May 28th, 2009 1 Comment Tags: film · short · unto others · virgin
You’ve probably already seen this, but now it’s in the Virgin Media short film competition. If we win it we will be become the richer than our wildest dreams and shall eat peacock eggs for breakfast. So rate it 5 shiny stars and we’ll give you 7 million pounds each if we win*.
*actually we won’t, [...]
March 5th, 2009 3 Comments Tags: festival · film · new england · tokyo · unto others · utah
Film festival selections seem to be like buses, you wait ages and now 3 of them have come round the corner at once. Yey! Our 60 second short ‘Unto Others‘ has been accepted into the official selection of 3 international film festivals:
Foursite Film Festival, Utah
Short Shorts Film Festival, Tokyo
Mud Fest, New England
It’s being screened tonight [...]
May 13th, 2008 1 Comment Tags: all the time in the world · editing · film
Now the dust has settled, the cameras have been returned, the plates have been washed up… we begin the editing. So far, all going really well. The very rough edit seems to hold together. This movie making gig is a lark. Also, it’s first real test of our new rig. It’s almost as powerful as [...]
May 6th, 2008 2 Comments Tags: all the time in the world · film · production · shoot
Well we did it, and it wasn’t that painful at all. 24 hours of shooting in 2 days, about 300 cups of tea (plus the relevant cakes) and the help of some lovely people (no, really, they were lovely) we done shot a lil’ a movie in our garage. It went pretty much to plan, [...]
April 30th, 2008 No Comments Tags: film · make-up · nathan McLaughlin · neil edmond · special effect
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 [...]
April 22nd, 2008 1 Comment Tags: film · make-up · neil edmond · special effects
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. [...]