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Lauren Ashley Carter as Martha Swales investigates strange happenings in her hotel room.<\/p>\n

Once Bitten… director Pete Tomkies drew his storyboards before the set was built but thanks to our dedicated construction crew it all came together in time to be expertly lit & photographed by our cinematographer Mat Johns #<\/span>horror<\/span><\/span> #<\/span>supportIndieFilm<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Once Bitten… director Pete Tomkies’ original storyboard for this scene<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lauren Ashley Carter as Martha Swales investigates strange happenings in her hotel [read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.duck66.com\/OnceBitten\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-14-02-02.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":994,"url":"https:\/\/www.duck66.com\/OnceBitten\/2017\/06\/15\/who-is-martha-swales\/","url_meta":{"origin":1038,"position":0},"title":"Who is Martha Swales?","date":"15th June 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Director Pete Tomkies had a great meeting tonight with our Martha Swales - look out for the big reveal soon!","rel":"","context":"In "Production Diary"","img":{"alt_text":"Director Pete Tomkies had a great meeting tonight with our Martha Swales - look out for the big reveal soon!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.duck66.com\/OnceBitten\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2017-06-15.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1134,"url":"https:\/\/www.duck66.com\/OnceBitten\/2017\/07\/28\/day-2-of-filming-is-a-wrap\/","url_meta":{"origin":1038,"position":1},"title":"Day 2 of filming is a wrap!","date":"28th July 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We have wrapped day 2 of Once Bitten... which was the first day of filming on our purpose built hotel room set at A4 Studios in Altrincham. 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