The Internet Story premiere went very well – just a cast and crew shindig at Channel 4’s little screening room. And here’s a picture of me looking pleased/smug afterwards. Thanks to those that came!
The short now has an IMDb page and is currently attacking the festival circuit at home and abroad. I’ll let you what happens!
Open Cinema
I recently did a little bit of Production Design/Animation work for Open Cinema- who run cinemas for homeless and socially excluded people, as well as make cool short films on micro budgets. My work for their latest film Heroes and Villains was premiered at BAFTA and well-recieved. Watch out for the cardboard – that’s my bit!
Before Arcadia first premiered, I managed to set aside just enough time to produce this quick little Making Of featurette, to screen alongside it. Since then, people could only catch it on the rare DVD copies- until now!
As the film was produced on a £20 note and spare time, I hope you might be interested to see how we did it. It’s a very brisk tour but covers most of the stages, and is full of interesting production shots.
Spoiler warning: If you haven’t seen all of Arcadia yet, this little doc might spoil some things. And it probably wouldn’t make much sense anyway.
Just a quick note on Internet Story: more delay I’m afraid. We’re now hoping for a December premiere in London.
I figured my posts needed a few more pictures and a little less text. Above is the latest logo for Internet Story. Check check check out the updated page for it.
Just a quick post. Was very surprised recently when my Internet Story research brought up a strangely similar -but actually real!- website. Here it is: Al1’s Nine Grand Quest.
Hmm. I’m very much considering adapting the script to include this sort of thing. I’ll let you know how it goes.
In other news, Arcadia received another strong reception, this time at the Sci Fi London Festival. It also got a rather nice write-up from the people at Vector Magazine, referring to it as “a shining example of how well an ultra-low-budget short can work”. Yeah, sounds about right! Thanks!
Arcadia will be shown at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival very soon. It’s part of the Long Shorts Programme on the 2nd of May. I’m very excited about seeing it on the big screen at the Apollo Cinema in Piccadilly Circus. Perhaps I’ll see you there?
We’re making some great progress with Internet Story, having just finished recording the vocals. We went through the lines in almost microscopic detail but we got some great performances in the end, and still finished early! Rather unconventionally, we’re doing the visuals after the audio, so we’ll be filming very shortly.
I’ve also come back from Morocco quite recently, having been out there on a shoot for a gritty action film with Pure Grass Films. Filming and editing the official “Making Of” was great fun and I was happy with how it turned out. Very much looking forward to seeing the finished film.
Internet Story Has Premiered
