- waterloo film festival
- fantaspoa festival (brazil)
- gerardmer film festival
- BIFFF (brussels)
- SOPOT film festival (poland)
- Fantasia film festival
- Leeds int'l film festival
- Winnipeg animation festival
- dead channels film festival
- titanic intl film festival (budapest)
- singapore int' animation film festival
- dead by dawn festival (edingburgh)
- Puchon int' fantastic film festival
- SITGES int' catalonian film festival (Barcelona)
- The Angel Film competition
- Super Shorts Film Festival
- Exposures: new talent in moving image
- Wood Green International Short Film Festival
Saturday, 5 March 2011
updates, plans & changes
So far we have filmed 90% of the green screen animation footage for our film, we are re-shooting the 1st day of green screen filming on monday 7th as it was of a inferior quality.
after discussions with our original D.O.P. about filming shcedules and after our doctor luminal actor sally, couldnt make the shooting dates, I decided to re-arrange the live action shoot til the 31st-3rd April as we can have a fully manned sound & camera crew which would leave me with just producing, directing & animating the project (freeing me from camera work &make up). Andrew Binns, chris andrew, Simon mcgaun, Drew mastromartino, Dave reed & rachel nesbitt would be available to add to our current crew. I am hoping to persuade some photography students I know to act as stills photographer for live action.
although filming has not yet finished I am looking at styles for websites, posters & other promotional materials. the danish crime writer Jo Nesbo has an interesting website design for his bestselling novels. there is also the website for feature length animation FromInside
http://jonesbo.com
http://www.frominsidemovie.com/index.html
after discussions with our original D.O.P. about filming shcedules and after our doctor luminal actor sally, couldnt make the shooting dates, I decided to re-arrange the live action shoot til the 31st-3rd April as we can have a fully manned sound & camera crew which would leave me with just producing, directing & animating the project (freeing me from camera work &make up). Andrew Binns, chris andrew, Simon mcgaun, Drew mastromartino, Dave reed & rachel nesbitt would be available to add to our current crew. I am hoping to persuade some photography students I know to act as stills photographer for live action.
although filming has not yet finished I am looking at styles for websites, posters & other promotional materials. the danish crime writer Jo Nesbo has an interesting website design for his bestselling novels. there is also the website for feature length animation FromInside
http://jonesbo.com
http://www.frominsidemovie.com/index.html
Saturday, 26 February 2011
whats one step less than a skeleton crew?
Due to the excessive amount of 3rd year projects being shot at the moment, We have not been able to get a full crew until the 3rd March & have been forced to film with barely a skeleton crew. This has meant I have had to take on the mantle of Live-Action Director & D.O.P as well as Make up, producer & later on co-Animator & post-production sound. Andrew has took on the mantle of sound recordist & Production stills photographer (as well as later Animator). Callum has fulfilled the roles of sound recordist, Lighting artist & 1st A.D. (as well as one of the major scriptwriters)
It has been a case of working full days shooting and then going home & going through the paperwork during the early hours of the morning.
It has been a case of working full days shooting and then going home & going through the paperwork during the early hours of the morning.
Sunday, 20 February 2011
Kit booking
21st-24th Feb= 416 mic kit + Tascam DR100/ 5D Mk2 kit
25th Feb 8.30-13:00 = 416 mic + Tascam DR100 + boom pole/ 5D Mk2 kit/ Dexel Flourescent light kit, Dedo light kit, Red Head 3light kit
25th-28th 13:00- 15:30 = Blonde light kit, Z7 camera kit, 5D MK2 kit, Dexel fluo kit, dexel L.E.D
23rd-28th = manfrotto tripod
24th-28th = AKG Mic, Rode video mic + Tascam
28th- 4th March = Steadicam, cable kit, clapperboard
1st- 4th March = 416 mic kit + boom pole + Tascam DR100/ 5D Mk 2 kit/ Dedolight kit, 2 Dexel fluorescent light kit, redhead 3 light kit, manfrotto Tripod
3rd-7th March= Hague Jib Arm, Hague dolly & track, Manfrotto tripod/ 5D Mk2 kit
4th - 7th March = 416 mic kit + boom pole + tascam/ 5D mk2 kit/ dedolight kit, redhead 3light kit, 2 dexel fluorescent light kit, cable kit
AVID SUITES - 4TH-8TH APRIL 9:00 - 16:00
25th Feb 8.30-13:00 = 416 mic + Tascam DR100 + boom pole/ 5D Mk2 kit/ Dexel Flourescent light kit, Dedo light kit, Red Head 3light kit
25th-28th 13:00- 15:30 = Blonde light kit, Z7 camera kit, 5D MK2 kit, Dexel fluo kit, dexel L.E.D
23rd-28th = manfrotto tripod
24th-28th = AKG Mic, Rode video mic + Tascam
28th- 4th March = Steadicam, cable kit, clapperboard
1st- 4th March = 416 mic kit + boom pole + Tascam DR100/ 5D Mk 2 kit/ Dedolight kit, 2 Dexel fluorescent light kit, redhead 3 light kit, manfrotto Tripod
3rd-7th March= Hague Jib Arm, Hague dolly & track, Manfrotto tripod/ 5D Mk2 kit
4th - 7th March = 416 mic kit + boom pole + tascam/ 5D mk2 kit/ dedolight kit, redhead 3light kit, 2 dexel fluorescent light kit, cable kit
AVID SUITES - 4TH-8TH APRIL 9:00 - 16:00
organisationnn
I have completed the production schedule for Fracture based on availability of kit, actors & crew it can be viewed here https://www.google.com/calendar/render?hl=en&tab=wc&gsessionid=OK
I have also completed the call sheets for the next 2 weeks shoot which I will put up later
I have also completed the call sheets for the next 2 weeks shoot which I will put up later
A funny ol' week
after a good pre-production period, the start of the first shooting weekend was a damage limitation exercise.
Pearl Legay Clarke pulled out of filming on 17th Feb leaving us short a Dr. Luminal a week before her scenes were being filmed. The day after, my agreement to face cast Peter over the weekend fell through with yvonne boyle due to some misunderstanding on Yvonnes end. I was also told by majority of university staff it would be impossible to film on the university premises on the weekend. So a challenge accepted I set about to change these problems!
i asked Kiara to email a list of actors I sent her who had applied for either alice or luminal earlier. I then asked Andrew to see Peter Dillon about any actors he knew of who were of a good calibre. After A mass emailing an actor, Sally Collett replied, who we will audition (and most likely cast) on Monday.
I bought in some replacement liquid latex, rigid collodien & assorted pariphernalia needed to do a quick head cast, however I managed in the end to persuade Peter to come back up again later at the star of march to film the bulk of his scenes & to do the head cast.
I rang around the different departments of the university and managed to Beg/Borrow favours from some helpful staff members (Hazel reynolds & Brenda Arkley were heroes) managed to rent out the main Conferencing room for a pre-production meeting on Friday, rent out a room in the library & a room in Ellison building for saturday & sunday.
some of our equipment had been locked in the pre-production meeting room on friday evening, so I spent much time ringing porters to access the room. There was no access to the greenscreen we needed to use, so I had to quickly erect a greenscreen from many pieces of emerald green A1 card. We filmed some animation reference shots of peter clatworthy & then persuaded him to take the next day off & head back in March.
Pearl Legay Clarke pulled out of filming on 17th Feb leaving us short a Dr. Luminal a week before her scenes were being filmed. The day after, my agreement to face cast Peter over the weekend fell through with yvonne boyle due to some misunderstanding on Yvonnes end. I was also told by majority of university staff it would be impossible to film on the university premises on the weekend. So a challenge accepted I set about to change these problems!
i asked Kiara to email a list of actors I sent her who had applied for either alice or luminal earlier. I then asked Andrew to see Peter Dillon about any actors he knew of who were of a good calibre. After A mass emailing an actor, Sally Collett replied, who we will audition (and most likely cast) on Monday.
I bought in some replacement liquid latex, rigid collodien & assorted pariphernalia needed to do a quick head cast, however I managed in the end to persuade Peter to come back up again later at the star of march to film the bulk of his scenes & to do the head cast.
I rang around the different departments of the university and managed to Beg/Borrow favours from some helpful staff members (Hazel reynolds & Brenda Arkley were heroes) managed to rent out the main Conferencing room for a pre-production meeting on Friday, rent out a room in the library & a room in Ellison building for saturday & sunday.
some of our equipment had been locked in the pre-production meeting room on friday evening, so I spent much time ringing porters to access the room. There was no access to the greenscreen we needed to use, so I had to quickly erect a greenscreen from many pieces of emerald green A1 card. We filmed some animation reference shots of peter clatworthy & then persuaded him to take the next day off & head back in March.
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Fracture production update
as previously posted the Fracture cast is now complete, and pre-production is moving speedily!
In addition to the production crew, actors, composer & hair & make up stylist Im happy to add that we have included the services of Chris Andrew, a behind the scenes documentary director, and I have also enlisted Richard Thompson, a graphic design artist graduate from central saint martins to create our promotional materials & DVD sleeve work.
I am currently working through all the release form, & call sheet paperwork, as well as setting up the framework of a video-conference pre-production meeting through the Uni's facilities plus skype on a laptop. Andrew has managed to book equipment for our shoot from the 18th to 21st Feb after having problems obtaining lights. He has also doctored the script for camera direction in all the animated parts.
We have completed our location recce's with Andrew Binns and now have all locations confirmed.
I am using a new app for Ipods to speed up the shot storyboarding process while Im busy with other production detail. It saves on drawing out detailed storyboards and free's up time for organisation & animation concept art.
- http://vimeo.com/6125851 -
I have arranged the costume production for our film with Sue Quigley, who will help us with doctors overcoats, psychiatric patient clothing etc. for the film.
On Monday myself & the make-eup stylist Jonny will go in for a workshop session with yvonne learning how to rig up the face casting of the hermit so I can operate it like a puppet. Also I will learn about alternate methods of getting a unique semi-realist look by using prosthetics on the actors face & then animating a layer on top of that.
Jonny will be learning how to use prosthetics & make-up to superficially age a person on camera.
In addition to the production crew, actors, composer & hair & make up stylist Im happy to add that we have included the services of Chris Andrew, a behind the scenes documentary director, and I have also enlisted Richard Thompson, a graphic design artist graduate from central saint martins to create our promotional materials & DVD sleeve work.
I am currently working through all the release form, & call sheet paperwork, as well as setting up the framework of a video-conference pre-production meeting through the Uni's facilities plus skype on a laptop. Andrew has managed to book equipment for our shoot from the 18th to 21st Feb after having problems obtaining lights. He has also doctored the script for camera direction in all the animated parts.
We have completed our location recce's with Andrew Binns and now have all locations confirmed.
I am using a new app for Ipods to speed up the shot storyboarding process while Im busy with other production detail. It saves on drawing out detailed storyboards and free's up time for organisation & animation concept art.
- http://vimeo.com/6125851 -
I have arranged the costume production for our film with Sue Quigley, who will help us with doctors overcoats, psychiatric patient clothing etc. for the film.
On Monday myself & the make-eup stylist Jonny will go in for a workshop session with yvonne learning how to rig up the face casting of the hermit so I can operate it like a puppet. Also I will learn about alternate methods of getting a unique semi-realist look by using prosthetics on the actors face & then animating a layer on top of that.
Jonny will be learning how to use prosthetics & make-up to superficially age a person on camera.
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