Honeytrap Production

Production 

With independent films it is all about networking and mentoring and knowing someone who knows someone is the best way in which someone is going to get a job. Rebecca Johnson is the director for Honeytrap, while watching Top girl she had decided that she wanted to work with whoever produced it and that was Sarah Sulick who became the producer of Honeytrap. David Raedeker id the director photographer of Honeytrap he was selected as the same man who had mentored Rebecca mentored him.

The main cast for Honeytrap was Jessica Sula playing Layla, Lucien Laviscount playing Troy and Ntonga Mwanza playing Shaun. They found the films cast through multiple agencies, theatres, schools, community centers and street casting.

The technologies used in the making and filming of the film is an ADE, which is an Automatic dialogue replacement that was used to record lines for the additional clarity of the sound, as there are many planes that fly over Brixton. Sound designs and grading added to the colour, brightness and saturation.

The filming was done in Brixton as Rebecca Johnsons had been filming in Brixton for 10 years working with people in the communities. She feels as though young people have slipped under the radar and wants them to feel involved in society. During the Filming of HoneyTrap a training and mentoring programme where young people will work alongside a professional crew.

The film was made mostly of funding, given to them by donations from the public and companies like the Walcot Foundation.