» [PC] Paul Docherty, director of Heart Of Neon, as seen in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story.
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story includes plenty of video clips, with interviewees including fans, journalists and other developers as well as Jeff himself. Unlike with previous projects, Digital Eclipse partnered with an external filmmaker named Paul Docherty in order to produce this footage. “At the very beginning of this project, it was like, ‘Oh, let’s set up a meeting with Paul Docherty,’ who we knew was doing this documentary,” says Chris, explaining the origins of the partnership. “We had a meeting of, ‘Hey, you’re doing this, we’re doing this, maybe there’s a way that we can help each other out.’ He’s obviously still working on the Heart Of Neon documentary, but he had a very early, very lengthy, four-hour rough cut.
“At first, it was like, ‘We’d love to just watch that,’ because we were doing the research, I was reading the book that Jeff wrote and just absorbing everything I possibly could about Llamasoft,” Chris continues. “Once we determined what it was we wanted to do, and the schedule and the timeline of the project, it was like, rather than us trying to essentially reinvent the wheel and do these featuret tes that we were going to need for our documentary, we figured Paul has been working on this for years and years, and he’s probably got tonnes and tonnes of footage. So we approached him to see if we could work something out where essentially, he would put the featuret tes together.”