After popular demand, I’ve put together a guide on how I made my gaffer tape wallet. It’s a ten step program to geek wallet heaven. Please let us know how you get on in the comments. Cheers and that.
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Brand new bag, I mean wallet
After the unspeakable damage America did to my wallet, I thought I’d design and build a new one. First stop, some grand A gaffer tape from here. Then, after the giddy waiting on the doormat for the tape to arrive (check out the pimp fluorescent orange reel above) , I set about the artistry that is Gaffer Tape Construction. My last wallet was a home brew gaffer wallet, and lasted about 3 years. This one is even better built, so should hopefully out live me.
Definitely too many photos
So, we’re back in Blighty. Just spent that last 4 days tagging and titling all our photos on Flickr. I’m not going to tell you how many photos are on there, but from that 4 day time frame, you might presume there’s a lot; and you would be right. Please go have a peek. We’ve added some handy short cuts to help you find just the bit you’re looking for, so you really don’t have any excuse not to look. Still here? Go look already!
Waiting for Gorgo, set build and shoot
The shoot for the film we were working on at Elstree Studios finished last weekend (we did the graphic design and helped with the set build), and we’ve just got all photos together of the final set build and shooting for you all to see. It all turned out looking quite splendid.
28 Days (in one day)
Well we’ve been threatening it for a while and this Saturday we finally did it, we made a video for our mates Cassette Electrik for their track ’28 Days’.
OK, when I say ‘we’ I actually mean me n jas trotted about telling people what to do while some jolly nice people did most of the hard work. One of which people was Peter Allibone who shot and lit the whole thing amazingly, no really, he did a bang up job and added loads of ideas that we can take the credit for later. We also had the unlimited help of make-up artist and stylist Wendy Oliver, who was supposed to leave a good few hours before she finally did (cheers for that Wendy – by the way, how do you remove that pink make-up?). Of course mum made too much food, but that’s what mum does, and dad let us invade his garage again. And the band jumped about, stood still, took half a pace to the left, no a bit more, back a bit, now a bit more to the left…etc.. without hitting us too many times.
We now have the simple task of editing nearly 5 hours of footage into a 4 and a half minute clip. How hard can it be? See you in a few months.
As usual, too many photos of the shoot can be found here
ooo haven’t you grown?
Nathan McLaughlin (a lovely special effects make-up guy working on our little movie this weekend) sent us these images of the finished clay sculpt of an 80 year old Neil Edmond (our lead actor). The boy done good me thinks. Very good maybe? He’s right now making a silicon do-hickey thing from this mold that he then has to punch a gazilion holes in it to hand place each and every hair, which an 80 year old’s face is not too short of.
Head cast
We’re directing a short film written by Richard Johnson called ‘All the Time in the World’. We shoot it in a few weeks and today we sent our star (Neil Edmond) off to Brighton to have our make-up special effects guy (Nathan) pour goo all over his pretty head to make a full head cast. How cool is that? Proper ‘Makings of Thriller‘ stuff.
Meanwhile you can see Neil in Contains Violence (until 10th May) which we’ll be checking out next tuesday, see you there.
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.