Dirty Magnum

Another month, another movie.  For March we've got something a little bit different: an attempt to recreate the opening titles of  Magnum Force in my front room.  Happily, this one turned out better than I expected.  The indoor shooting resulted in low light levels and grainy footage - I had to keep the blinds down as I couldn't risk passers-by seeing a man holding what looked like a revolver and calling the police - but despite the low resolution, it still looks OK.   The music might not be by Lalo Schifrin (as in the original), but Kevin McLeod's royalty free theme (available from incompetech.com) conveys the right tone of seventies cop show urgency. The credits are, of course, entirely fictional (apart from the music credit, obviously), with the style of the director's credit intended to echo the way Don Siegel signed his late films.

The stuff after the titles is simply some unused footage I shot driving around the streets of Crapchester, it is there for the sole purpose of giving the main part something to be the titles to.
The gunshot sound effect is actually a .50 Barrett rifle, rather than a .44 Magnum - it sounded more impressive - whilst the cocking sound is a slowed down and amplified sample of a Ruger .357 Magnum being cocked. The Model 29 Smith and Wesson .44 Magnum in the film is, I hasten to add, a plastic model.