Shades Of Bad.

Sure, Wilma started the problem in Season 1 by sleeping with Doris’s husband, then not understanding that if she took the man she should also take the mother-in-law. How Wilma ever remained friends with Doris is played out in a twisted needy relationship over the first 40 coffee break episodes of Shades Of Bad.

Doris might just not be dead yet ..... cat fight. The younger director had ambitions of a Jean Claude Van Damme fight, for his showreel no doubt, but that would have been out of character. The cat fight is in character as should every word of the dialogue, be which is why your stunt coordinator is so so important a choice Stuart tells us. Take a look at some of his credits by clicking here.

The showcontinues to get darker and more ambitious as new stars and new locations in new countries line up for the next few episodes. Shades Of Bad is getting alittle grittier, which could be said to be more in keeping with the type of product INDYUK FILMS is known for. Stuart St Paul has just released the book of the movie FREIGHT in novel and Kindle form on Amazon. If you are in the Kindle library you can download it free. That film won awards worldwide and Stuart won Best Director in the USA. It is a hard hitting story of sex trafficking in the UK centred on a turf war in Leeds between a local heavy and an Eastern European gang.  Click here for the Kindle.

If you never saw Freight, it is a movie they made for ICON Entertainment. Jean Heard who plays Doris, then played Billy Murray’s wife and their daughter played by Laura Aikman was stolen. 

The film was made before 'Taken' and stayed quite a long time in post as the distributors made changes then found a slot for it, or were they waiting for Taken to be released and ride on the back of it?  Either way Freight is a very gritty film, and Shades Of Bad is just about to get mucky.

Above right is Natalie Anderson who won a role in Emmerdale after the performance in Freight. Stuart worked on Emmerdale as a creative head for 26 years. To the left, Danny Midwinter won Best Actor seen here with the Berlin prize winner as rising star, Zsolt Nagy.

If you go to our channel (click here) there are playlists of some of the companies work and Freight cast interviews and clips are now there.

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Shades Of Bad has to date been a coffee break series, three minutes to watch on the go and its viewer base has got used to the short cliffhanger episodes. However, at the start of the playlist is a new beginning if you wish to start from the very beginning; 5 of the episodes are cut together to make an 11 minute episode. Click here for the playlist (or find it via the channel).

Our suggestion is go to Episode 40 and start there, that is the racier material, then 41 and this weeks 42. If you just want the cat fight episode 42, then it is below.

We would love to hear your comments about which format you prefer, either as comments on the film or via the website www.shadesofbad.com