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Unto Others – finished and in the wild

It’s been online for a few days now but for some reason I’ve only just got round to blogging about it. ‘Unto Others’ is our entry into BAFTA’s 60 seconds of fame competition, and it’s online and ready for you to give it a 5 star rating right now! Hurray!

Right now it’s just voting for fun, your votes will really count once BAFTA have chosen 5 finalists from each region, so check back after 28th of Jan and see who gets through.

Of course massive thanks to everyone involved, we never thought it would turn anything near as ‘pro’ as it did.

Thanks as well to Oli Freke of Cassette Electrik fame, for not only composing the theme music for us, but also putting a link on his band’s mySpace site and getting us loads of lovely votes.

And thanks also go to OhSkyLab, or Paul, or whatever he calls himself now-a-days for linking us up on Anglepoised.

So far the film’s going down really well and we’re getting loads of positive votes and comments, stay tuned and we’ll let you know if we get through to the next round.

I already asked you to go vote for it right?

Unto Others, in production

Oh fancy, we’re making a little film. When I say “we” I mean us, our mate Richard Johnson, a director called Chris Klockner, a couple of actors called Roy Carroll and Frank Fitzpatrick, and a crew of about 15 people willing to give up their free time to make it with us. And when I say “making” I mean we shot it during Sunday night/Monday morning in a car park in Kilburn. We’re going into edit it tonight, and once thats done then we have somebody doing CGI and grading and music for us… so it’s not done yet. But even so, we only came up with the idea 2 weeks ago in our kitchen.

Here’s the obligatory set of too many photos of the night.

The film is initially going to be entered into the BAFTA 60 Seconds of Fame competition which has a deadline of 4th January, so we’re rushing to get it all done, but it’s all on track so far. I won’t go into any real details about the plot, we’ll save that surprise for later.

As I’ve already said in a few emails, thanks to all involved and all that jazz.

Unto Others

This is a short film we originally made for the BAFTA/Orange 60 Seconds of Fame competition. The brief was to make a 60 second film with the theme of ‘Unite’. We produced, wrote, and funded the film along with another friend of ours, we also did the visual effects and animation.

Mudfest Film Festival, Mudgee, NSW – Official Selection
Short Shorts Film Festival, Tokyo – Official Selection
Foursight Film Festival, Utah – Official Selection

We Made a Snorri Cam!

We’re shooting a short film of this year’s Fangoria show, and we thought we’d have a bash at building a Snorri Cam rig from bits we have lying about. We slug a tool belt on the Boob, whacked a couple of legs from a tripod in the pockets, tied a length of webbing around his back to each leg, screwed a camera on the top with a wide angle lens… and that was it, it works and everything.

ok, “what’s a Snorri Cam?”, well it’s when you rig a camera to the actors body so it appears to float in front of them, pointing back at the actor. Some say it was invented by Icelandic photographers/film makers, the Snorri Brothers (you see what they did there with the name?). It was used a lot in Requiem for a Dream which is of course an awesome film.

Here’s some more shorts of our rig in action. Stay tuned for the final film.

Take a toke on the T-Report

Yeah you heard it right, an actual post on the T-Report, and it’s not even Christmas (yet).

Get over there now and learn all about our exciting (but ultimately ill-fated) new beverage experience: Toke™

Fangoria 07 is over

Well here we are, Fangoria ’07 is all over, a lovely time was had by all and nobody died. The show all went off perfectly (as far as you know) and there were many fine and obscure costumes.

In between taking people on a flying saucer joyride and blowing shit up, we managed to snap a few pics of the party: