Night Is Day Debuts

Night Is Day, produced by Silly Wee Films is a six part scifi drama which follows Jason Mackenzine, Glasgow’s first superhero, as he come to terms with his new found powers and uses them to fight crime on the streets.

Episode one deals with flashbacks to how Jason (Chris Somerville) gets his powers, including a mental change of the ability to see people’s traumatic future and a physical change which enables him to pass high powered electricity through his body (I’ve heard it said that originally this series was going to be called Mr. Volts but they went for the cooler name of Night Is Day).

It’s while Jason is being patched up by Amy (Shian Denovan), a young writer who he saved just hours earlier, he recounts to her how he came to be a vigilante, swearing to protect the innocent.

The acting is spot on, with the fight scenes looking realistic (and when watching the extras, you realise it is indeed realistic) as is the camera direction from Fraser Coull. I believe the sound effect of the electricity should be revamped - the electricity effects and overall visuals are spot on, but there’s something lacking in the sound area - if anything it’s too quiet and doesn’t really whip your ear holes to any extent.

This is certainly what could be termed as a ‘warming up’ episode, showing the background to how Jason got his superpowers and how he is gradually coming to terms with them.

As well as the lead character, it introduces the bad guys, Mr Philips and his enterage, and the good guys, Detective Chief Inspector Sloan, DCI Mullan and also Amy, who as it turns out, appears to be his protector and confident - someone with whom he can speak to frankly about the turmoils involved with his powers.

Ames is a powerful spiritual being who sees good in Jason and decides to help him when Jason searches for a way to change his misfortune - he is a powerful, intelligent and peaceful character, who perhaps, on the face of it, afflicts Jason with more problems that he had originally.

Fraser Coull (the writer and director) and his team have spawned something which could go on for a lot longer than six 15 minute episodes - and this is reflected in the thoughts during the interviews given with the cast and crew. As this is episode one, there are quite a few unanswered questions.

Accessibility to Night Is Day is easy, so you have no excuse to not watch it. Episode one is free to watch.

I will be particularly interesed to know if it will be edited into a full size film once the episodes have been completed.

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